Solo Performances – Currently Booking!

Grammar-ed
A series of dance grammar stories celebrating language and its structures, funny and poignant. Included are Sentenced to Sentences, Falling for Prepositions and Sexy Grammar.

Namely, Muscles
A seriously silly play with Dr. Nickie Nom, an Anatomical Surgical Specialist, giving a reading from her new book of poems, Namely, Muscles while enacting 96 major muscles of the body and then some. Poems include the audience favorites, "Psoas, the Tender Bender," "Gluteus to my Ears," "Long in the Head," "The Rotator Gang," and "A Word from Our Tendons".

Individual favorites from PORTABLES to lighten any event from luncheons to concerts. Favorites have been Piano in music events, Fund Raiser in fund raisers, Green Dress Circle to introduce your space or event. Happen Chance for special events. Fortuna Tella for a lobby performance (or outside) where Porter delivers silly fortunes from a portable booth, one hand at a time.

A collection of PORTABLES: Any of the above plus Lady Lamp (the job of enlightening), Homestretch (arriving home takes forever), Interview (a job interview going awry), Tour Guide (sucked into history), and It’s a Horserace (about the political race).

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For bookings, please contact Claire Porter at Claire@cportables.com.

Choreography

For faculty: 
A new text & movement solo or duet based on performer/teacher’s current interest. Recently, Overruled for Cynthia Williams, music by Mary Ellen Childs and In Gloves for Bill Evans and Don Halquist. Or a repertory piece such as Interview, recently adapted for Bill Evans and Witnessing Adverbs adapted for Bill Evans and Don Halquist. Possibilities include Pronoun Emergency, now being adapted as a music chamber piece, with composer Toby Twining.

For students: 
A new or repertory piece where Porter works with the performers adapting to their skills. A favorite is Modern on Modern on Modern, a panel discussion on “What is Modern Dance?” Additional favorites: Hats for Hofstra University, Play, an hour-long piece for Rowen College and Matter of Influence for several universities, Looking for the Remote for Wagner College and Job Market, an hour-long piece, also for Wagner College.

For special events and little time:
Rapid Repertory is Porter creating a work in 2 days for a group and having it performed for some event. Past work has included a Muhlenberg College PA alumnae weekend (15 alumnae), National Dance Education Organizations Conference in Mobile AL (20 teachers), Bill Evans Somatics Conference (25 teachers).

Teaching

Claire is known for her expert teaching skills, which she’s been crafting and implementing since 1975. She offers a variety of learning experiences that can be shaped into semester-long, week-long, or hour-long workshops. From community-based spaces to colleges and universities, Porter is enjoys teaching across all skill level and ages.

Currently, Claire teaches Improvisation, Choreography and Laban Movement Analysis for the MFA program at Montclair State University and Creativity as Practice for Fairleigh Dickinson University Metropolitan Campus. She also teaching her Dancing Workout at the Center for Modern Dance in Hackensack NJ.

Claire has performed and/or choreographed for many universities including Princeton University, Rutgers State University, Ripon College WI, Montclair State University, Hofstra University, Sonoma State University, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College, University of Buffalo, Hobart William Smith University, North Texas State University, Antioch College, University of Texas Austin, Texas Women’s University, Harvard University, Houston State University, Long Beach State University, University of Nevada, University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, Western Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, North Carolina State University, Rowan College of South Jersey, Denison University, Oberlin College, Baldwin Wallace College, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Shenandoah University, Hope College MI, Ohio State University, Wright State University OH, Simon’s Rock College, Stockton College of NJ, Manhattanville College, Trinity College Hartford, Long Beach State University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Purchase College, Roger Williams University, Boston University, Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, Boston University, Cleveland State University, University of Oregon Eugene, Muhlenberg College PA, St. Olaf’s College MN, and Kent State University.

Class Offerings:

  • Text & Movement: Develop skills in merging movement and language.

  • Laban Movement Analysis: Clarify one’s movement with the tools of the Laban model.

  • Ways to Phrase: Expand one’s habits of phrasing by practicing short movement sequences changing the phrasing emphasis.

  • Choreography Through the Backdoor: Trick oneself into specificity and new territory in creating choreography.

  • Improvisation: Practice setting limits and investigating those limits.

  • Performance Skills: Address presence and generosity in performance.

  • The Expressive Mover: Explore expressiveness through choosing the present moment.

  • Anatomy through Movement: Get to know specific muscles by engaging with them experientially and thoughtfully.

  • Fun with Grammar: Explore structures of language. Perhaps Over it with Prepositions, The Pronoun Deal, Adverbally Yours or Grammar Itself.

  • Family Dance: A workshop that brings together all generations, from children to grandparents, where families play and devise mini performances.