A blend of choreographic, movement, and acting video materials in chronological order.
(Currently being updated - more coming soon!)
GALILEO (2025) - Choreography
"The awkward wildness of adolescence - trying on & taking off extremes to find a prototype of independent Self - is something we often abandon in adulthood. Instead of subduing inner teenage rebellion in fear of challenging societal expectations, what if we embraced our strangest proportions, oddities, & impulses in the world where the wild things are?"
Choreographed and directed by Mads Ward and Maeve Friedman for PlayGround: a 10-hour (five two-hour days) flash choreographic incubator featuring 5 creative works sponsored by 801 Salon and the RDT Link Series.
Performed June 21st & 22nd, 2025, at the Rose Wagner Blackbox in Salt Lake City, UT by Dominic Favela, Kylie Lloyd, LeGrande Lolo, and Morgan Phillips. Videography by Ryan Ross.
Follow the Chords So Sweetly (2025) - Movement & Choreography
"Follow The Chords So Sweetly is a collaborative ode to queer dreaming shared through the vehicles of movement, theatre, and live music. The work yearns for the queer domestic life through living room vignettes of mundane and euphoric love. A world of fabric clouds, whispered thoughts, flowing nightgowns, and a lamp-tied clothesline invites us to reflect on the privilege and necessity of dreaming. Through our dreams, we can access absurdity, simplicity, our deepest desires, and shared humanity: we can live the possibility of the future peace and safety for which we all yearn."
Choreographed and performed by Mads Ward and Maeve Friedman. Music and sound written and performed by Bly Wallentine and Erik Malloy.
Variations performed in Salt Lake City, UT, at 12 Minutes Max, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, and Monday Movement Lab in 2025.
Movement Reels (2024-2025)
It Used to Rain for Me, Too (2023) - Choreography
An interdisciplinary work combining voice, an umbrella, spoken narrative, and movement to explore what it means to take dreams as reality & fiction as fact through the childlike imagination that lives in us all.
“How magical it is, the rain when you are young, and how burdensome it can become.”
Choreography and direction by Mads Ward and Maeve Friedman. Performance by Bianca Calderon, Cameron Mertz, Grace Calderoni, and Jayda Escobar for SALT2's 2024 Winter Showcase, PLAYPRETEND.