videos, photos, and project descriptions for my choreographic work over the years
why are we all still here
march 2025 | Lenox Community Center
Set to a soundscape of ambient blues music, we begin in a space of curiosity and play, remembering and rebuilding. This work explores the connection between knick knacks and nostalgia. Inspired by the items that stick with us, persisting even after every iteration of spring cleaning, we embody the objects of affection from our childhoods.
with choreography and performance by: Gillian Ebersole, Shannon Nulf, Akinyemi Blackshear & Steph Gennusa
live music by: Ben Court (fka Muddytooth)
performers & collaborators: Zurie Adams, Veronica Bone, Sarah Daunt, Holly Jones, Sumi Matsumoto, Miriam Piilonen, Fiona Scruggs
*why are we all still here is a reimagining of the first iteration, why are you all still here, which premiered at The Foundry West Stockbridge in 2023. This performance features an expanded cast of choreographers and performers.
parallel flamingo
august 2024 | “Arts Alive!” at Chesterwood
Drawing inspiration from Tableaux Vivants ("Living Pictures"), this piece takes this parlor game to the lawn. Exploring space and perspective, the dancers embodied characters from Jules-Ernest Livernois' "Statuary Group," an 1893 photograph of a Tableau Vivant. Inspired by fantastical scenes of play like that of the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland, the piece evolves to use lawn games as fodder for movement inspiration, as well as shapes of lawn ornaments, including flamingos, gnomes, and garden statues.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole, with dancers
Performers: Maya Bergman Hoechster, Melissa Martinez, Gillian Ebersole, Mary-Claire Hogan, Katherine Humes, Cecilia Kittross, Shannon Nulf, Anastasia Vatis
Music composed by: Benjamin Court FKA Muddytooth
kelp garden
may 2024 | Daniel Arts Center
Centered on community, aloneness, and unearthing, the dance goes on a journey of discovery, rote action, connectedness, and finally, departure.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole, with dancers
Performers: Maya Bergman Hoechster, Veronica Bone, Megan Linick, Chris Ortwein, Maddie Rundle
Music composed by: Benjamin Court FKA Muddytooth
the stream
december 2023 | “Nightwood” at The Mount
A site specific work performed during the unique sound and light immersive experience, Nightwood. “Dance in the trees” pays homage to the moon’s streaming light through the trees and the natural beauty of the Mount’s grounds.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Gillian Ebersole
duet on the veranda
july 2023 | “Arts Alive!” at Chesterwood
This duet was inspired by historic photos of two young people tenderly interacting on the veranda at Chesterwood. The piece plays with the photo’s sense of timelessness, intimacy, whimsy, and mystery, drawing on the reverence of a French folk tune as the soundscape.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Gillian Ebersole
why are you all still here
june 2023 | Foundry West Stockbridge
Set to an original live sound score by Benjamin Court FKA Muddytooth, this work centers on themes of childhood, queerness, and found family.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Gillian Ebersole, Benjamin Court FKA Muddytooth
you know that feeling when
september 2022 | Foundry West Stockbridge
This is a piece I choreographed and performed that embodies the sensations of limerence. You know that feeling when you fall in love, really in love, for the first time?
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Gillian Ebersole
filled with ______ and fingerprint resistant
april 2021 | Screendance, filmed at U-M
This piece explores memories; the rooted realness of some, the fantasy of others. Rooted in tender human interactions and polished with fantastical happenings and transformations, this piece brings the viewer along on a cathartic journey, unearthing what we choose to push away, and what we choose to invite in.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf
Performers: Rowan Janusiak, Steph Gennusa, Lauren Roebuck, Shannon Nulf
STAKES
november 2019 | University of Michigan
STAKES examines, challenges, and demands change. Through vignettes of vulnerable solos and charged improvisation, the dancers imagine for themselves a world forged in positive change with an awareness of its potentially negative effects. Set to an evocative vocal score and incredible live music, STAKES invites you to hear the dancers’ voices and to cast your own desires into the world.
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf & Gillian Ebersole
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Gillian Ebersole, Benjamin Court FKA Muddytooth
Score: Composed by Akari Komura: vocal score written and spoken by the dancers, musical score performed by Hanna Rumora (cello), Matthew Koester (tenor saxophone), and Jordan Smith (flute).
healing through dance
april 2019 | University of Michigan Museum of Modern Art
Choreographed by: Shannon Nulf, Victoria Briones
Performers: Shannon Nulf, Victoria Briones
music videos
Graveyard by Ali McGuirk
sep 2025
Band credits: Sebastian Falvo (guitar), Jeffrey Lockhart (guitar),
Cilla Bonnie (bass, voice), Brandon Mayes (drums, percussion)
Video by: Matt Bovee
Choreography by: Beth Liebowitz
Dancers: Gillian Ebersole and Shannon Nulf
Pollyanna by The Kelseys
feb 2019 | University of Michigan
Written and Directed by: Sam Goldin Produced by: Sam Goldin, Evan Parness, Sophie Allen Choreography by: Sophie Allen Cinematography by: Josh Knoller Edited by: Sam Goldin and Evan Parness Production Design by: Kenzie King Starring: Victoria Briones Featuring: Suzanne Cardosi, Shea Carponter-Broderick, Rose Janusiak, Johanna Kepler, Shannon Nulf, Florence Woo
other folks’ work that I have performed in throughout the years
barefoot dances
by Fiona Scruggs
impressions
by Fiona Scruggs
in the crook of the elbow
by Gillian Ebersole
the place between a drought and a flood
by Gillian Ebersole
improvisation score at Moxie Mondays
by Molly Hess