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Find Me in Here. name dance 1.

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Using the material the dancers created the week before, I set this 5-min segment, largely just to explore the process of crafting a work out of their movement.

It was challenging to insert my own creative voice into the dancers’ work - or rather, it was difficult to see my own creation within their movement. I enjoyed working as an editor, but I didn’t feel much of a connection to what I was making. I was making compositional choices rather than emotional or exploratory choices, and generally my work is more of a blend of all of these. But I have to remind myself that the sketches of movement that the dancers created were “simple” reponses isolated from one another, and that the questions I put to them* are still just questions for me. Starting points without a strong feeling of an answer. It was an odd experience, “creating” something to which I had no deep attachment.

* I asked the dancers to create movement in response to: “Do I like my name?” and “Does my name represent me? Is it me?”

Next week: I will continue working with what we have built, trying to find more questions within the questions to spark some emotional charge from the choreographic sketch.

Homework: We’ll try to hash out what we’ve uncovered about our different relationships to our names and our identities.

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posted by e m p @ 11:04 PM