keila cordova dances (KCD) began in 2000 with a mix of dancers, writers and musicians coming together to explore the inheritance of movement in collaborative workshops. The first evening-length work, Mamibaile (2001) – or "mother-dance" – explored how much of our inheritance is through the body, how the way we move is by no accident and how the stories of these movements are our familial histories. KCD next took on the physical and emotional language of the live music performer in Is This Sweet (2002), incorporating the spirit of the life of Tina Turner's early years. The Weather Project (2003) flipped the perception of local TV weather reporters from ordinary meteorologists into modern-day shamans. Big As The World (2005), incorporated a basket of fruit, crashing silverware, spoken word and four charged dynamic dancers who come together for a dinner party. Big As The World has been described as “a physical work that attempts to deconstruct a social gathering of women while encompassing the passions of the small ordinary aspects of our lives.” Girl "Y"(2006) examined structures of power and agression among young females. In 2008, Janet 2.0 (2008 was a playground of hyperbole, looking towards a future of celebrities and politicians blurred together. GOLD (2009) deconstructed old films and female archetypes to look for threads of continuity and to unravel possibilities of meaning. In 2010, the company began it's journey into memory with Little Pools (2010), asking what's the difference between memory and storytelling?
