Dis-order is an evening-length dance theater performance directed by Mamie Green that examines the complexity of family dynamics through contemporary dance theater, ritual, puppetry, and text. 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 reimagined Passover seder.
With the Father at the helm of this ritual, Dis-order tests the societal line between order and chaos with dark levity, referencing Greek tragedy and Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring, and evoking Jungian archetypes via large-scale puppetry by Freak Nature Puppets — all set to live saxophone by Patrick Shiroishi.
Loneliness Triptychis an interdisciplinary performance using dance, monologues, and props, to explore contemporary isolation through three distinct vingettes: “The Movie-goer” “The Cam-girl,” 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, Cacia LaCount, Anne Kim, Ryan Green, and Ryley Polak.
This work is supported in part by The Brand Library Associates and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. A work-in-progress excerpt will be shown at The Brand Library in May, 2025 and will premiere at the New Hollywood Theater in Fall of 2025.
Research residency (March 2-7, 2025) in Seattle to research Volta’s evening-length work Loneliness Triptych. Mamie Green (Choreographer/Director) and Julian Grubman (Rehearsal Assistant) were joined by four Seattle-based dancers (Anouk Otsea, Michael Arellano, Natalie Grant and Tshedzom Tingkhye).
This residency was supported by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Kerry Hall, and produced by CO-.
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 dramatic 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
Directed by Mamie Green, writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells reimagine Euripides’ Medea, setting the iconic tragedy in LA’s shimmering art world. Harpist Melissa Achten and composer Eli Klausner score the piece live as actors Ellington Wells (Medea), and August Gray Gall (Jason) split the audience in two and recount their side of the story, all while leading them through edible installations by multidisciplinary artist and chef Heidi Ross. Performed by dancers Marirosa Crawford, Ryley Polak, Mamie Green, and Megan Paradowski, SALT makes audiences question their assumpitons of right and wrong, truth and power, all while leaving everyone with conflicting conclusions about what was just witnessed.
PRAISE FOR SALT
“SALT is a true full-body experience. Jason and Medea split the audience into two, each telling their side of the story until a culminating monologue from each brings your loyalty into question. Can you blame me? they ask. Text by Wells and Sammy Loren ropes you into the conflict; it is impossible to remain impartial. Above all, the movement morphs the atmosphere into an enthralling reality, grounded in the human experience but contorted by suspicion and paranoia. Disorientation has never been more luscious.” -LA Dance Chronicle
“Still, this was immersive theater at its best: In between bites of Chef Heidi’s divine dishes, the choreography and its execution seemed a perfect fit for the bare-boned space, which did happen to house several book-laden shelves.” -Fjord Review
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PROMO TRAILER
NNOO at YESS A night of performance at YESS Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA | November 17, 2024
Curated by David Horvitz Choreography by Mamie Green Live music performed by David Zuckerman Performed by Nayomi Van Brunt, Whitney Schmanski, Mamie Green
PHOTOS
The Procession Music Video
Music composed and performed by Patrick Shiroishi Directed by by Mamie Green & Luísa Dalé Choreography by Mamie Green Cinematography and editing by Luísa Dalé Color Grading by Marcelo Brandt Choreography by Mamie Green, in collaboration with the dancers Body Art Painting by TAIOM 1st Assistant Camera: Victor Ponce Produced by Otherly Love Records
Cast: Allen Shiroishi, Eno Lai, Patrick Shiroishi Dancers: Anne Kim, Cacia LaCount, Chadwick Gaspard, Jolyn Lambey
PRAISE FOR GLASS HOUSE The Album
Glass House documents an exceptional, cross-media collaboration of American-Japanese, Los Angeles-based sax player-multi-instrumentalist-composer-improviser Patrick Shiroishi for the dance-theater collective Volta of choreographer Mamie Green. – salt peanuts*
Shiroishi used Green’s ideas for the music and adapted the music for the movement of the dancers. The outcome is suggestive and intimate, seductive and mischievous. – salt peanuts*
“Ochko” is an immersive work by Mamie Green and Emmett Mathison for sound, movement, and architecture. The work unfolds across the bedrooms, kitchens, hallways, balconies, stairways and rooftops of Richard Neutra’s Silver Lake home. Recordings and recitations from dreams, piano notes, bodies and breathing enfold onto themselves and each other. Performed by Shu Kinouchi, Cacia LaCount, Anne Kim, Marirosa Crawford, and Mamie Green, dream and sound and organism are displaced and layered across the time and space of Neutra House.
