I AM A DANCER 2020

For the company's milestone 50th ANNIVERSARY SEASON, Felice Lesser Dance Theater premiered its “live documentary” I AM A DANCER 2020, an interdisciplinary work focusing on how dance workers navigated the Covid pandemic. Performances took place at New York Live Arts, June 26-28, 2025.

Conceived, Written, Choreographed, and Directed by FELICE LESSER

Lighting Design: JOHN SALUTZ

Graphic Design: JONATHAN BURKHARDT

Photography: GERRY GOODSTEIN, STEVEN PISANO

Music: DAVE AUGUST, J.S. BACH, JOHANNES BRAHMS, RICHARD EINHORN, G.F. HANDEL, FELICE LESSER (sound collage), ALESSANDRO MARCELLO

Production Stage Manager: MACKENZIE TROWBRIDGE

Live Cast: MACKENZIE ALLEN, JUSTICE JACKSON, AMINA KONATE, KRISTIN LICATA, HELOISE PONSONNET; ZOOM Video Dance: STEPHANIE (LYON) ALBANESE, ANDREA KRON; Additional Video Interviews: MELANIE ADAM, NINA DEACON, TAYLOR GORDON, NATHANAEL PROTOIS; Cameos: LYNN ANDLAUER, LORETTA (DODD) MILLER, PAULA VREULINK, DEBRA ZALKIND

(Choreography included a collaborative process with the dancers; text included filmed interviews with the dancers.)

TRAP IST

"...Felice Lesser’s Trap Ist is an important new work that really needs to be seen widely, and by multi-generational audiences... Her work deserves our attention."

-- Lisa Jo Sagolla, THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST, December 19, 2022

TRAP IST is Felice Lesser's multi-media, science fiction fantasy about enslaved humans who revolt against their A.I. captor on a distant planet.

Conceived, Written, Choreographed• and Directed by FELICE LESSER

Artistic Design, Sets & Animation by JONATHAN BURKHARDT

Music: BORUT KRZISNIK, STEFANIA DE KENESSEY, RICHARD EINHORN

Interactive Technology: LORNE SVARC (Technodramatists)

Lighting Design: EMILY CLARKSON

Production Stage Manager/Sound: MACKENZIE TROWBRIDGE

Cast: ZOE BADOVINAC and MIKALLA ASHMORE, ROCKA JAMEZ, AMINA KONATE, SHANNON MC CON, KHADIJAH MUNAJJ, NATALIE STYS, JOSEPHINE WOKURKA

•Choreography includes collaborative process with the dancers/Krump solo material choreographed and performed by Rocka Jamez

World Premiere: December 1, 2022, New York Live Arts, New York, NY

Photos above: © 2022 Gerry Goodstein

LIGHTNING

Choreography & Projected Video: FELICE LESSER

Music: BORUT KRZISNIK

Lighting Design: MATT MILLER

Cast: KATHERINE FILES, CHANMEE JEONG, CHIHWAN KIM, ACEE FRANCIS LAIRD, DANIELLE SHUPE, DONA WILEY

LIGHTNING reflects on some of today's most important issues: borders, global warming, equity, inclusion, racism, terrorism, technology, artificial intelligence, and the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Premiere: February 8, 2017, The Duke on 42nd Street, New York, NY

Photo of Breakthrough (Global Warming) © 2017 Gerry Goodstein. l-r Acée Francis Laird (on floor), Kat Files, Chihwan Kim, Danielle Shupe, Dona Wiley, Chanmee Jeong