Music
Where Music Meets Movement
These videos fuse our original metal compositions with visuals from the stage, including stills, live footage, and projected visuals drawn from Dark Ballet performances. Sound, motion, and message become one.
The Weight of Unfortunate Circumstance
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War God
Performed on June 28, 2025 at The Egg (Albany, NY), with music & performance by Dark Ballet; choreographed by Jillian Ruddy & Marin Lomen in collaboration with Spendwood School of Dance. Tap Lead: Teagan Susco. Video artist: Martin Vrigsjo. Photos vby Rich Krissel and Timothy Reidy.
This ballet is a collision of rhythm, defiance, and truth. A metal-driven score and percussive choreography forges a single battlefield where every note and step wrestles with the contradictions of war. Fueled by our collaboration with Spendwood and Teagan Susco’s razor-edged tap lead, the piece moves from relentless drive to stark stillness, confronting the spectacle of conflict and the human cost beneath it. More than performance, War God is confrontation and resistance: art sharpened to a blade.
Girl in the Tree
Performed on June 28, 2025 at The Egg (Albany, NY), with music & performance by Dark Ballet and Spendwood School of Dance; choreographed by Jillian Ruddy & Marin Lomen. Video artist: Martin Vrigsjo. Photos by Rich Krissel and Timothy Reidy.
This ballet blends Dark Ballet’s driving rock score and classical lines into a stark, compassionate memorial for girls whose pain goes unnoticed. Inspired by real events yet speaking for many, it gives voice to lives lost to abuse and neglect and urges audiences to move from silence to witness—and to action. Content advisory: references to sexual assault and suicide, and the broader social systems that commodify and control women.
Queen of the Night
Performed in November 2024 with Skidmore College Department of Dance at Skidmore College, choreographed by Jason Ohlberg. Video artist: Martin Vrigsjö. This ballet blends Dark Ballet’s driving rock score with powerful movement and visual storytelling. A mother, the Queen of the Night, journeys through darkness to reclaim her lost children—brought to life through live music, immersive choreography, and audience interaction.
Spectres of Solstice
Performed in November 2024 with Skidmore College Department of Dance at Skidmore College, choreographed by Jason Ohlberg. Video by Martin Vrigsjö.
Rooted in ancient myths of Jol, Yule, and Saturnalia, this winter ballet fuses Dark Ballet’s metal compositions with haunting choreography and immersive visuals. Spirits of the solstice rise and dance through shadows and light, celebrating the eternal cycle of life and death.
The Flyers
Performed on June 28, 2025 at The Egg (Albany, NY), with music & performance by Dark Ballet; choreography & aerial direction by Christine Newmann & Emily Meister. Props: Annine Everson. Photos: Rich Krissel & Timothy Reidy. Libretto & composition: Jeff Moore.
The Flyers is a meditation on humanity’s restless urge to leave the ground—our centuries-long faith that wings of wood, cloth, steel, and silicon might lift us toward freedom and progress. Dancers embody ambition and fragility, soaring and falling in the same breath as Dark Ballet’s rock score shifts between awe and aftermath. Not triumph or tragedy alone, The Flyers asks what it means to risk everything to rise, knowing the ground is always waiting.
Jingle Bunny Jane
Performed live at The Egg in Albany, New York with music & performance by Dark Ballet; choreography by Spendwood School of Dance in collaboration with Good Karma Studio (aerial direction). A mythic fever dream where heavy metal riffs collide with surreal storytelling, this piece pulls the familiar inside out—playful, chaotic, and dangerous. Magic is afoot as Jane tests Crimson with the Dance of the Abyss; above, Good Karma’s aerialist threads danger and elegance, while Spendwood’s choreography grounds the tale with humor and raw intensity. Together they forge a spectacle that is equal parts rock, ballet, and rock fairytale.