Commission Jody Sperling to create a new work for a student ensemble or repertory company. Choreography draws upon ecokinetics processes and may employ Fuller-style costuming. Provides a potential opportunity for collaboration with faculty or resident composers, musicians and designers.

Performed by dancers wielding enormous white costumes, this work visualizes global wind patterns which are changing dramatically along with the earth’s climate. The dance integrates sound, movement, and airflow with the dancers shaping swelling gusts and subsiding breezes in cascading rhythms. Pictured: Montclair State University students

Radically transformed by costumes fashioned from hundreds of repurposed plastic bags the dancers appear as plastic monsters frolicking and foraging in their habitat. The dance creates a surreal spectacle while provoking contemplation about the beauty of what—and who—our society throws away. “a folk dance for the 21st Century,”—Dance Enthusiast

Inspired by Jody Sperling’s experience dancing on sea ice, the work expresses the fragility and dynamism of the Arctic. “Ice Cycle is an unusually beautiful vision suggesting, at times, the effects of global warming, encompassing Sperling’s environmental concerns as well as her choreographic and design mastery.” Dance Tabs. Pictured: Brenau University students

This work distills patterns of air disturbance into kinetic sculptural forms. The music, composed by Quentin Chiappetta, creates a dynamic aural architecture that the choreography navigates with spiraling vortices and rippling waves. Staged for Fordham/The Ailey School and Hofstra University