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Find Me in Here. Opening segment - take 3

One more day working on the opening segment. I tried out the new audience set up, where the chairs create a box with a usable perimeter as performing space. It wasn't doing much for me, so we'll scrap it when we come back to this section in a few weeks. But we made some great progress on each of the dancers' "stories" for this opening sequence.

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Next week: We move on from the opening segment (we will revisit later, as it is far from "done") to work on the big picture (I like working within a big picture, more room to play).

Here's an idea for a basic structure:

1. Opening chaos moves into formation of a group


2. Time spent as a group


3. What the group does to the person


4. The individual


5. The group again (why? how'd we get here?)

What would these sections looks like? There's the bigger challenge. I am very drawn to this idea that groups limit and enable our personalities. So I'm working on different ways to bring boundaries into the movement and the relationship between the dancers. Check in next week to see what I came up with!

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posted by e m p @ 10:37 AM