Wright Now! PerformanceXperience

Current Activity

Now Available for Touring:

Sing-A-Song (in development)

A celebration of women's ritual, both traditional and nontraditional. Filled with humor, therapeutic balls, and live music. First Public showing, January 29. 2007

Struggles with Words, Attitudes and Great Expectation (in-development)

Influenced by current events. First public showing, November 11, 2006

thequestionofconception (in-development)
A multi-disciplinary project which explores personal conflicts and challenges of the female body and its impact on procreation.

Dreamscape: Where Womb Powers Supersede (65 min.)
Premiered as a trilogy April 11, 2003 at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange in Brooklyn, New York

The Aftermath of Beauty (7 min.)
Commissioned by Andrew Jannetti and Dancers and premiered in May of 2003 at the Doris Duke Theater in New York City.

The $HO$ Show (60 min.)
Directed by Carl Hancock Rux. Please note that this piece has strong language and some nudity.
Premiered October 1999 at Danspace at St. Marks's Church. A solo.

A Sacred Journey (13 min.)
A solo. Premiered July 1998 at the Phat Tuesday Series at the CVS Culture Center, NYC

Unknown Matters (12 min.)
Premiered December 1996 at Performance Space 122 in New York City.

Welcome to the Chris Club: Where Private Moments are Welcomed (vary with sections). Premiered at Judson Memorial Church in 1995 as a duet.

Other Projects:

Emmy award-winning 38TH Season of Sesame Street, first episode "Conga Line" featuring Grammy-award winner, John Legend. "Party Line" closed out the season Featuring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx.

"Tell Me Seh"--music video co-choreographer; dir. Tim Naylor and Nadia Sampson

Mycenaean--movement consultant and performer; playwright Carl Hancock Rux

'Available to Choreograph music videos, commercials, theater and concert dances.

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Artist Statement

I am interested in creating works around urban themes. I use inner city movements to illustrate the way in which we, as individuals and as a community, approach the challenges of everyday life. I incorporate these movements in my work through contemporary dance forms - breath, text, and vocalization. I investigate race, sex, and personal identity conflicts via gesture, language, popular urban dances (Hip-Hop, Club, and R&B), and a dialogue evoked between the performer and the audience.

contact: christalyn@wrightnowpx.org