I'll Take SummerI'll Take Summer is the cabaret cure for seasonal doldrums...or summer songs for the winter blues. Opening vibrantly with Sly Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” we move from 70s soul to classic standards by composers like Dave Brubeck, Irving Berlin and Cy Coleman, as well as contemporary artists Christopher Cross, Stevie Wonder and Chicago. The set is a meditation on the fairer season with a sunny disposition on summer love, summer in the city, summer nights, even Sonnet 18 bemoaning, “summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” February 2007 at Don’t Tell Mama. Featuring Ryan Greer, Brad Landers and Bianca Saltaformaggio; Musical Direction and Piano Stephanie Wells; Drums Christopher Heinz; Directed by Joanna Greer.

Move To ExitSleeping Giant, theatrically explores the sleepy dreamscape of the night, combining a series of dances and the surreal poetry of Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Frida Kahlo and Joyce Mansour. Based on Jungian archetypes, the characters of Sleeping Giant personify the comatose commonalities in our collective unconscious – being chased but unable to move, caught in the spotlight unrehearsed, our deepest fantasies and most terrifying nightmares shared in the experience we call dreaming. "In the night you are there" (Robert Desnos). September 2006 at the TADA! Theater. Featuring Meghan Burns, Caren Chianese, Brooke Robyn Dairman, Brad Landers, Bianca Saltaformaggio, Ashley Walker and Nikki Wilson.


Move To Exit Old Hat, Kinetic Dance Theater’s premiere nightclub act and Cofounder Ryan Greer’s cabaret debut, is an admiring throwback to classic variety. With Ryan's jazz-tinged vocals, the nostalgic set showcases a criterion of composers from Arlen to Ellington. Dusting off the vintage routine, the act shares a reverence for yesterday while questioning today’s standard – so it’s not quite the same old song and dance. After opening Upstairs at Rose's Turn, the act was featured on Ken Kleiber's popular TV variety show That's Kentertainment, and Stu Hamstra of Cabaret Hotline Online raved, “Mr. Greer brings to the cabaret stage a style and flair...a delightful display of vocal and dance talent and grace.” April 2006 at Upstairs at Rose’s Turn. Featuring Ryan Greer; Musical Direction by Rachel Kaufman; Directed by Joanna Greer.  

The Cyclone The Cyclone is a dance concept piece comparing the struggles of the human condition to eerie circus acts. “Step right up!” barks the Ring Master, “Prepare yourselves for a wickedly entertaining spectacle!”  Under an ominous sideshow guise inspired by the gritty yet wildly charismatic Coney Island, the show brings certain societal trappings to the fore in order to spotlight their peculiarities. In 3 rings, Trained Animals, Clowns and Freaks and Juggling and Balance, an iniquitous array of characters offers mischievous circus performances, vignettes on the maelstrom of existence.  The corporate jungle, the carnivorous singles scene, the destitute hobo clowns, mental monstrosities, commercial hypnotism and an aerialist balancing on the wire are all part of the ride – this roller coaster called life. November 2005 at the TADA! Theater. Featuring Tory Schaefer and Meghan Burns with Rebecca Mae Palmer, Tiffany J. Midgett, Bianca Saltaformaggio and Ashley Walker

Third New YorkHere's To The 3rd New York is a one-act musical featuring an original book by Joanna & Ryan Greer and music arrangement by Stephanie Wells of legendary standards played with a modern funk hook. Titled from the varying parts of the city according to E. B. White, who called the third New York the greatest – the city of final destination, the city that is a goal – the piece advocates the dream chaser while taking a rebellious stance on the current state of the art. Especially concerned with the demise of American Musical Theater, it is a protest against corporate commercialism, conservative politics and the silencing of a generation. The show opens with a spoken-word manifesto and rousing rhythm tap to decree impending revolution, which eventually unfolds into a feverish rendition of Gershwin’s Oh, Lady Be Good sung soulfully to the city where success urgently calls.  Then, in a hip downtown bar, the third New Yorker is further revealed through conversations of hope, frustration and the challenges faced today. “The audience is taken through an entertaining and realistic ride through a day in the life of struggling artists trying to get by in New York City. Here’s to an inspirational story of survival, in the struggle to keep alive the creative spirit.” (Diedre Kilgore, NewYorkCool.com).  September-October 2004 at The TADA! Theater. Featuring Elissa Goldstein and Jamal Green with Michael Ashford, Daniela Galli, Ryan Greer and James Robinson.

Move To ExitMove to Exit  is a vaudeville dance theater piece, a Brechtian deconstruction of the dying process incorporating the 5 infamous stages from the Kubler-Ross study - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - presented episodically as a theatrical event. The show, in raw musical-theater style, follows one man to “the culmination of that long prelude called life.”  Seduced by the deathly personification of sleek, femme-fatale dancers lead by an enigmatic Host, his own hallucinatory fantasies, this Everyman finds himself suddenly in the spotlight to stage his final moments. Through a series of fantastical dance numbers, the Host directs his performance of a lifetime to a spectacular close. Move to Exit attempts to provoke awareness and reflection on the one true commonality for all existence – death. November 2003 at the Kraine Theater. Featuring Daniela Galli and Aaron Burcham Heisler with Jeanell Kelly Birk and Meghan Burns.