2018
They Say it's Spring
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Blossom Dearie
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs and Jason Schadt
Lighting Design: Jason Schadt
Premiere: Space Place Theater, Iowa City
Duration: 22 minutes
Dancers: 7 dancers
2018
When Trees Say Nothing
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Jean Fery Rebel
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Set Design: Mary Merkel-Hess
Lighting Design: Courtney Schmitz
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Premiere: Space Place Theater, Iowa City
Duration: 12 minutes
Dancers: 5 dancers
2017
Ask the Beasts (re-staging)
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Jean Fery Rebel
Lighting Design: Laurel Shoemaker
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Venue: Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City
Duration: 10 minutes
Dancers: 11 women
2016
HBHH
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Carter
Premiere: Riverside Recital Hall, Iowa City
Duration: 4 minutes
Performers: 1 dancer and 1 oboist
2016
Paquita
Choreography: Marius Petipa, restaged by Kristin Marrs, with original choreography by Kristin Marrs and the University of Iowa Youth Ballet faculty
Music: Minkus, Delibes
Lighting Design: Jason Schadt
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs and Jason Schadt
Performance Space: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 1 hour
2015
Charismata
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Carter, Dowland, Machuat, Part, Tye
Lighting Design: Laurel Shoemaker
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 15 minutes
Dancers: 6 women and 1 man
2015
Chicks Dig the Sac Bunt
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Freiheit
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Premiere: Iowa Summer of the Arts
Duration: 6 minutes
Dancers: 5 dancers
2015
The Inmost Part
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Perotin
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 6 minutes
Dancers: 2 women
2015
Alice in Wonderland
Conceived and Directed by Kristin Marrs and Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Choreography: Kristin Marrs, Eleanor Goudie-Averill, University of Iowa Youth Ballet Faculty
Music: Kronos Quartet, Acuerdo, Canaro, Bossacuacanova, Africanado
Lighting Design: Jason Schadt
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs, Eleanor Gouride-Averill, Kathryn Smith
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 30 minutes
2015
Ask the Beasts
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Jean Fery Rebel
Lighting Design: James Albert
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 10 minutes
Dancers: 8 women or 7 women and 1 man
2015
Hiding in Plain Sight
Choreography: Kristin Marrs and Ellie Goudie-Averill
Music: Paul Duffy
Lighting Design: Cassidy Johnson
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 8 minutes
Dancers: 9 women
2014
Sinfonia for Spring
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Tomaso Albinoni
Lighting Design: Margaret Mead-Finizio
Costume Design: Jason Schadt
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 4 minutes
Dancers: 6 women
2014
A Rose Has Sprung
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Helmut Walcha, performed by organist Delbert Disselhorst
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Premiere: First Baptist Church, Iowa City
Duration: 6 minutes
Dancers: Soloist
2013
40, 70, 110, 180…
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Four metronomes played by the dancers
Lighting Design: James Albert
Costume Design: Juliana Waechter and Kristin Marrs
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 9 minutes
Dancers: 4
2012
The Shape of Memory
Choreography: Kristin Marrs and Jessica Anthony in collaboration with the dancers
Music: original score by Jason Palamara performed live
Lighting Design: Cassidy Johnson
Costume Design: Adriana Fernandez
Set Design: Adriana Fernandez
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 20 minutes
Dancers: 6
2012
Paint an Inch Thick
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music:
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Duration: 7 minutes
Dancers: 2 women
2012
A Poet’s Love
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Schumann
Musicians: Bryce Weber, baritone and Lin-Yu Wang, piano
Lighting Design: Courtney Watson
Costume Design: Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 30 minutes
Dancers: 6 women
2012
Out of the Depths
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Alban Berg
Lighting Design: James Albert
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs, in consultation with Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer
Premiere: Space Place Theatre, Iowa City
Duration: 8 minutes
Dancers: 3
2011
Next Time, Suck Less: A Dance Experience in Two Acts
Choreography: Kristin Marrs, Erin Donohue, Margaret Mead-Finizio, and Jennifer Weber
Music: Arvo Part, Tchiakovsky, Minkus
Lighting Design: Margaret Mead-Finizio
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs, Erin Donohue, Margaret Mead-Finizio, and Jennifer Weber
Premiere: Public Space One, Iowa City
Duration: 30 minutes
Performers: 3 female dancers and 1 actor
2011
As the Heart Grows Fonder
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Brahms
Lighting Design: Alison Page
Costume Design: Alison Page
Premiere: Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama with Arova Contemporary Ballet
Duration: 4 minutes
Dancers: Female Soloist
2010
Alice in Wonderland
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Lighting Design: Kelly Maginnis
Costume Design: Mia Khayat
Premiere: University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts
Description: 1 hour original play written and directed by David Hanzal
2010
Lachrymae Antiquae
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Dowland
Costume Design: Kristin Marrs
Premiere: Unitarian Church, Davenport, Iowa; commissioned by Dancing for Diversity
Duration: 4 minutes
Dancers: Soloist
2009
Plus Je T’embrasse
Choreography: Kristin Marrs
Music: Blossom Dearie
Costume Design: Amelia Larkin
Lighting Design: Sean Kessler
Duration: 3 minutes
Dancers: Female soloist