Blood and Bone is adapted from a 2021 film of the same name and navigates the experience of being a woman, both collectively and individually, through the exploration of archetypes and personal experiences.

Choreography: Cecly Placenti and Dancers

Music: Danheim; Deuter


Dancers: Shuning Huang, Eilish Henderson, Faustine Lavie, Cecly Placenti

Veils of a Spiraling Demise explores ideas of fear, aggression, anxiety, apathy and the false panacea of distraction as it relates to today’s social climate. Performers, shrouded by thin veils of complacency, separate themselves from the world around them in an attempt at safety and protection. But when they remove those veils, what do they see? And how will they respond?

Choreography: Cecly Placenti with the dancers

Music: Armand Amar, Kevin Keller, Jon Hopkins, Bryce Dessner, Bang On A Can All Stars

Musical Arrangement: Rob Voisey

Dancers: Shanise Dews, Eilish Henderson, Shuning Huang, Cecly Placenti

Blood and Bone is a dance film that navigates the experience of being a woman in this world, both collectively and individually, through the exploration of archetypes and personal experiences.

Choreography: Cecly Placenti and Dancers

Music: Scott Buckley

Videography and Editing: Joseph Heitman

Dancers: Shanise Dews, Eilish Henderson, Faustine Lavie, Cecly Placenti

Toward a Metallic State is a precursor to Blood and Bone, focusing on the same themes and concepts in a more abbreviated form.

Choreography: Cecly Placenti and Dancers

Music: Dave Heumann

Videography and Editing: Joseph Heitman

Dancers: Shanise Dews, Eilish Henderson, Faustine Lavie, Cecly Placenti

"Still Moving" is the visual component of a project examining the effects of quarantine on the dance community. Through movement, the dancers explore various states of being experienced over a long period. The article, which was the first part of the project, can be found in Motion By Degrees.

Music: Dave Heumann

Editing: Joseph Heitman

Music: Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar 

Midsommar by Scott Buckley

Dancers: Caitlin Knowles, Joseph Heitman, Kristen Klein, Eilish Henderson, Hannah McClean, Sarah Lapinsky, Emily Relyea-Spivack, Dianne Skerbec, Cecly Placenti, and Teresa Fellion.

Affix is a virtual dance series created by Six Degrees Dance and Inclined Dance Project. This series aims to overcome barriers to time and space, offering artists new ways to connect and create together and bridge the gap between live performance formats and digital programming.

Music: Smells like Content by The Books

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Dancers: Eric Gil, Joseph Heitman, Kristen Klein, Chie Mukai, Cecly Placenti, and Heather Robles

Editing: Joseph Heitman

OffShoot was presented by LuneAseas for a Silent Film Festival in Colorado in August of 2020. The festival supported long-distance creative collaborations between artists of varying genres. 

Original music composed and performed by Julianne Mason

Conceptual Artists and Dancers: Cecly Placenti and Joseph Heitman

Editing: Joseph Heitman

Fissure is about trying to find who you are. As the walls in your brain shatter, one part of your personality remains to dominate the rest.

Choreography: Sean Scantlebury

Music: Armand Amar, Chanting Monks, Se Tew

Dancers: Shanise Dews, Eilish Henderson, Hannah McClean, Cecly Placenti

Veils of a Spiraling Demise explores ideas of fear, aggression, anxiety, apathy and the falsepanacea of distraction as it relates to today’s social climate. Performers, shrouded by thin veils of complacency, separate themselves from the world around them in an attempt at safety and protection. But when they remove those veils, what do they see? And how will they respond?

Choreography: Cecly Placenti with the dancers

Music: Armand Amar, Kevin Keller, Jon Hopkins

Text: Written by the dancers

Dancers: Shanise Dews, Eilish Henderson, Sarah Lapinsky, Hanna McClean, Cecly Placenti, JillianSawyer

Balancing Abstract manifests into motion the brush strokes and vibrant colors of an oil oncanvas, painted by Michael Placenti. Distilling movements from images, and attaching paintbrushes to body parts, this piece both deconstructs the painting and recreates it in a new form.

Choreography: Cecly Placenti with dancers

Music: Michael Gordon

Artwork: Michael Placenti

Dancers: Kristen Klein, Chris Makens, Cecly Placenti, Diane Skerbec, Emily Relyea-Spivack, Rachel Russell

Infinite Reflection explores what it means to reflect- the return of light waves from a surface, an effect produced by an influence, the production of an image as if by an infinity of mirrors. 

Choreography: Cecly Placenti

Music: Arvo Pärt

Dancers: Cecly Placenti, Kristen Klein, Rachel Russel, Vanessa Ferranti

A light, humorous movement conversation between two distinctly different personalities. 

Choreography: Cecly Placenti

Music: Loren Dempster

Dancers: Cecly Placenti and Kristen Klein

In your Light is inspired by and based on the poetry of Rumi. Through the creation of a movement alphabet which we then assigned to the letters and phrases of the poems, the dancers express both the written word and the emotions behind those words, in physical form. 

Choreography: Cecly Placenti

Music: Ludovico Einaudi; XPURM; The Album Leaf; Alexandra Streliski

Voiceover: Dawn Jenkin 

"Michael In Motion is a conversation between artists, between artistic mediums and cultures. Honoring the personal, individual response to any work of art, MIM takes the reactions of 6 dancers to 10 of Mr. Placenti’s paintings and crafts these kinetic responses into a new piece of art symbiotically related to the original paintings."

Choreography: Cecly Placenti in collaboration with the dancers

Music: Jeffrey Izzo, Vitamin String Quartet, Laurie Anderson

Art Work: Michael Placenti

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Costumes: Carole Placenti