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Awaiting Your Instructions

Exploring energetic imbalances and equilibrium, game- and task-based scorework, and the reality of entropy in durational processes to investigate the complexity of individuality within systems of cooperation.
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Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Kyle Ayers
Live Accompanist: M Denney
Stage Manager: Mariana Tejeda
Costume Designer: Juliana Waechter
Dancers: Kathleen Belz, Leilani Carreno, Audrey Michaels, Katelyn Olson, Emily Pyburn, Zander Sullivan, Brittlyn Taylor, Aubrey Vantiger
Performed December 1, 2, and 3, 2022 at Space Place Theater (Iowa City, IA)
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Absentee Cities

Exploring the new and universal.  In collaboration with poet NAGAE Yuki.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt

Performed October 15, 2022 at "can I trust" International Writing Program X Dance Event at Space Place Theater (Iowa City, IA)

Like the End and the Way

In collaboration with composer M Denney​ and saxophonist Eugene Ryoo.

Choreographed and performed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Lauren Linder

Performed for the Society of Composers Iowa 24 + 24 Hour Concert on September 11, 2022 at Voxman Concert Hall (Iowa City, IA)
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​Insubmission

In collaboration with writer Luíza Fazio of The University of Iowa's International Writing Program and her upcoming screenplay.

Choreographed and performed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Lauren Linder

Performed for The University of Iowa's International Writing Program and Department of Dance Collaboration Concert on April 21, 2022 at Space Place Theater (Iowa City, IA)
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... nature takes its course

A bunch of scores that kind-of-sort of go into each other.  View the full work here.

Performed by: Maddison Bulman, Soraya Cohen, Cearra Crosser, Ellie Daley, Emily Gumal, Kyleigh Harm, Danielle Luettel, Emma Tews, 
Lexi Timmerman, Emily Trapnall, Brady Van Patten, Maya Villanueva

Excerpt performed on December 10, 2021 at the End of Semester Event at Halsey Hall (Iowa City, IA)
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Photos by Alex Bush

I wouldn't do a battement

A brief duet exploring what it is to be unmasked in a studio with (or without) a baby bump.
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Choreographed and performed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Meredith Stapleton (and her in-utero baby)

Uploaded on August 4, 2021 on Instagram (online)

About Time

... About resistance, about the ways time impacts us, and how we impact time...
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Choreographed and performed by Katherine Kiefer Stark and Sean Thomas Boyt (The Naked Stark)

Shown on July 24, 2021 at the Poor People's Army Garden Party (Philadelphia, PA).

My Pace​

A dance that's possible.

Performed by Darrius LeGrand Gray II, Allie Recht, Emily Trapnell, Grace Wilson

Zoom facilitated by Sean Thomas Boyt.

Presented on May 10, 2021 for Choreography IV Final on Zoom (online only)

The Kitchen is a Dangerous Place

Dances in unison in separation in kitchens.

Choreographed and performed by Kyle Ayers and Sean Thomas Boyt

Presented on November 4, 2020 for Choreography III on Zoom (online only)

Placard of my Heart

A study in danced translations.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt

​Performed by Katie Phelan.

Performed on October 21, 2020 at Hancher Auditorium's Strand Hall (Iowa City, IA)

​The grass is my boyfriend
​if I can't touch anyone

A collaborative duet made in connection to Covid-19, physical/social distancing, sex, and academia.
Choreographed/Performed by Darrius Gray and Sean Thomas Boyt 

Performed on October 7, 2020 on the banks of the Iowa River at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)

Golden Era

The Sean Thomas Boyt Dance Project Experience Company.  A romp superficially investigating ideas of performance and intimacy through repetition, conversation, and nearly synchronized dancing.
Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt in collaboration with the dancers: Marisa Illingworth and Margot Electra Steinberg.

Performed on February 5, 2018 for Scratch Night at FringeArts, May 11, 2018 at KYL/D's InHale/Exhale, and December 17, 2017 for A Series of Informal Events (Philadelphia, PA)

Pre-Cut Shapes

A duet with paper accompaniment. Experimenting in the world of low-tech puppet theater, the inherently gendered duet provides commentary on the performers’ personal relationships to spectacle and points to a communal desire to seek authenticity externally.

Choreographed and performed by
Sean Thomas Boyt and Meredith Stapleton

Performed on May 13, 2017 at InHale/ExHale at ChiMAC and May 1, 2017 at Fringe Arts Scratch Night (Philadelphia, PA)

When was it that you started wearing a cardigan?

A nostalgic, winter-on-the-beach kind of world.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt
Dancers: Belle Alvarez, Antonia Z Brown, Hillary Pearson, Meredith Stapleton, Kat J. Sullivan

Performed December 5, 2015 at 'Tis The Season at The Painted Bride (Philadelphia, PA)
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Ribs Flung Wide with SKI BALL

A sequel playing with the classics and remixing them as necessary.

Choreography and performance by SKI BALL
(Sean Thomas Boyt, Kat J. Sullivan, Isaac Lindy)

Performed May 30, 2015 for Jennifer Muller's Hatch Presenting Series at the Jennifer Muller/The Works Studios (New York City, NY)
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subliminalanimal with Antonia Z Brown

A duet made about something, for something, and with somebody.

Choreographed and performed by Antonia Z Brown

Performed May 2 and 3, 2015 at the ETC. Performance Series at the Community Education Center (Philadelphia, PA)
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New Break Up Phrase with SKI BALL

A playful exploration of connection and disconnection.

Choreographed and performed by SKI BALL
(Sean Thomas Boyt, Kat J. Sullivan, and Isaac Lindy)

Performed January 3 and 4, 2015 at the ETC. Performance Series at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia

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"Empowering Corporate Anthem"

A non-sequitur dance short taking place in a coffee shop.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt
Dancer: Taylor Gillhouse

Performed September 26, 2014 for iHearIC at Java House
Also performed April 10, 2016 at Dixon Place for The Field's 30 Artists / 30 Years Performance.

and a song. with Paula Lamamie de Clairac

Sean Thomas Boyt's B.F.A. solo from his time at the University of Iowa.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Paula Lamamie de Clairac
Performed by Sean Thomas Boyt

Performed May 2, 2014 at Grad Event 2014
Performed April 26, 2014 at Sean Thomas Boyt's Triple Bill
Performed May 10, 2014 at BFA Event 2014.
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Authentic Intelligence

An improvisational dance/text piece prompted by humans, responded to by robots, scored by humans, and finally performed by robots.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt.


Performed on May 13, 2014 at UofiRobot at Space Place (Iowa City)

and now... with Lauren Linder

A short look at dance, performance, and relationships and how they change.

Choreographed and performed by Sean Thomas Boyt and Lauren Linder

 Performed December 2013
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Saturday Morning

Converging playful gestures and narrative with live action role-playing.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt
Dancers: Marlee Davis, Irina Gass, Celina LaBat, Libby Westra, Chase Willman

Performed on April 25, 2013 before Around The Block at psz

ROOT

An abstract balletic quartet made for Ivan Trevino's Bloom.

Choreographed by Sean Thomas Boyt
Dancers: Tyler Clark, Stav Comay, Mandy Kurtenbach, Eva Skillings
Musicians: Tyler Swick, Andy Thierauf, Andrew Veit, Aaron Ziegler

Performed November 9, 2012 at Percussion + at Riverside Hall

STBDancing

Sean Thomas Boyt's collection of choreographic, artistic, and collaborative work.
"Dance like no one likes you."

Photos by Kat J Sullivan, Bill Hebert, Alex Bush, Avi Comay, Andy Thieruaf, and Meredith Stapleton
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