2011

The Vessel Stories - 2011
A work in three parts set to String Quartet #4 (Buczak) by Philip Glass.
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Credo in Us - 2011
Music by John Cage, performed by the Mills Performance Ensemble.
Danced by Molissa Fenley, Peiling Kao, Cassie Mey, Alyssa Lee Wilmot, Rebecca Wilson. With a chorus of 8 current MFA and MA Dance candidates.
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2010

94 Feathers - 2010
Props by Merrill Wagner, music by Cenk Ergun, costumes by Jill St. Coeur, lighting by David Moodey. Premiered at the 92nd Street Y in March 2010, performed by Molissa Fenley, Cassie Mey and Katie McGreevy.
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Planes in Air - 2010
Props by Roy Fowler, music by Joan Jeanrenaud, costumes by Jill St. Coeur, lighting by David Moodey. Premiere at Joyce Soho, November 4, 2010. Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie McGreevy and Cassie Mey.
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Pieces of Land - 2010
Props by Jene Highstein, music by Jason Hoopes, costumes by Jill St. Coeur, lighting by David Moodey. Premiered at Joyce Soho, November 4, 2010. Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie McGreevy, and Cassie Mey.
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Prop Dance #5 - 2010
Props by Keith Sonnier, music by Lainie Fefferman, costumes by Jill St. Coeur, lighting by David Moodey. Premiere at Joyce Soho, November 4, 2010. Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie McGreevy and Cassie Mey.
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Regions (Revival) - 2010
Music by Maggi Payne, set by Roy Fowler, costume reconstruction by Jeffrey Wirsing, original lighting by David Moodey. Performed in alteration by Molissa Fenley (Chair, Ocean Walk, Mesa); Katie McGreevy (Mesa) and Cassie Mey (Ocean Walk). Reconstruction support by the American Masterpieces Initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, 2010.
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2009

Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape - 2009
Music by Alvin Curran
Maritime Rites (Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape)
with John Cage soloist and the Ship horn of the Nantcuket Light Ship II and Poem, STEP, by Bob Holman
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Mass Balance - 2009
music by Cenk Ergun, 120408, prop by Todd Richmond
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Double Beginning - 2009
Premiered at the Orensanz Space in New York City at the American Academy in Rome gala. With poet Bob Holman. Subsequently reconfigured as a trio for Molissa Fenley, Cassie Mey and Katie McGreevy and premiered at the 92nd Street Y in March, 2010.
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2008

Cosmati Variations 1-4 - 2008
music by John Cage
Cosmati Variation 1 - The First Construction (1930)
Cosmati Variation 2 - A Flower (1950)
Cosmati Variation 3 - The Second Construction (1939)
Cosmati Variation 4 - Forever and Sunsmell (1950)
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2007

Calculus and Politics - 2007
music by Harry Partch
commissioned by and premiered at The Joyce in honor of their 25th anniversary
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2006

Dreaming Awake - 2006
music by Philip Glass
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Four Lines - 2006
music by Jon Gibson
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2005

Patterns and Expectations - 2005
music by Fred Frith
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Desert Sea - 2005
music by Lou Harrison
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2004

Lava Field - 2004
music by John Bischoff

2003

Waiting for Rain - 2003
visual design by Roy Fowler, music by Robert Ashley

Water Courses - 2003
music and text by Joy Harjo

Kuro Shio - 2003
music by Bun-Ching Lam

2002

331 Steps - 2002
visual design by Merrill Wagner, music by Laetitia Sonami

Sky Garden - 2002

2001

Folds - 2001
music by Fred Frith, choreographed in collaboration with Bebe Miller

Signs/Landmark - 2001
music by Lou Harrison for Signs, music by Somei Satoh for Landmark, as played by Aki Takahashi

2000

Island - 2000
sculpture by Carol Hepper, music by Harold Meltzer

Weathering - 2000
sculpture by Merrill Wagner

Ceremony - 2000
text by Joy Harjo

Spring Waterfall - 2000
music by Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso

I and You Resemble Each Other, Now - 2000

Delta - 2000
music by John Cage

1999

Timbral Inventions - 1999
music by John Cage

Voices - 1999
music by Kevin Volans, as performed by Joan Jeanrenaud

1998

La Muse Menagere - 1998
music by Darius Milhaud

Tala - 1998
music by John Cage

1997

Trace - 1997
painting by Roy Fowler, music by Jonathan Hart Makwaia text by John Jesurun

Icho - 1997
music by Leroy Jenkins

On the Other Ocean - 1997
music by David Behrman

1996

Latitudes - 1996
a work created for the internet, www.diaart.org/Fenley

Pola'a - 1996
Music by Lou Harrison - danced by both Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal
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1995

Sita - 1995
photography by Sandi Fellman, music by Philip Glass

Savanna - 1995
music by Peter Garland

Regions - 1995
sculpture by Roy Fowler, music by Maggi Payne

1994

Bridge of Dreams - 1994
sculpture by Kiki Smith, music by Laurie Anderson

Jalan Jalan - 1994
music by Lou Harrison

1993

Escalay - 1993
music by Hamza el Din

Tilliboyo - 1993
music by Foday Musa Suso

Sightings - 1993
sculpture by Tatsuo Miyajima, music by Pauline Oliveros

Nullarbor - 1993
sculpture by Richard Long, music by Robert Lloyd

Channel - 1993
sculpture by Richard Serra, music by Somei Satoh

Witches' Float - 1993
sculpture by Kiki Smith, music by Alvin Lucier
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1992

Place - 1992
music by Arvo Part

Threshold - 1992
music by Somei Satoh

1991

Inner Enchantments - 1991
music by Philip Glass

1990

Bardo - 1990
music by Somei Satoh

1989

Augury - 1989
music by Christopher Hyams-Hart, choreographed in collaboration with Doug Varone

The Floor Dances - 1989
sculpture by Richard Long, music by Henryk Gorecki

Provenance Unknown - 1989
music by Philip Glass

1988

In Recognition - 1988
music by Philip Glass

State of Darkness - 1988
music by Igor Stravinsky

1987

Separate Voices - 1987
costumes by Sandi Fellman

1986

Feral - 1986
music by Robert Lloyd

Geologic Moments - 1986
music by Philip Glass and Julius Eastman

A Descent into the Maelstrom - 1986
music by Philip Glass, décor by Eamon D'Arcy

1985

Esperanto - 1985
music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier

Cenotaph - 1985
music by Jamaaladeen Tacuma, text by Eric Bogosian

1983

Hemispheres - 1983
visual element by Francesco Clemente,
music by Anthony Davis,
costumes by Rei Kawakubo
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1982

Eureka - 1982
music by Peter Gordon

1981

Peripheral Vision - 1981
music by Mark Freedman

Gentle Desire - 1981
music by Mark Freedman

1980

Boca Raton - 1980
music by The Talking Heads, design by Steve Keister

Energizer - 1980
music by Mark Freedman

1979

Red Art Screen - 1979
video by Keith Haring

Mix - 1979

1978

The Willies - 1978

1977

Planets - 1977

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