The Corduroy Prayer (2009)

Three excerpts, 5'40"
75-minute theater-poetry-dance based on 11 of the 36 classic 'dramatic situations': Supplication, Enigma, Fatal Imprudence, Crimes of Love, Remorse, Erroneous Judgment, Madness, Disaster, Conflict with the Gods, Daring Enterprise, and An Enemy Loved. With an athletic approach to the voice, image-laden language, and movement as set changes for each scene. Featuring three parallel universes. Performed at Halbritter Theater at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA.

Chase Scene (1984)

Excerpt: Ladder Dance, 5'3"
Collaboration with video artist Terry Moyemont, and with actor Tom Cayler. Live and pre-recorded video intertwines with performance. About relationship between cameraperson and performer. And how juxtaposition of performers and pictures invokes memory, time and death. And about human responses to technology.

"I am in love with the ladder piece. I watched it time and time again. So beautifully plotted and executed. A journey for the mind in movement medium." Mary Overlie, creator of Viewpoints

Performed worldwide at Danspace Project, NYC, Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY; Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY; University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana; American Center in Paris; Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, and a UK/France tour at The Place in London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; University of Warwick; Midland Group, Nottingham; Arts Centre, Hexham.

Delicacy (1996)

Excerpt: 2'53"

A collaboration by Skura & performers Lionel Popkin & John Dixon. Two naked men covered head-to-toe with wet paint -- primary yellow & primary blue -- have a brief encounter, & proceed on their diagonal paths, leaving colored pathways on the floor & green patterns on each other. Performed at Seattle's Freehold Theater.

Cranky Destroyers (1987)

First Movement, 8'

Second Movement,10'

Third Movement, 14'16"

33 min. high-energy dance for six set in unlikely ways to Beethoven's Symphony #5. About a society of strong individuals moving forward together. Choreographed with & for its original cast: Benoit Lechambre, Brian Moran, David Rousseve, Margery Segal, Stephanie Skura, & Debra Wanner. With costumes by Baltimore phenomenon Laure Drogoul & lighting by ML Geiger.

Premiered at P.S. 122, NYC. Performed worldwide, including Lincoln Center, BAM Opera House, Pepsico Summerfare, Central Park Summerstage, Joyce Theater, NY; Intermedia Arts Center, Huntington, NY; Group Motion, PA; MoMing Arts Center, Chicago; Casa de Serralves, Porto & Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon in Portugal; Tanz '90 at Secession Theater, Vienna; Petofi Csarnok, Budapest; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; Bates College, ME; Bagley-Wright Theater, Seattle. Commissioned & performed by D-9 Dance Co. of Seattle, 1994-95.

Travelog (1986)

Excerpt: Spam Island, 1'17"

Intentionally tacky 'commercial' rudely interrupting this performance-with-video. About traveling & the experiences, dreams, emotions, anxieties, & revelations that traveling elicits.

Performed at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; New Performance Gallery, San Francisco; Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY; Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

Quack Pianist (1979-84)

roof, San Francisco Art Institute, 9'27"
piano moving by Ed Gong, Part 1, 7'53"
piano moving by Ed Gong, Part 2, 9'27"
A dance-music performance about a life-long relationship with the piano, featuring manual electronic music. Performed in NYC in various permutations at The Kitchen, WOW Festival, Ear Inn, Cunningham Studio, Club 57, Theater for the New City, NYU Guest Artist Series, Stonybrook College Experimental Theater Festival, 20 N Moore Studio, Charlemagne Palestine's Studio, and in many video adaptations by Terry Moyemont.