Solos

Rising to the Occasion (2024-2025)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Music: Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion
Performance History:

  • December 2024, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley

  • April 2025, Mills College at Northeastern, Oakland

  • May 2025, Mary Sano School of Duncan Dance, San Francisco

Just… (2023)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Music: David Lang
Performance History:

  • March 2025, LUNA Dance and Creativity, Berkeley, CA

  • May 2024, SF International Festival, Studio 210, San Francisco, CA

  • November 2023, MilkBar, Oakland

  • December 2023, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco

Alignments (2018)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Music: Byron Au Yong and Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, Giacomo Fiore
(composition: Eve Belgarian)
Performance History:

  • May 2018, Zero Conditional at Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco (premiere)

  • May 2018, Dionysian Festival, Mary Sano School of Duncan Dance, San Francisco

  • June 2018 Smith College, Northampton, MA

Outside the Box: In Memory of Trisha Brown (2017)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Performance History:

  • Dionysian Festival, Mary Sano School of Duncan Dance, San Francisco

  • Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Familiar (2016)

Choreography: Megan Nicely
Original  Music: Erick Scheid
Performance: Megan Nicely and Erick Scheid
Performance History:

  • Dionysian Festival, Mary Sano School of Duncan Dance, San Francisco

Inventing Solitude (2015)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Performance History:

  • Bare Bones Butoh, San Francisco

Fragile (2014)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely and Shoshana Green
Performance History:

  • Bare Bones Butoh, San Francisco

Sonic Body Improv (2014)

Performance: Megan Nicely and Deborah Karp
Live Music: Jim Brashear
Performance History:

  • Sonic Body Series, San Francisco

By the Throat (2010-2013)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Music: Ben Frost
Performance History:

  • August 2012, MilkBar, Oakland, CA (premiere)

  • February 2013, Cool NY Dance Festival, Brooklyn

  • June 2011, Dance Theater Workshop, New York (workshop showing)

  • 2010, Bare Bones Butoh, San Francisco, CA

Art and Life (2010)

Choreography: Deborah Hay
Performance: Megan Nicely
Performance History:

  • 2012, DanceGround Keriac, San Francisco

  • 2013, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland

  • 2015, Noh Space, San Francisco

Homegrown (2008)

Choreography/Performance: Megan Nicely
Performance History:

  • New York Butoh Festival, Brooklyn, NY