Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Music: Says and Done (by Trevor Bumgarner, an original commissioned composition)

Lighting Designer: Asami Morita and Jesse Obremski

Costume Designer: Keiko Obremski

Number of Dancer(s): Three

World premiere at 280 Gibney Theater (March 2022) and an excerpt was showcased by MOVE|NYC| (August 2022). This work later was a part of a partnership between Gibney, Gibney Company, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Fall For Dance North to be presented in Canada (April 2023 and October 2023). Part of this partnership was to expand this 9-minute trio into a 30-minute work for 24 dancers, with two groups.

This work was commissioned by Gibney Company. *This work was created with COVID-19 safety protocols implemented.

Light-Print comes from a personal discovery of what it means to be analytical, a “computer”, and factual. With hanging light fixtures, the performers begin in an underground lab facility and explore how ideas can overwhelm, ignite, and excite our conscious and collective energies. Enhanced by an original composition, by composer Trevor Bumgarner, the vast dichotomy of raw and pristine physicality amplifies the atmospheric space connecting movement, music, and production. The work also brings forward an original costume design by Keiko Obremski which is expanded upon by TMU's wardrobe department. In collaboration with Lighting Designer, Asami Morita, Light-Print allows the lighting fixtures to play as another performing character in this creation to inform, enlighten, and remind us about the importance of constant self-discovery.

Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Music: Reload (by Mike Wall)

Lighting Design: Jesse Obremski

Costume Design: Jesse Obremski

Number of Dancer(s): Two

World premiere at Arts on Site and the AAPI: We Belong Here 2021 Festival (August 2021) and the film version premiered virtually (May 2022) with additional screenings at the ScreenDance Miami Festival (January 2023) and additional performances at AAPI Montclair Lantern Festival 2023 (May 2023) and The Jamaica Dance Festival 2023 (July 2023).

This work was produced and Supported through a selected residency by Arts on Site, JChen Projects, and Midheaven Network. *This work was created with COVID-19 safety protocols implemented.

Stemming from the AAPI hate crimes and initiating the development of Obremski/Works’s AAPI Support Fellowships, VISION and VOYAGER, In-Visible touches the common experience of AAPI individuals and feeling unheard, unrecognized, and unseen. Through this incredibly personal work, the full AAPI cast brings in experience, concepts, ideologies, trauma, and more to deepen this work.

“Many say that invisibility is a fabulous superpower, but how ‘super’ is it when it is oppressed onto you?” - Jesse Obremski

Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Live Performance Music: Happiness (by Jonsí and Alex)

Film Original Musical Score: Untitled (by Jack Frerer)

Lighting Designer: Jesse Obremski

Costume Design: Jesse Obremski

Number of Dancer(s): Eight

World premiere at DUMBO Dance Festival (October 2019) and later performed at Diversity of Dance’s Dancing Beyond 2020 (January 2020).

Inspired by multiple conversations within The Limón Dance Company on how we can dance together in unison without being exactly identical and a rehearsal for Opportunity at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in 2018, Core, touches base on the notion of what “unison” means to us. While rehearsing Opportunity, Obremski rehearsed the double casted quintet, side by side, and found that the physically unison stories with slight differences in intention, timing, focus, and individual physicality can explore our unique differences and universal connective tissue at the same time. While in process, Obremski took the individuality of the Obremski/Works’s dancers and embedded them into the work while sharing a physical structure to guide the two quartets, that are split by center to stage right and stage left. This allows Core to explore and dive deep into what "the words “same”, “identity”, and “unison” could mean for our culture with this physical and emotional representation and also can share how we can see things differently though we can be in “unison” in our core.

Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Music: Opportunity (by Jarom Hansen, a commissioned original composition)

Lighting Designer: Jesse Obremski

Costume Designer: Brigham Young University

Number of Dancer(s): Five

World premiere at Brigham Young University’s Contemporary Dance Theater’s Concert (February 2019), and later performed in Prague, Czech Republic (July 2019), DUMBO Dance Festival (October 2019), Paris and Belgium Tours (June 2022) and the film version screened at Arts On Site (December 2019), Detroit Dance City Festival (September 2020), Cross Move Lab December Showcase (December 2020), and Final Bow for Yellowface’s 10,000 Dreams Festival (May 2021).

This work was commissioned by Brigham Young University and BYU’s Contemporary Dance Theater.

Opportunity stems from a deep relationship built between choreographer, Jesse Obremski, and Brigham Young University (BYU). With various visits to BYU before this work’s creative process, Jesse felt an immense sensitivity to community and family, which then inspired the work. The work goes through the journey of a knit family of four and an outsider that has a desire to join such a community. It dives into the conversation about sharing space for others and, in doing so, how that can be truly empowering for all; How beautiful it can be when fully giving yourself to another and how one’s choice(s), when given such an ‘Opportunity’, is an incredible responsibility. In collaboration with BYU composer Jarom Hansen, this ten-minute work has an original score as well as a dance film, with videography by Scott Cook.

“… Jesse Obremski, choreographing on Brigham Young University’s dancers, offers some of the more exciting movement of the night, brilliantly executed by five tenured students (in Obremski’s work Opportunity) whose careers certainly look promising.” - Elizabeth Shew, The Dance Enthusiast Audience Review

"The best 10 minutes of my day… Beautifully filmed to bring the humanity of Jesse’s work to the viewer. I feel like I am in the room with all of them..very moving.” - Terese Capucilli, Former Principle Dancer and Artistic Director of The Martha Graham Dance Company

Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Music: Grow Till Tall (by Jónsi)

Lighting Designer: Jesse Obremski

Costume Designer: Jesse Obremski

Number of Dancer(s): Two

World premiere at and commissioned by Dixon Place's "Under Exposed Series" (February 2018), curated by Doug Post, and performed at The Battery Dance Festival (October 2018), Arts on Site (November 2018), STUFFED: Dinner and Dance (November 2018), HiArtists (March 2019), and The Jamaica Dance Festival (June 2019).

Brothers is a work in collaboration with performers, Terrence D.M. Diable and Michael Greenberg. Terrence, Michael, and Jesse, all born and raised in New York City, grew up dancing, collaborating, growing their friendships, and much more since 2003. The work represents the three's relationships throughout their lives together in New York City, whether being close together or miles apart.

Choreographer: Jesse Obremski

Music: No Words (by Trevor Bumgarner, a commissioned original composition)

Lighting Designer: Jesse Obremski

Costume Designer: Jesse Obremski

Number of Dancer(s): Two

This dance film was commissioned, filmed, and produced by The Roof Films at The Black Box Theater in The Church of the Blessed Sacrament (2018) and then presented at Arts on Site (2018), Queens DANCE SHORTS (April 2019), Lincoln Center for the Dance Films Association presented by HBO (July 2019), selected for Lift-Off Global Network First-Time Filmmaker Sessions (2019), selected for the Humanitarian Film Day in Istanbul, Turkey (March 2019), SEEQS Public Charter Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii (2020), and International World Dance Day UNESCO (IWDD) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (April 2021).

The live version of No Words had it’s world premiere at DUMBO Dance Festival (October 2018) and then later performed at HiArtists (March 2019) and The Jamaica Dance Festival (June 2019).

No Words is a dance film that has stemmed from the activism on gun control in America. The creation of this work was inspired by the impact of guns in America and asks the viewer to think further on what the next step could be in creating safer communities. The work is a fully collaborative effort between all parties of the team and has an original composition, No Words, created for this film by composer Trevor Bumgarner.

Note from the choreographer: “We, as one community, continually need to reflect on how we relate with one another. "No Words" looks to stimulate a conversation of finding respect and love for each other in a society that can easily desensitize this issue. We can quickly forget the sobering realities of these human experiences, one that may not be our own experiences but one, that still affects many humans today. The conversation begins with us all addressing this difficult issue and finding moments that promote love and respect for our country, our communities, and one another.”