Dance & Film

Summer Dregs is an Emmy & Image Award Winning audio engineer and composer. He has been commissioned by dance companies around the country to write original music for original choreography. These works have played everywhere from NYC to Paris to Rwanda. Genres cover everything from protest songs to modern classical. Explore some of my past work below.

He has also worked on films like How to Sue The Klan, and Commercials for clients including Office Depot, Oral-B, and Samsung.

Remember this house Remix

Composed by Summer Dregs and Mon Rovia
For the dance film The Light We Share.
The film has aired on PBS multiple times.

How To Sue the Klan

This documentary of how five Black women used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a case still cited in courtrooms to this day.

Awards include an NAACP Image Award, a Harlem IFF Award and was the official selection at dozens of Oscar qualifying film festivals. It has aired on both PBS and Aljazeera English.

Sound Design & Mix || Film Website

This Machine

A song made from sewing machine sounds to tell the story of the garment industry in my hometown.

Whiplash

A ballet by Kevin Jenkins and Ballet Counterpointe.
Full Score and Details

Home

An immigrant story.
Music composed by Summer Dregs.

What You Want

A Ballet commissioned by Ariel Rivka Dance for their 2022 and 2023 Spring Seasons, debuting at Manhattan Movement and Arts and NYU.
Details and Full Score.