White Wing Dove is a project that aims to unite artists and observers across genres through a mutual love of music and performance. We look to take recorded live concerts and transform them into accessible, inclusive, quality works of performance, utilizing and showing off the generosity and talent that exists here in Baltimore in unique combinations. With this style of performance, a community is built amongst the performers, so that while each song in the set is a unique combination of players, the entirety of the show is cohesive and impactful. 
White Wing Dove began in May 2019, with its first performance of Stevie Nicks's Bella Donna Tour first running in June and then once again in November. The performances each consisted of 25+ singers, musicians, dancers, visual artists, actors, hosts, and more. The goal of the project si to connect audiences and performers (many of whom may not have seen and/or worked with one another prior to the event) across a shared love of music and songwriting, while also providing a source of publicity and revenue for the artists involved and an accessible, budget friendly, and recurring show for patrons. 

404 combines the urgency and immediacy of pop music with intense projected visuals and disparate choreography to enhance and effectively narrate the internal struggles associated with anxiety, displacement, disappointment and then re-emergence through these. The projections alter the body, the body alters the words, and the words guide the music. No one is in control, but every element is fighting for power. Conceived, written, performed, and designed by Corey Hennessey, with original music by Andrew McVey, Derek Vaughan Brown, and Jerz Durkin, 404 premiered in May 2016 as  thesis production in Towson's MFA Program, but has stayed in a constant state of growth, even showing itself as an MTV Unplugged styled version at the Stillpointe Theatre in June and July of 2016. 

Unhinged is a story telling session, weaving together original music from the show "404" and covers to tell the unique but universal story of entering and completing graduate school in your mid-twenties. Created and performed by Corey Hennessey and Andrew McVey, Unhinged takes on a very MTV Unplugged style setting, cozy and intimate, as the storytellers, accompanied by only an electric guitar (and at times an electronic beat) reveal their inner truths. The music ranges from spacey ballads to country-style stomps to unexpected mash-ups. 

My first wholly original work, Shapez is an exploration into the idea of combining photographic compositional concepts to performance, particularly geometry and cropping. Inspired by the works of Robert Mapplethorpe, the piece consists of multiple segments connected through overlapping projections and repeated movements. Through the piece, two performers (myself and Caitlin Rife) navigate a two-dimensional landscape of projected imagery, creating moments in three dimensions where the light allows.
For Shapez, I created all still imagery choreography, and assembled all found film, music, dialogue, and lyrics into a cohesive whole performance. Shape ran approximately 17 minutes and was featured as part of Sextant: An Evening of Works In-Progress at towson University.