Work

F O I L (2019)
F O I L (excerpt) performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet (with permission) and filmed August 2020. (Full work viewing offered upon request.) The world premier of F O I L in PNB’s Locally Sourced was presentedon November 8, 2019 at McCaw Hall in Seattle, WA. F O I L uses sensitivity and detail as of method of exploring a house in which each room reveals its secrets.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Amiya Brown
Costume Design: Melanie Burgess
Music: Fanny Mendelssohn, Nadia Boulanger, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Clara Schumann, Franziska Lebrun
Dancers: Company dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet

Keep Me in Mind (2024)
Keep Me in Mind is a work set to the music of Peggy Lee and toys with the stereotypes and tropes of seduction. Playful, light, funny, touching, and heartbreaking, this work takes the viewer on a journey of love, lust, and companionship.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Music: Peggy Lee
Costumes: Doris Black
Performed by the dancers of Olympic Ballet Theater

Semi-permanent (2019)
Semi-permanent addresses the challenges of coping with imposter syndrome and offers a personal examination of its effects. This work was created for The Stone Dance Collective and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work in Bellevue, WA on February 16, 2019.
Choreography: Eva Stone.
Lighting: Dominc Iacono
Music: Frederick George Charrosin, Tom Waits
Dancers: Lorraine Constantine, Julia James, Sarah Poppe, and Emilee Putsche,

O Dear Blossom (Film version)
O Dear Blossom follows a shopgirl at Sheridan's Department store who finds love in the most unexpected way. Premiered October 2022 and was an official selection at the Idaho Screendance Festival in 2024.
Concept and Choreography by Eva Stone
Music by Blossom Dearie (with permission)
Produced by Ashely Parov Filmed by Scott Cook and Brooke Miller
Performed by BYU Theatre Ballet

Shouting at the Merits of Whispering (2023)
Presented at University of North Carolina School of the Arts/Choreographic Residency, July 2023. This piece examines why humans choose to follow and believe in hate and prejudice and is inspired by lessons from the Holocaust.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Music: Philip Glass/Third Coast Percussion
Dancers: Students of UNCSA Summer Intensive

Shahar...According to Plan (2018)
"Shahar...(According to Plan) Performed at Regional Dance America/Pacific Dance Festival in Spokane,WA. 2018. Inspired by the life and death of Jacqueline Morgenstern in 1945 in the Holocaust.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Bill Kickbush
Music: John Cage, Gavin Bryars, Damaso Perez Prado
Performed by: Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division

Me Over You (2024)
Me Over You is a contemporary feminist response to the classical ballet Pas de Quatre. This piece was originally created for the Stone Dance Collective in 2008 and performed here at the Women Choreographers of the PNW Dance Festival in March 2024, Portland, OR.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Music: Cesare Pugni
Dancers: Trinity Isidore, Sophie Powell, Shayne Solomon, Alison Walters

End Of A Year (2017)
End of A Year premiered in 2010 and was performed by the students of The School of Spectrum Dance Theater. The work was restaged and performed in 2017 by Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Music: Luigi Boccherini
Dancers: Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre

Careless/Ruthless (2018)
Careless/Ruthless explores the similarities between two seeming antonyms - how these two words, careless and ruthless, share a common denominator. The work was commissioned for Spotlight on Contemporary Ballet, part of the Seattle International Dance Festival, and premiered in June 2018.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Meg Fox
Music: Ezio Bosso; John Cage; Forest Swords
Dancers: Kyle Davis, Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan, Christian Poppe, and Angelica Generosa

Carbon Black and Fiber (2016)
Carbon Black and Fiber is an homage to the dying art of the handwritten letter. The work was created for The Stone Dance Collective and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work in Bellevue, WA on February 13, 2016.
Choreography: Eva Stone in collaboration with the dancers
Lighting Design: Dominic Iacono
Music: Matmos; Lauren Mullen and Caroline Bergvall
Dancers: Emilee Putsche, Kelly Hui, Tanya Bendis, Kim Holloway, Alexandra Beatty Spencer

A Series of Lies That Tell the Truth (2018)
A Series of Lies That Tell The Truth examines the nature and structure of lies and untruths. Some are passed on in error, others with intent. We look to the culpability of the speaker and the dividing lines these words create within our lives and internal/external spaces. A Series of Lies That Tell The Truth was created for The Stone Dance Collective and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work in Bellevue, WA on February 17, 2018.
Choreography: Eva Stone in collaboration with the dancers
Lighting Design: Dominic Iacono
Music: Avi Belleli; The Ink Spots
Performed by: Valerie Grabill, Julia James, Molly Levy, Sarah Poppe, and Emilee Putsche

You Sleep Like You've Never Sinned (2017)
You Sleep Like You’ve Never Sinned was commissioned by Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Seattle Art Museum, and premiered on August 30, 2017 at the Olympic Sculpture Park as part of the Sculptured Dance program.
Choreography: Eva Stone in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Jyun Jyun
Dancers: Au Collective

Set Theory (2013)
Set Theory physicalizes the mathematical concepts of the unordered collection of objects and elements. Set Theory was commissioned by Mid-Columbia Ballet (Richland, WA) and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work on February 16, 2013.
Choreography: Georg Cantor (Eva Stone)
Lighting Design: Dominic Iacono
Music: Hauschka
Dancers: Mid-Columbia Ballet

A Way To See Where Other Things Are (2015)
A Way to See Where Other Things Are was created for The Stone Dance Collective and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work on February 14, 2015. It was later restaged and performed by South Bay Ballet.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Amiya Pennebaker-Brown
Music: Arcangelo Corelli
Dancers: South Bay Ballet

You may want to adjust your dress... (2014)
You may want to adjust your dress… is a commentary on both female empowerment and the disintegration of feminine constructs. You may want to adjust your dress… was created for The Stone Dance Collective premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work on February 15, 2014.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Amiya Pennebaker-Brown
Music: Found text from American television
Dancers: Kelly Hui, Sarah Poppe, Chloe Goolsby, Madison Bristol, Amanda Records

Stick Figures (2010)
Stick Figures deconstructs the concept of love, down to its basic form between two people. The work exists in that intimate atmosphere. Stick Figures was created for The Stone Dance Collective and premiered at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work on February 13, 2010. The work was later restaged and presented by South Bay Ballet.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Dominic Iacono
Music: Georg Philipp Telemann
Dancers: Emilee Putsche, Samuel Kolodezh, Kelly Hui, Fiona Kuipers, Morgan Houghton, Lizzy Melton, Danielle Chan, Jennifer Baxter, Amanda Records

Difficult Beauty (2008)
Difficult Beauty originally premiered in 1998 at Washington Academy of Performing Arts, and has been restaged multiple times by various dance companies in the years since its debut. This iteration was performed by The Stone Dance Collective at the inaugural CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work festival in 2008.
Choreography: Eva Stone
Lighting Design: Dominic Iacono
Music: Tchaikovsky; Laurindo Almeida, Martin Ruderman, and Salli Terri
Dancers: Emilee Putsche, Kelly Hui, Lizzy Melton, Kira Tassin, Halka Herd