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“◼️⚫🅾” culminates a four yearslong choreographic exploration of geometric shapes: spatially, geometrically, and physically. While this sounds simple, complexity arises from extremely rigorous application. This hourlong quintet features original sound design by Ross Daniel utilizing the sonic landscape created by the movement itself. The dance began from a small handful of movement phrases that have been iterated, shifted, and transformed to create a seemingly endless volume of phrases all linked by cadence and quality. It is a performance of rigor without progress, what makes the continued effort enjoyable is the community. Each individual in the cast participates for the group, we resonate on the power that emerges from individual efforts towards a common goal.
Sarah Rose is excited to be collaborating with Penn Burrall, Ross Daniel, Helen Greider, and Solana McGonagle for the Chimera Art Co-Lab experimental artist residency at Farmsprung Gatherings. The quintet will be in residence from July 11-18, 2026 with a performance of the project at Farmsprung Gatherings on July 18.
The development of “◼️⚫🅾” has been supported by MOtiVE Brooklyn, Chez Bushwick, Chashama, SMUSH Gallery, The Tank, GreenSpace, and Farmsprung Gatherings.
Sarah Rose is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on movement and performance. Her current research focuses on the intersection of movement habit and the modern dance canon. She holds a BA in Classics from Princeton University (2014) and an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Florida State University (2019). Sarah is collaborating with performers, Penn Burrall, Ross Daniel, Helen Greider, and Solana McGonagle
Penn Burrall Penn Burrall is a freelance dancer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she has had the privilege of performing works by Victor Quijada, José Limón, and Doug Varone. While in NYC, she has performed at White Wave Dance Festival, Spark Dance Festival, and trained with Yue Yin Dance Company and Paul Taylor Dance Company in various intensives. She is thrilled to be performing with Sarah Rose Dance, and continues to explore her interests in dance production, improvisation, arts administrative work, and teaching. Please don’t hesitate to connect anytime! @pennhelendance on Instagram.
Ross Daniel is a Georgia born artist based in New York with an M.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University and a B.A. in theater from Georgia College & State University. Ross is a 2019-2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellow at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and a recent participant of the “MANCC Forward Dialogues” at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography where he developed a dance collective with choreographer Sarah Rose entitled DanielRose Projects. Ross has performed in Then She Fell with Third Rail Company, with 277 Dance Projects, Alexis Zacarello (Center for Performance Research A.I.R,) and Katelyn Halpern and Dancers, on tour with Urban Bush Women (2019 Winter Tour,) and on tour with Fox and Beggar Theatre, a contemporary circus company based in Asheville, North Carolina.
Helen Greider is a Queens based contemporary freelance dancer. Since moving to New York she has performed with Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre, AFFEKT Dance Company, Go.Co, and choreographer/performer Sarah Rose. Helen graduated with a BFA in Dance and Economics from Florida State University in 2021 where she studied under Anjali Austin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gwen Welliver, Donna Uchizono, and Ilana Goldman. Helen is dedicated to exploring and pushing her boundaries of the physical challenge of dance and also in how artistic values impact life experiences and vice versa.
Solana McGonagle is a dancer from Los Cabos, Mexico currently based in NYC. She received her BFA from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee where she performed works by esteemed choreographers Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Dan Wagoner, José Limón and began her own choreographic research. While in NYC she has immersed herself in the dance community participating in workshops through the Cunningham Trust, Sidra Bell Dance Module, Countertechnique and Gibney Dance. Solana has had the privilege of working with Sarah Rose Dance over the last year and a half, where she has continued to foster her love for creative process as well as working in collaboration with artists she admires.