Repertory

Repertory
30 Second Trailer View Video Clip	The Soldier's Tale (2011) Vaudevillian spectacle and drama are served up through vibrant physicality in this danced-through production, with Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects and Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. In presenting a fresh version of The Soldier’s Tale, choreographer/director Jody Oberfelder places this post-World War I story—originally a Russian folktale—in a modern world. The dramatic trajectory of the tale is conveyed through acrobatic physicality of the characters and the distinct storytelling of the narrator. *Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale* was performed on June 9-11, 2011 7:30pm at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, with live music by Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. Jody's adaptation of the C.F. Ramuz text has been approved by Schirmer Publishing. This updated script and production is available for touring.
View Video Clips	Sung Heroes (In Progress) This quartet places each dancer in a cinematic lens, working through their own -- and others' -- emotional narratives to connect to the superhero within. Using movement to recreate these larger than life dramatic moments, dance becomes the universal source material for extraordinary, superhuman events as well as an ordinary everyday existence. Each performer ultimately sheds light on both the strong-willed and vulnerable aspects of their own humanity.
View Video Clips	Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects Reel See a sampling of the dynamic and physical choreography of Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects!
View Video Clips	Heads or Tales (2010) 20th Anniversary Season An eccentric retrospective celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects. Careening from the epic to the mundane, re-visited dances include excerpts from Oberfelder's Head First, a crash helmet dance, and the tender Rock Me Mama danced by new mothers and their babies, along with original cast members and their now-teenage children. Also featured are the hilarious and perky X-Cheerleaders, the fantastical The Story Thus Far (based on Grimm Fairy Tales), clips from Dido & Aeneas and much more.
View Video Clips	Rock Me Mama A dance for mothers /dads and their offspring... Excerpt of Rock Me Mama lyrics by Tine Kindermann and Jody Oberfelder: Who are you, Who will you be And who am I, Now that we're we Cling with your heart, Fall onto my skin Soften against me, I let you in
View Video Clips	Approaching Climax (2009) teases the extraordinary out of ordinary encounters. By exploring the emotional intricacies of mundane, physical engagements, Oberfelder questions the nature of narrative and the mysteries of social arousal. Media design by Design Brooklyn. Costumes by Liz Prince.
View Video Clips	Dido & Aeneas (2008) In this updated interpretation, Dido and Aeneas are a modern celebrity couple torn apart by the media machine. In a parallel visual narrative, tabloids expose and contribute to the buildup and dissolution of their relationship. Featuring eight dancers, chamber orchestra, six vocal soloists and chorus, Oberfelder's contemporary piece examines, through the prism of fame, universal themes of love and fate. Commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, this piece premiered at LaGuardia High School for Music, Arts, and the Performing Arts.
View Video Clips	Moved (2003) Moved is set to pop songs by Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, mines the emotion of love with all its flip-sided facets.
View Video Clips	Heavy / Light (2007) Heavy Light addresses life's tragic/comic dichotomy in movement metaphors of lightness and heaviness. This work is inspired by Horace Walpole's quote, "Life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel."
View Video Clips	The Title Comes Last (2007) In The Title Comes Last, the performers travel from a bland work-a-day world into a land of vibrancy, making sensuous connections along the way. Through their quirky quest, which references the senses, the dancers transform from the inside out.
View Video Clips	LineAge (2005) LineAge is a suite of short dances, rendered in audaciously physical and verbal wit, that plays with concepts of lines, age, and evolution, from tabula rasa to wrinkles.
View Video Clips	The Story Thus Far The Story Thus Far (2002) is a work inspired by stories of the Brother’s Grimm.
View Video Clips	Tangram Tangram (2003) is modeled on puzzle pieces, is a dance that investigates abstract relationships.
View Video Clips	Landmarks of Dreams Landmarks of Dreams(2004) was inspired by the art of Marc Chagall, blends day and night dreams with images of wanderers, refugees, animals, acrobats and lovers.