Nov 7
New Works Festival
Returning this season is a very special program aimed at nurturing the talent of emerging artists, COCA’s Choreographic Lab. Arpège Lundyn, the choreographer selected for this year’s program, engages in a six-week creative journey at COCA where they work with COCA’s Pre-Professional artists and world-renowned mentors in dance who guide their vision to the stage. The New Works Festival showcases how mentorship can have a multi-level impact on the innovative craft of an emerging professional and our Pre-Professional artists.
2025 Choreographic Lab mentors include Jamar Roberts, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Houston Thomas, and My’Kal Stromile.
Recommended for All Ages
Run Time: 1 hour
Nov 7
New Works Festival
November 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Discipline
TheatreProgram
Opening Remarks
New Work
Choreographer: Carrie Fernandez
Jaron Bentley
Phoenix Cousins
Luna Cuddihee
Legacy Jackson
Paislee Kern
Alexis Kimani
Alice Little
Ella Miller-Ruddy
Rani Naidoo
Libby Shoemaker
“it ends in the beginning”
Choreographer: Arpège Lundyn
Featuring music from Flying Lotus and Alfonso Peduto
Eva Baxter
AJ Bentley
Lillian Brine
Dwight Erdmann
Willie Hartmann
Jaidyn Madrid
Audrey McMillin
Bella Milligan
Evelyn Overmyer
Elliana Sleet
Scarlett Tipton
Zarah Vaughn
Talkback with the Choreographer
Creative Team
Choreographer: Carrie Fernandez
Choreographer: Arpège Lundyn
Artistic Team
Senior Director of Artistic Strategy & Programs: Shawna Flanigan
Interim Artistic Director of Dance: Kirven Douthit-Boyd
Dance Program Manager: Ashley Hamann
Pre-Professional Division Manager: Rachel Schneider
Production Team
Production Manager: Carolyn Carter
Stage Manager: Joy Addler
Sound Board Operator: Justin Foster
Light Board Operator: Morgan Brennan
Costume Manager: Cody Floyd
About the Choreographers
Arpège Lundyn is a dance artist and choreographer from South Central Los Angeles. She is currently a company member with Saint Louis Dance Theatre, though before that Arpège graduated from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA program, where she also received her B.A. in psychology. Arpège has performed at the BET Awards, Lyric Opera of Chicago, appeared in music videos, and multiple TV/film projects. She is honored to be a part of the New Works Festival, choreographing for Ballet Eclectica.
Carrie Fernandez began dancing with Gateway Ballet of St. Louis and studied with Joffrey Ballet School, ABT, San Francisco Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. She is trained in Vaganova technique and is an ABT certified instructor. Carrie has been a member of COCA’s dance faculty since 2008 and rehearsal director and choreographer for Ballet Eclectica’s Second Company since 2015. Carrie is a teaching artist with St. Louis Dancing Classrooms, a social development program that brings ballroom dance into 5th grade classrooms, and a faculty member of New Town Dance Academy.
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