I am excited to share some news with you.  After a 6 year absence in choreography, I return with my new quintet, "Bits." My amazing cast (Ann DeFrucia, Andrea Brosnon, Jessica Fiedler, Neela Reed) and I are having so much fun creating this piece. We will perform it in the upcoming show "Sisters and Druthers" at Shawl Anderson Dance Center on Nov 12th and 13th. Besides "Bits," I'll also perform "Before Dawn," often referred to as the Red Dress solo.  And I will take the challenge to do a solo improv.  It's a little scary but also fun and thrilling.

I have the honor to share the show with Ann DiFruscia and Carol Kueffer. Each of us will show new work as well as re-staged work. There will also be beautiful singing by Sophia Moore. "Sisters and Druthers" is a month away, but tickets will go fast since the venue only seats 60 people per night. It would be a good idea to get tickets soon.

Here's the link to Shawl-Anderson Dance Center with ticket info and details about the performance series.

I've included an excerpt from our Press Release below, which I hope will entice and interest you.

PRESS RELEASE & CALENDAR LISTING

As part of the Dance Up Close/East Bay series, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents: Sisters and Druthers

Dances by Ann DiFruscia, Carol Kueffer, and Chingchi Yu

Sat., November 12 @ 8pm and Sun., November 13 @ 7pm

BERKELEY, CA September 2016 -- Dance Up Close/East Bay presents Sisters and Druthers, an evening of original dance by Ann DiFruscia, Carol Kueffer, and Chingchi Yu at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, November 12-13, 2016. Three seasoned choreographers, whose experience and careers have spanned over four decades, have formed an alliance to create and produce an evening of new and old work.

Each choreographer has drawn from her life history and fashioned a unique narrative that enhances, balances, and complements each other’s work. What unifies them is their undying commitment and love for dance in all of its styles and constructs: from class to rehearsal to stage; from the intimacy and reverence that evolves from years of practice to the enduring and life-long friendships that are created from that trust and love.

Sisters and Druthers  is presented inside Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, a former home transformed into a space for dance in 1967. With its welcoming quality and long history, Shawl-Anderson is the perfect space to experience this evening of story-telling and luscious, spirited, and vulnerable dance. Audiences are invited to the pre-show and after-show to listen to the evocative and unique vocal stylings and playing of Sophia Moore, while enjoying a glass of wine and bite-size delectables.