My dances have been presented at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Olbrich Botanical Garden, and Brittingham Park (Madison, WI); The Virginia Theatre and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Champaign-Urbana, IL); The Ariel LaSalle Theater (Cleveland, OH); The Oscar E. Remick Heritage Center for the Performing Arts (Alma, MI); The Flea Theater, HERE Arts, JACK, the 92nd St Y, University Settlement, Triskelion Arts, Eden’s Expressway, The Judson Memorial Church, The Tank, and Vital Joint (NYC); The Cocoon Theatre (Poughkeepsie, NY); Bennington College (Bennington, VT); and No. Six Depot (West Stockbridge, MA). I have also been an artist-in-residence at Bennington College and the Berkshire Choreography Project, and I was a 2016-2017 inaugural commissioned artist for the Oye Group (FKA Brooklyn Gypsies). I was the spring 2024 guest artist-in-residence at Alma College (Alma, MI).


SELECTED WORKS

WAVES OF CONSEQUENCE
premiere: April 2025
cast: Harley Blanchard, Reagan Coussens, Juliana De Stefano Laird, Emma Gramm, Aurora Hines, Anna Flitsch, Beatrice McCoy, Katie Pratt, Mia Rodriguez, Chloe Schwartz, Erin Steers, Marissa Stolt

The title “waves of consequence” refers to a phrase used frequently by commentators at the 2024 Olympic Games during the surfing event. I watched this event with my grandmother shortly after she received a terminal cancer diagnosis. We observed these athletes bobbing around in the water, at the mercy of the tides to bring them the perfect wave. At the most visible moment of their lives, their circumstances were completely beyond their control. All they could do was wait. This dance reflects the power of being witnessed, the precarity of being unseen, and the ways we cope with waiting. It was choreographed for the UW-Madison Dance Spring Repertory Concert.

AGE (ensemble)
premiere: January 2025
cast: Jayla Anderson, Juli Brandano, Sofia Garcia, Maddie Harley, Anna Lillig, Jade LeJeune, Olivia Papa, Claire Rineberg

Co-choreographed with Paige Cunningham Caldarella. Co-choreographers’ note: contemporary ballet stems from “classical” ballet vocabulary but simultaneously resists and deviates from its traditions. It challenges an either/or paradigm, allowing dancers to draw from a wide canon of movement traditions. We had several questions that guided our studio research: Can we make ballet that is relevant to the times we are living in? Can we anchor ourselves to curiosity about the present moment, rather than preoccupying ourselves with a future product? Can contemporary ballet’s physical juxtapositions of groundedness against relevé, risk against balance, and improvisation against form direct dancers to personal freedom? We continue to explore these and many other questions.

AGE (duet)
premiere: November 2024
cast: Paige Cunningham Caldarella, Anna Peretz Rogovoy

Age began as a choreographic process by Paige, Anna, and an undergraduate cast of nineteen dancers. The initial research questions included how a sneaker functions as/instead of a pointe shoe or bare foot, how principles of Cunningham Technique such as risk-taking and moving on and off center can be applied to a ballet vocabulary, and how women and AFAB dancers can partner each other. Over the course of a year, as a movement vocabulary emerged, the choreographers began to select phrases and structures to explore in their own bodies and with each other. Age exists as an ensemble work and as this duet.

GOOD GIRL
premiere: February 1, 2024
original cast: Juliann Craft, Sara Hook, Anna Peretz Rogovoy

Good Girl crashes into notions of dominance, legacy, and beauty. This multigenerational cast and choreography problematizes movement vocabularies that strategically employ gender and sexuality to either diminish or highlight individual power.

IN THE WEEDS
premiere: March 30, 2023
original cast: Abby Williams Chin, Harper Clark, Elsa Gaston, Adanya Gilmore, Noa Greenfeld, Natalie Kunsemiller, Anne Morgan, Claire Rineberg, Isabella Saldaña, Damiyah Williams

In The Weeds is a ranging stroll through the midwestern prairie. The cast of ten dancers navigates teasingly specific choreography inspired by native plants such as the blue funnel lily and purple poppy mallow. Rogovoy's underlying curiosity regarding the future of movement vocabularies such as ballet and Cunningham technique works its way into the dance's root system, providing structure and language.

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE FOLIAGE
premiere: April 9, 2022
original cast: Annie Dickenson, Noa Greenfeld, Bridgette Hammond, Kate Henderson, Anna Lillig, Marialena Tamvakis
quartet version: Noa Greenfeld, Kate Henderson, Anna Lillig, Anna Peretz Rogovoy

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE FOLIAGE troubles codified dance languages to engage with natural and botanic forms and concepts; chief among these is crown shyness, a phenomenon by which trees avoid touching each other by directing new growth into the negative space left by their neighbor trees. Crown shyness creates a quilted image of the sky when seen from below. The dancers materialize as feminine archetypes and dissolve into geologic formations, moving into and apart from each other, never merging or vanishing.

MAJOR CRATER
premiere: December 2019, The Flea Theater
original cast: Rebecca Hadley, Pareena Lim, Michael Parmelee, Anna Peretz Rogovoy

MAJOR CRATER is a half-evening work exploring disruption and variation in pattern and cycle. Drawing abstract inspiration from the natural world (shifts in texture and volume of light at dusk) as well as pre-existing art works (George Balanchine’s Serenade), MAJOR CRATER’S emergent theme is one of availability and resilience.

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT FOR ONE BODY
premiere: September 2016, JACK with subsequent iterations January 2017, JACK and June 2018, University Settlement
choreography and performance: Anna Peretz Rogovoy

How difficult is it for one body is a deeply personal and malleable solo performance exploring the choreographer's identity as a white Jewish woman living in gentrifying Brooklyn. Utilizing a sound score that includes field recordings of the choreographer's great-grandparents, both late Brooklyn residents and immigrants of the Holocaust era, the work is driven by the choreographer's own stories of otherness and tension as told through words and embodied in a diverse and rigorous movement vocabulary.

EAST
premiere: January 2018, the 92nd St Y with subsequent performances June 2019, HERE Arts
original cast: Rebecca Hadley, Pareena Lim, Anna Peretz Rogovoy

EAST uses a shared library of movement phrases and a set of guidelines unique to each performer to create an indeterminate choreographic structure revealing the focus and detail of dancemaking in real time. It is a dance about dance, danced by dancers who love dancing with each other.

WEST
premiere: February 2016, Bennington College with subsequent performances March 2016, Eden’s Expressway and June 2019, HERE Arts
original cast: Rebecca Hadley, Benny Olk*, Anna Peretz Rogovoy (*replaced at HERE Arts by Pareena Lim)

WEST addresses the confusion and disorientation of success as a performing artist, and how we perceive our own efforts, achievements, and goals. This dance asks: why keep trying? Why pursue something we know is impossible? And more importantly, what happens to us (physically, psychologically) during this quest?