https://www.darrianoreilly.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586809627357-6AIGSF1DFGO3AF87LRX7/IMG_2499.JPG Home https://www.darrianoreilly.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1594004855546-HJ3DUVZRXBCAXSFQ046B/spin.gif About https://www.darrianoreilly.com/dance daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/a43ba677-7844-4501-b3e1-b5c6814e8426/WTSK-206.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/3e1857ea-653b-4a79-8eb5-65cfb1f42645/wmuvisuals-176.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586564847721-W8B9KSR2EUTV76KWVBWN/1903011_01_0409.jpg Dance - Me First After You Me First After You is a playful exploration of the co-existence of bodies in close proximity. Negotiating, leveraging, yielding, resisting, harmonizing— Me First After You depicts a stream of intimate potentials beyond romantic entanglement or antagonism. Drawing inspiration from social dance forms such as lindy hop and contact improvisation, Me First After You explores high stakes closeness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586565218562-4BDHCWXUG66K4WUH6UE0/danceperformance.twdcc.winterfest-DeviPridePhotography-07.jpg Dance - Odalisque Odalisque is a solo dance piece exploring the female as muse and visual subject. Taking inspiration from classical and modernist paintings of women in repose, the solo is an effort to reclaim renderings of the female form and animate her with agency. The solo integrates choreographed material and improvisation, posing the question of what it means for the muse to be the subject of her own making. This work was made possible in part by the Pennington Dance Group Space Grant at ARC Pasadena and the Z. Clark Branson Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1594072381579-L81NDGIN4YNQRIIQO7SF/DSC_0793.jpg Dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586811921734-MMJZH929LAOV3E8G8BRO/DSC_3310.jpg Dance - Made in a marble palace Inspired by oracular divination, seven dancers travel through dreamy realms negotiating the limits and possibilities of their perceptual awarenesses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586811954783-QGDZUWRPD8RV1BEEMMR6/IMG_1313.JPG Dance - Clown’s girlfriend In an intensely nostalgic 1950s apocalyptic prom nightmare, Clown’s Girlfriend depicts the decay of the party. Set to mid-twentieth century sound-effects records and a two-man jazz ensemble, six high-heeled women in extravagant formalwear scamper and scurry, contort and flop, and softshoe and wiggle across the stage as they create and destroy their world. Referencing retro tropes, music, and costumes reminiscent of Old Hollywood, the dance both undermines and pays tribute to traditional conventions of live entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1586565993837-M3O6IU84SL8PCHH6YP0Q/CIA_20151108_0140.jpeg Dance - Animal Rites Through faithful baby animal video derivation, dancers translate movement from a variety of animal species onto the dancers’ extremely human bodies. The performers cuddle as kittens, sway on their backs as baby bulldogs, careen into one another as baby goats, and ultimately hunt as a pride of lions. The piece becomes a surreal and non-linear evolution from the nurturing and cute to the savage and menacing. The piece calls attention to the similarities and differences between humans and animals, the bonds between us and the continual evolution of this relationship. https://www.darrianoreilly.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://www.darrianoreilly.com/press daily 0.75 2023-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90aa522ea4997cf235d444/1594067652596-PZQCW1TQB3TGZWV4YCXI/giphyw%3Azena.gif https://www.darrianoreilly.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-05-15