Creative Director Nathini Vandermeer, Andi Hammertime PhotographerYudo Kurita Photo assist Nori Rasmussen Martinez Producer Andrew Lee Movement Direction Mamie Green / VOLTA Dancers Chadwick Gaspard, Tiff Leah Chung Stylist Nathini Vandermeer StylistAssist Melian Junius HMU Jenna Lee SetDesigner Tony Bang PA Landon Morris
Dis-order is an evening-length dance theater performance directed by Mamie Green that examines the complexity of family dynamics through contemporary dance, theater, comedy, ritual, and puppetry. Staged in the round, the work uses these mediums to draw viewers from various entry points into the world of a family unit enacting a spring ritual.
With the Father at the helm of this ritual, Dis-order tests the societal line between order and chaos with dark levity. Staged à la Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the piece references Jewish symbolism, Greek tragedy, Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring, and Jungian archetypes via large-scale puppetry by Freak Nature Puppets — all set to live saxophone by Patrick ShiroishiandNicolas Snyder(Common Side Effects, Adult Swim & Scavengers Reign, HBO).
Loneliness Triptychis an interdisciplinary performance using dance, monologues, and props, to explore contemporary isolation through three distinct vingettes: “The Cam-girl,” “The Doppelgänger,” and “The Kid.”
Directed and choreographed by Mamie Green, the performance is in collaboration with writers Stephanie Wambugu, Lily Lady, and Sammy Loren, musician Dylan Fukioka, and dancers Bella Allen, Mandolin Burns, Anne Kim, Ryan Green, and Ryley Polak.
This work is supported in part by The Brand Library Associates, WIP LA, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. A work-in-progress was shown at The Brand Library in May, 2025 and Wende Museum in October, 2025. An excerpt was performed at Jeffrey Deitch in June, 2025, and the piece premiered at the New Hollywood Theater in October, 2025.
“…tender, subtly urgent…a gentle collision with the universe.” – Culturebot
Research Residency: Kerry Hall, Seattle Brand Library, Glendale WIP LA at Wende Museum
Loneliness Triptych is supported by grants and residencies from CO-, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Brand Library Associates, and WIP LA at Wende Museum.
Circle Around Your Silence, 2025 is a site-specific performance set at the iconic MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles.
Green collaborated with filmmaker Josh Rose to create an dance film which used archival letters between the architect Rudolph Schindler and his former wife Pauline Schindler. The choreography responds to the clean lines and quiet order of Schindlers’ architecture juxtaposed with the wildness of the dancers’ bodies.
Site-specific performance choreographed by Mamie Green Dance Film Directed by Josh Rose and Mamie Green Director of Photography and Editing: Josh Rose Dancers: Anne Kim, Bella Allen, Ryley Polak, Isabella Caso, Hope Spears
Presented by Ace Hotel Brooklyn, Mamie Green’s Lover’s Discourse in an immersive dance + theater performance that unfolded across the public lobby of the hotel.
The interdisciplinary piece features actors interpreting Shakespearean monologues as the choreography embodies and breaks apart the narratives through abstract movements. Quotes from Roland Barthes’ iconic A Lovers’ Discourse frame each act.
Directed and Choreographed by Mamie Green Shakespeare arranged by by Matthew Gasda Original score by Alex Merbouti Performed by Sophie Becker, Mia Blake,Tim Allen, August Gray Gall, Kimie Parker,Jordan Powell, Marcus Sargeant, Donterreo Culp, Julian Grubman, and Mamie Green Lighting Design byHenry Mont
REVIEWS
“a different kind of treat…the emergence of highly attuned and articulate bodies arising out of the familiar din of city life.”
Photography by Asato Iida Movement Direction by Mamie Green / Volta Dancers: Audrey Ochi, Chadwick Gaspard, Ryley Polak, Hope Spears, Mamie Green Wardrobe: Vihanga Styling by Miles Shaggy Jackson Photo Assistants: Zach Serrano and HYAKUBO
Commissioned by the Laguna Art Museum, Ocean Ions a site-specific performance by Volta in collaboration with artist Christian Sampson. Choreographed by Mamie Green, the performance activates Sampson’s new sculptures, with a live score composed and performed by Marta Tiesenga with vocalist Kat Shuman, and hand painted costumes by Ariel Dill and sparkalee.
With an intergenerational cast of 11 dancers, Ocean Ions uses bodies, light, sound, sand, and sea, and took place on the beach at sunset.
This work was commissioned by Laguna Art Museum’s Art + Nature Series and the exhibition Christian Sampson: Ocean Ions.
Choreography: Mamie Green in collaboration with the dancers Sculptures: Christian Sampson Dancers: Cacia LaCount, Joey Vice, Anne Kim, Jolyn Lambey, Mamie Green, Keilan Stafford, Ryley Polak, Chelen Middlebrook, Emma Nguyen, Lana Nguyen, Agatha Sampson
Score by: Marta Tiesenga with Kat Shuman Costumes: Ariel Dill and sparaklee
Directed and choreographed by Mamie Green, Glass House is an immersive performance deconstructing mythologies of home. Art Direction by Gbenga Komolafe, script by Sammy Loren and Zoey Greenwald, and an original score composed and performed by Patrick Shiroishi. In the performance, audiences interact with, change and ultimately destroy their surroundings.
Performers: Cacia LaCount, Paul Liu, Anne Kim, Avery Gerthart, Chadwick Gaspard, Mamie Green, Jance Enslin, Jolyn Lambry
PRAISE FOR GLASS HOUSE
“Glass House, a shimmering, shattering, immersive, layered, intermedia performance from Volta Collective … director and choreographer Mamie Green creates a house that pulses with mental disruption and colliding emotion.” -LA Review of Books
“[Glass House is] … something modern that makes undeniable emotions and provocative ideas out of ambiguity, strangeness, and abstraction.” -Document Journal
“Green is just so sure in sculpting the narrative with bodies… — felt like the most successful leveling of high art and ‘low art’ I had seen in a long time.” -LA Dance Chronicle
“.. this is movement the audience can feel. Volta’s dancers carried one another the way we ourselves shoulder our friends, lovers, and family — occasionally laboriously — as we build our homes: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.” -Hyper Allergic
“Immersive dance with a narrative element.” -Diana Ruzova
The Bridge, 2024by Marcos Lutyens and Volta, premiered at the MAXXII National Museum as part of the exhibition, No Time for Prophecies and was selected as part of the 92Y Future Dance Film Festival 2025 in New York.
The work explores the elasticity of time, where temporal flows expand and contract, creating an elastic sense of reality. The Bridge links trance states to an intensified perception of time, memory, and the self.
Director: Marcos Lutyens Choreography: Mamie Green Director of Photography and Editing: Jackson Roth Voice: Marcos Lutyens Dancers: Jolyn Lambey, Ryley Polak, Lily Solomon. Score by: Patrick Shiroishi Sound Design: Aaron Drake Producer: Marcos Lutyens
Presented by the EAST Miami Hotel, Volta created a performance work that unfolded across four suites on the 36th floor. The Miami and LA-based cast of actors, musicians and dancers told a story of displacement and reinvention.
Choreography by Mamie Green, in collaboration with the dancers Script by Sammy Loren Original score by Alex Merbouti Video Installation byRichard Vergez Performed by Clinton Harris, Betty Garcia Diaz, Armando Gomez, Nicole Pedraza, Enrique Villacreses, Shoshana Sklar, Maria Burt, Sky Bison, Camila Rodriguez
Creative Director + EP: Zandie Brockett Production: Raygun Agency