Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere

The choreography for this ballet was partially developed during my time as one of the selected choreographers at Dance Lab New York’s Fall 2021 Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet Lab, and presented in its nascent stages in a showing at the New York City Center studios. I continued crafting it on my own company, konverjdans, the following spring, using all six songs on Carmen Q. Rothwell’s album of the same name, and finally presented the full 25-minute ballet as a world premiere at konverjdans’ 2022 season performances of ‘Kwento’ (the Filipino word for “story”) at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY.

‘Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere’ is wholly inspired by and based on Rothwell’s music and stories.

Music: ‘Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere’ - Composed and Performed by Carmen Q. Rothwell
Choreography: Tiffany Mangulabnan in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: James Anthony, Antuan Byers, Peter Cheng, Tiffany Mangulabnan, Jordan Miller, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder
Lighting Design: Conor Mulligan
Costume Design: Reshma Patel-Cline
Videography: Melissa Wu

Photo Gallery

Photos of “Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere” in dress rehearsal by Arnaud Falchier