Performing Art – Pittsburgh

ChoreoNova(TM) has four main goals: 1) To make and present deeply meaningful works designed to inspire positive ways of coping with life. We aim to give both the audience members and participating artists the insight to realize their individual and collective resilience. 2) To embrace a wider spectrum of dance than that usually performed by a single company. Instead of showcasing mainly just ballet, modern, or jazz, we are combining various diverse dance styles plus natural movement. 3) To find novel ways of incorporating complementary technological elements into dance, while never overshadowing dance as the primary method of communication. To illustrate, the music for an upcoming piece has had an additional soundtrack of real human heartbeats added. By this addition, the dance depicts the palpable excitement that comes from being in love. 4) To make our art continuously more accessible and relatable to more people. Because our Artistic Director is both an artist and a scientist (B.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011), her dual perspective is a fundamental part of the company. For us, art is subjectivity, emotion, and connection with people; while science is objectivity, testing hypotheses, and discovering the nature of being. Art and science both have in common that they are a quest for truth, just in different ways. This allows us to fuse them together seamlessly.