Works by Julian Donahue
Square the Circle
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
Memory Palace
Music: Francois Couperin, Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Air, Les Kapsber’girls, Germaine Tailleferre
Original Cast: Julian Donahue
Costumes: Julian Donahue
Premiered at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, December 2023
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Game Set Match
Music: Symphony No. 1 in G Major I. Allegro by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint George
Original Cast: Giulia Faria, Ethan Huffman, Jonathan Leonard, Mónica Lima, Charles Rosario, Sarah Stafford
Premiered at NYTB 2023 Gala, April 2023
Horizon
Music: Piano Improvisations by Amy Beach
Original Cast of Excerpt Performed: Giulia Faria
Original Full Cast in Creation: Alexis Branigan, Giulia Faria, Jonathan Leonard, Mónica Lima, Amanda Treiber
Made in Residence at Sky Hill Farm Studio, June 2022
Premiered Excerpt at Ballet Arts City Center, August 2022
Nothing in Particular
Music: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 by Arnold Schoenberg
Original Cast: Julian Donahue
Premiered at WAXWorks Triskelion Arts
March 2022
Music: Piano Potpourri “Soliloquy” and “Flight” by Zenobia Powell Perry
Original Cast: Giulia Faria and Mónica Lima
Costumes courtesy of NYTB
Displacement was commissioned in 2021 for New York Theatre Ballet’s Lift Lab Live series which presented dance to audiences in accordance with COVID guidelines. The duet explores the human need for touch, connection, and togetherness through a queer lens. During a time when social distancing ruled and we had to police the way we gathered and moved, I felt audiences could have a window into how queer people police their own bodies, movement, and the way we touch each other in public. After Lift Lab Live, Displacement has been performed at Battery Dance Festival (2023), White Wave Dance Festival (2022), and Queens Outdoor Dance Festival (2022).
Premiered at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, April 2021
Displacement
Conspiracy to Commit Fraud
Music: Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads
Original Cast: Dennette Bennett, Julian Donahue, Taylor Wenzl
Premiered at Joan and Donald Schaeffer Black Box Theatre at Hofstra University, December 2018
Uncaged by Antonia Frasceschi. Photo by Richard Termine.
A Brother Distant by Richard Alston. Photo by Richard Termine.
Size of the Sky by Nicolo Fonte. Photo by Richard Termine.
Small Sonata by Richard Alston. Photo by Richard Termine. with Amanda Treiber.
Small Sonata by Richard Alston. Photo by Richard Termine. with Amanda Treiber.
Size of the Sky by Nicolo Fonte. Photo by Richard Termine.
Size of the Sky by Nicolo Fonte at Battery Dance Festival.
Size of the Sky by Nicolo Fonte at Battery Dance Festival.
Size of the Sky by Nicolo Fonte at Battery Dance Festival.
Wind-Up by Amanda Treiber. Photo by Richard Termine. with Mónica Lima.
Toulouse's Dreams by Bridgman|Packer. (in hoop skirt).
Toulouse's Dreams by Bridgman|Packer.
The Hunt by Larry Keigwin.
Las Desenamoradas by Eleo Pomare staged by Robin Becker and Dyane Harvey-Salaam. with Dennette Bennett and Katie Gorsky.
Body/Light by Random International and SuperBlue Arts. with Mónica Lima and Lester St. Louis.
Conspiracy to Commit Fraud by Julian Donahue. with Dennette Bennett and Taylor Wenzl.
Backstage in Houston with New York Baroque Dance Company. with Carly Fox.
Dancing as the Stag in Carnaval de Venise by Andre Campra with the Boston Early Music Festival.
"Nothing in Particular" at WAXWorks. Choreography by Julian Donahue.
"Nothing in Particular" at WAXWorks. Choreography by Julian Donahue.
"Nothing in Particular" at WAXWorks. Choreography by Julian Donahue.
"Nothing in Particular" at WAXWorks. Choreography by Julian Donahue.
