A musician has a backstory that reveals itself in what they create, how they have conversations, their humor, what they listen to. In order to bring dance into a musician's performance when it didn't exist previously, I have to look at all these factors. I have to understand how and why their music is meaningful to them, and how they're comfortable expressing themselves with their bodies. Then, their dancing can feel like a natural extension of who they are.

For Drew's and Alex's Memories: Do Not Open tour, I was hired by Production Club, the creative team that built their show, to create a couple dance segments for Drew and Alex to perform and to come up with and direct the performer blocking for the whole show. I spent months listening almost exclusively to The Chainsmokers' existing and unreleased music to understand what they would communicate through their upcoming concerts. I met Drew and Alex, watched them in interviews, watched how they moved in recordings of their previous shows. And I found movement that felt like them for their dance numbers. And I blocked them and their accompanying musicians to maximize the visual of their unique personalities for the audience.

Client: The Chainsmokers
Producer: Production Club
Project: The Chainsmokers ‘Memories Do Not Open Tour’
Creative Director: Miguel Risueño
Choreographer: Lara Marcin