Volta Collective
Circle Around the Silence
In Fall of 2025, I collaborated with Volta Collective (directed and choreographed by Mamie Green) on an evening-length performance set in and inspired by the MAK Center, also known as Schindler House, in Los Angeles, CA. Two speakers were placed in isolated areas of the building, and I wandered the space with saxophone responding to the architecture, dancers, sound, and environment.
The dancers are: Hope Spears, Ryley Polak, Bella Allen, Anne Kim, and Isabella Caso.
The performance was entitled Circle Around the Silence, and was adapted into a short film by Josh Rose and Mamie Green/Volta.
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