ABOUT THE DANCES

Moon Tides
Choreographer Brit Falcon’s newest work, Moon Tides, is shaped by the dancers’ voices and their fleeting collisions layered through time. The movement is built collaboratively with the dancers, drawn from personal prompts, partnering games, improvisational scores, and gestures created in community. Sweeping group sections travel across the stage with speed, momentum, and grit, while quieter interwoven duets reveal moments of connection, support, and care. Like the moon and the earth to one another, the dancers both shape and are shaped by the shifting pulls between individuality and belonging as they grow alongside one another. The original sound score is developed and composed by Brit Falcon, with contributions from the dancers.

Reflections in Time and Space
Artistic Director Jennifer Bassage Bonfil’s new work, Reflections in Time and Space, celebrates her 20th Annual Concert with the organization, drawing from memories of past concerts and a curiosity about how memory lives in the body and brain. Inspired by shared and individual memory, neural pathways, and the brain’s duality, the movement explores patterns of connection through mirroring and response. The piece reflects the passage of time held in memory and the synaptic space where impulses are formed and reshaped. Original music by Brian Wood, featuring flute, piano, voice, and layered textures, unfolds as a living soundscape shaped by the emotional resonance of memory itself.

What We Cannot Build Alone
Choreographer Devin Oshiro’s new work, What We Cannot Build Alone, brings together dancers in a collaborative exploration of how individual voices shape and strengthen community. Blending precise angularity with grounded circularity, the choreography unfolds through themes of unity, contrast, support, and independence. Connections form and dissolve in ephemeral moments, creating a shifting architecture of bodies in space. Moments of unison reflect the experience of moving together while remaining true to oneself. Influenced by the abstract and geometric modern art of Wassily Kandinsky, the piece poses a central question: What can we build together that we cannot build alone? An original score by Zaq Kenefick weaves together atmospheric soundscapes, driving beats, and unexpected musical textures, shaped through play and improvisation.

About our Choreographers

Brit Falcon (she/her) 

• New York City based choreographer, educator, and critically acclaimed dancer 

• Earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland and a BFA in Dance from The College at Brockport  

• Teaching credits include Colorado Mesa University, NYU Gallatin, University of Oregon, Nazareth College, American Dance Festival, Gibney Dance Center, University of Hartford, Goucher College, and Performática (Mexico) 

• On faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and makes work with Falcon Dance 

Jennifer Bassage Bonfil (she/her) 

• Started teaching at The Wooden Floor in 2006 and is the current Artistic Director 

• Earned her BFA from Chapman University and MA from the University of Northern Colorado 

• Founding Company Member of Backhausdance 

• Previously taught at Chapman University, California State University Long Beach, and Santa Ana College 

Devin Oshiro (she/her) 

• Japanese–Mexican American dance artist from Diamond Bar, CA, who relocated to Seattle in 2025 

• Earned her BA in Dance, magna cum laude from California State University, Fullerton 

• Danced with Gibney Dance Company and worked as their Deputy Artistic Director of Community Action 

• Has presented work nationally and internationally including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 

PARKING: 

The nearest parking structure is at the corner of Campus and West Peltason, and is right next to the theater.

Parking: Regular price is $13; IBT discounted pricing is $10. Upon entry, please tell the kiosk attendant that you are an Irvine Barclay Theatre patron.
Please note that the parking structure is operated by UCI and not by Irvine Barclay Theatre.

UCI Parking’s online pay-in-advance system is available. Click here to purchase parking in advance

We do not recommend parking in the shopping center across from the theater, as spaces are limited, and non-customer vehicles are subject to towing.

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Arts Night Out

FREE bonus for Friday patrons!
Friday, May 29 at 6:45pm

Make it an arts night out! Explore the work in Grounded Orbits with the cast and choreographers Brit Falcon and Devin Oshiro at a free pre-concert chat moderated by Jennifer Bassage Bonfil, The Wooden Floor’s Artistic Director.

Presented by:

Thank you to our
42nd Annual Concert Underwriters!   

HONORARY UNDERWRITERS
The Beall Family Foundation
Helen Sperry Lea Foundation
WHH Foundation

ASSOCIATE UNDERWRITER
Socorro & Ernesto Vasquez

CONCERT UNDERWRITERS
Bobbi Cox
Davis/Dauray Family Fund
Yvonne & Damien Jordan
Linda and Tod White Charitable Fund
Cath MacIver & Jim Slaughter
Judith F. Posnikoff
Robyn & Dave Stauffer

CONCERT PARTNERS
Michelle & Timothy Dean
Janet & Walkie Ray

CONCERT SUPPORTERS
Sharon & Terry Hartshorn
Carole & Rich Lee

*As of 05/07/2025