Backhausdance: Garden Flow at Sherman Gardens 2023

A dance residency and performances in the garden in Spring 2023, commissioned by Sherman Library & Gardens. Backhausdance created a site-specific contemporary dance performance inspired by a month-long residency in Sherman Gardens. Guests were invited to watch and engage with the dancers as they rehearsed during the week and the residency, and participate in community classes. The Residency culminated in three ticketed promenade performances, as well as an educational performance where students from a nearby elementary school were bussed in.

Backhausdance: Garden Flow at Sherman Gardens 2021

A dance residency and performances in the garden in Fall 2021, commissioned by Sherman Library & Gardens. In an exciting new collaboration, Backhausdance created a site-specific contemporary dance performance inspired by a month-long residency in Sherman Gardens. Guests were invited to watch and engage with the dancers as they rehearsed during the week and the residency culminated in two ticketed promenade performances.

Photo by Emily Duncan

Backhausdance With(in) OCMA: Triptych

Backhausdance is back with an immersive performance of original dance creations by artistic director and company founder Jennifer Backhaus. A series of three kinetic responses to OCMA's exhibitions, Triptych is a collaborative movement composition designed for audiences to experience at their own pace.

Photo By Camryn Eakes

Backhausdance With(in) OCMA: Keeping

Experience an immersive performance of a new, original dance work by founding Backhausdance member, Amanda Kay White. "Keeping" is a site-specific piece created especially for the Orange County Museum of Art, designed to place the audience at the center of work where they can intimately witness the unfolding of the dance. Don't miss this one-of-a kind OCMA performance.

SCREEN DANCE

WORKS

Backhausdance With(in) OCMA / MESH (2021)

Choreographed and Directed by Jennifer Backhaus

Based on the exhibition Alexandra Grant: Telepathy is One Step Further Than Empathy
Music: Himitsu by Lama House
Director: Jennifer Backhaus
Assistant Director: Adrien Padilla
Director of Photography: Chris Emerick
Camera Operator: Max Parada
Gaffer: Greg Zajack
Running Time: 8 minutes

Immerse yourself in this moving exploration of human connection and empathy created by choreographer Jennifer Backhaus in collaboration with Backhausdance dancers. Based on the exhibition Alexandra Grant: Telepathy is One Step Further Than Empathy, the dancers move in duets fraught with conflict, ultimately finding connection and understanding with each other. A movement response captured and filmed in the OCMA galleries, the performance captures the dynamic interplay between contemporary dance and visual art.

Videography and film production by Chris Emerick and Paragon Media.

g r o u n d e d . (2020)

Choreographed and Directed by Jennifer Backhaus

Music: Limestone and Felt by Caroline Shaw
Director: Jennifer Backhaus
Camera / Editor: Chris Emerick and Mason Crowe
Running Time: 9 minutes

Filmed entirely on location outdoors in our autumnal, coastal landscape of the Orange County Back Bay in Newport Beach, CA, this visually-captivating artistic experience enables you to follow along the trails and pathways with each of our ten dancers as they express and interpret their individual spaces through solos, moving in the splendor of different natural settings and being grounded in the textures of the earth, all in a single day.

Presented in close collaboration with Chris Emerick and Paragon Media