Current works for tour:

Beyond a Shadow
is an exploration of walls and shadows for four dancers with a foreshadowing solo by Philippa Kaye with live percussion by Susie Ibarra.

Miraculous Arms, an A.R.T. by the Spinnerettes
is a contemporary fertility ritual for three women to music by female composers.

explores pregnancy, birthing, and assisted reproductive technology with laborious movement that stretches, pierces, and expands.  Counter to the sweet way pregnancy and impending motherhood is often portrayed (in soft pastel shades), MA conjures the grotesque, the physical realities on a cellular level, and reaches emotional states ranging from terror to ecstasy.

Surface
began as an investigation of fractals, and considers the infinite complications that arise the closer one looks. Exploring the permeability and turbulence which comprise our boundaries, three female dancers slide across a landscape of fabric and video. Video art by Daniel Vatsky, music by jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood.

Selected Quotations

“Kaye’s Miraculous Arms is a trio about A.R.T., as in assisted reproductive technology, spun by Kaye, Rachel Lehrer and Maggie Thom, a.k.a. the Spinnerettes. The soundtrack is a rich melange of gongs, words, video game explosions and pinball noises, probably pretty close to some of the sensations of going through the rough and slightly surreal experience of an A.R.T. attempt. The piece begins smoothly, with plenty of circular, scooping movement and much feminine group interplay and synchronicity. Elements of fun and humor crop up in hand-holding conga lines and take a turn for the surprising and absurd when balls begin flying onstage, singly and sporadically, and then more and bigger, eventually resembling artillery shells. Kaye also has fun along the way with baby bling and the baby burblings that come from grown women on seeing an infant. When the balls end up under the shirts of the performers, the connection between A.R.T. artillery and pregnancy is both funny and clear.“
– Quinn Batson,  offoffoff.com

“smart and diversely gifted”
– Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

“Philippa Kaye is a choreographer and dancer who creates wildly innovative multimedia dance pieces that display a deep fascination with science and technology while simultaneously maintaining a very tender and poetic attachment to the human. The company ‘embraces both scientific method and transcendence’ which sounds unreasonably ambitious, but is actually a rather accurate appraisal of a PKC piece. In one piece, dancers emulate cellular activity, in another instance, bits of data moving through a pipeline, in yet another, their movements are dictated by fractal algorithms. In one piece, ‘Ritual for a Non-Repeating Universe,’ the dancers explore chaos theory and unpredictable systems, with fragile moments of equilibrium and disarray.”
– Heather Wagner, Location One Blog, April 2007

“A strong début season marked by technical complexity and understated wit. In “Ritual for a Non-Repeating Universe,” the troupe dances as if guided by unseen forces. Crayons gripped in the dancer’s fists record their motions on the walls and floor, and when the lights go out, glow sticks tied to their shins and forearms leave florescent traces in the air. “BigMonST3r” has a more raucous score and approaches slapstick at times. But it’s ‘No Wake,’ an intentionally self-mocking, structured improvisation for Kaye, that gets the big laughs.”
– Brian Seibert, The New Yorker, 2004

“The witty, science-inspired choreographer Philippa Kaye presents ‘Landing Strip” a new solo that finds humor by juxtaposing human and bird flight, and ‘Zoo Parts,’ a series of animal courtship dances that’s also a preview of the water buffalo, baboon, and inch-worm representations Kaye will set loose in the Prospect Park Zoo in July. (University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St. 212-545-5322. May 1-3 at 8.)”
– The New Yorker, 2007

“Philippa Kaye ‘Surface’ — three young hardbodies with a triangle of fabric, oddly slow and sensual with a primal scream bent, crashing bodies.”
– Quinn Batson, offoffoff.com

“Philippa Kaye of New York City presented No Wake, a humorous self-reflection on the creative process of a dancer/choreographer making a piece in real time. Ms. Kaye hummed and hawed as she tried out different phrases, mixed genres and evoked an array of emotional palettes. At one point, Ms Kaye broke into a vaudevillian step routine, only to declare thoughtfully to herself afterwards that the piece needed to be more serious.”
– Cyrus Khambatta, DC International Improvisation Festival