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Find Me in Here. Hsiao-Wei on "opening segment"

The most exciting part in Esther’s rehearsal is you never get bored. Today she tried a new idea. (You can read her article—Opening segment - A Sketch) Although we had only three dancers this time, I felt my movements so limited when I danced. I had to aware of not only other dancers but also those chairs.

“Space” is an interesting element of dance. I never think about my route when I do some sequences because the space is big enough for all of us. But when there are five chairs randomly put in this space, suddenly they become 5 standing dancers/partners. How to present my sequences fluently with them? How to make relationship with them? Or do I need to ignore them? If they represent five clusters of audiences, how I design my route to go around and finish at the spot where Esther wants us to get together? Now, “space” is not only space between dancers, it becomes a relationship between dancers and audiences.

Finally, Esther changed her mind not to use this idea. But still, I had a good experience of becoming conscious that there are different meanings of space. I can create different visual impression if I think more from audience’s standpoint. Space can be dancer’s travel route, body shape, movement direction and also relationship with audiences.

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