Find Me in Here. Anna's solo.
Picking up where we left off last week, Anna's solo emerges from my phrase that everyone is repeating.
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5.31.2009
5.26.2009
Find Me in Here. Guiding as opening.
Here the ladies are dancing our new (and final!) opening, also known as the guiding section. We made some great progress in this rehearsal, clarifying performance attitudes and "details." My goal is to communicate cooperation and team building, and we were working on this section to make sure it is neither too internal nor too presentational/obvious/showy.
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Find Me in Here. Sarah's name dances.
Here are Sarah's dances in response to "Does my name represent me?" and "Do I like my name"
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5.19.2009
open studio 5.
Delightful! Two open studios in one day! And with an audience! What a difference they make! Dancing through my nervous excitement. Trying consciously to listen to them, to "connect" and be fine --all while composing.I do not have the innocence of just doing what I love -of "just dancing." Ten years ago this performance would have been no less self-conscious but without such a clear expectation of entrancing my audience -though in all honestly, I think I've always danced with the desire that I was enchanting someone and so always with an eye on people's attentiveness. Always aware when they stopped to watch. Blatantly and unapologetically, the bystanders watch.
Now I have the hope and desire but also the compliments in my head --and with these comes a fear of disappointment, which disturbs the honesty/genuineness of my performance. But I need to use this to get rid of it, work through my desire to delight.
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5.18.2009
open studio 4.
Sleepy again today.I had one really great run --but it was to music (which is against the rules). Why is it so important to practice in silence? Well, because I prefer performing in silence -largely because the energy between me and audience is so "loud" that I don't really "hear" music during performance anyway.
In practice, however, there is only the distraction of my thoughts, and I've been struggling with this all month. I so wish to give in, to say the music is my audience substitute, and it is but only in one respect -it guides and directs me, but then am I giving back? Can I "hear" my own decisions through the external rhythms?
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5.17.2009
Find Me in Here. Sarah's first name dance.
Ages ago the dancers created movement sequences in response to the question "does my name represent me? is it me?". Sarah finally gets a chance to catch up.
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Find Me in Here. A chat with Sarah.
Sarah and I talked briefly about what it's like to jump into this piece midway through.
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Find Me in Here. Hsiao-Ting + Hsiao-Wei Hsieh.
Hsiao-Wei and Hsiao-Ting break down the parts of their last name as written in Chinese - the is made up of other words (a whole is greater than its parts) and here we learn what they all mean.
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Find Me in Here. More phrase from Esther.
I am continuing to build on the phrase we started last week. this will be used as a transition phrase --just a little glue for the rough spots.
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5.12.2009
open studio 3.
VOICE - After nearly nine months out of the studio and out of dancing... this recording is an idea (that I came up with in my practice) while rehearsing what to write to my friends to make them as excited to attend this performance as I am to perform it (promote, promote, promote...). This recording is planned. My practice is also planned. These choices are not.I am sure I owe the inspiration for many of the movement choices tonight to the dancers in Find Me in Here, another of my current works-in-progress (August 29-30 at Green Space in LIC, 8pm...) because they are contributing most of the movement for that piece, and maybe I am dancing like them today.
[the above is a sketch of an idea for a voice recording I plan to make to accompany my May 28th performance of Open Studio (vs. 7)]
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5.10.2009
Find Me in Here. A short phrase from Esther.
Curve ball. I created this phrase. More of it to come. Sorry the end is out of frame!
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Find Me in Here. Chelsea's solo, part 2.
Chelsea finished her solo, here we see her picking up where she left off.
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Find Me in Here. Hsiao-Wei's solo.
Hsiao-Wei finished her solo today.
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Find Me in Here. Hsiao-Ting's section 3-2 movement
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5.06.2009
Open Studio 2.
It was difficult today to move without music. I just discovered Sufjan Stevens' music and am completely enchanted with his song "Sister Winter." (Listen to it here and check out Sufjan here). It is an entrancing song. Far more lovely to dance with the song than by myself. The music makes my body feel stronger and more alive than it is (well, stronger at least) and it is nearly impossible not to move with the freedom.But I did resolve to practice in silence for at least half of my studio time (the first half being devoted to warming up) and thus danced alone as planned. I found sort of a melancholy movement - a resistance to moving, but also a playfulness.
Mostly what I took away from this practice is that while I can move big, lush, and flowing-ly in response to the rhythms of sound, my own rhythms don't seem to exist. I (end up) exploring tensions in the body, stillness, slowness, and control.
In the moments of pause after dancing-- in there is what I am looking for.
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5.03.2009
Find Me in Here. Section 3-2
Here are a few moments from the new section, which I'm calling "section 3-2." I'm not including the whole thing because of poor camera framing (the rest of the stuff is just hard to decipher). At the end of the video, what you can't see is the chelsea-sarah duo joining the anna-HT-HW trio serendipitously with the same movement that shows up in the different sequences they're doing. We will come back to that for sure --it was a lovely moment!
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Find Me in Here. Following Chelsea trio.
I started a new section today, and this is a more fun take (handheld) of the new "following chelsea" trio. Chelsea created this sequence for the once-was "opening segment," and now she's dancing it with Sarah and Hsiao-Wei. The next video shows parts of the whole new section, including this trio.
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Find Me in Here. Talking with the twins.
Here I ask Hsiao-Ting and Hsiao-Wei to tell me what it's like for them to work on Find Me in Here which uses so much of their own movement, while also choreographing their own work.
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About Me
- Name: e m p
- Location: NYC
I am exploring how performance heightens philosophical connections between people. I founded Seen Performance (seenperformance.org) with David Morneau and Shana McKay Burns to help define this process through cross-disciplinary collaboration. While earning my MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University, I developed an approach to creating performance through methodologies borrowed from disciplines outside dance. Early in my training, I studied improvisation at Middlebury College with Penny Campbell, who practices it as a compositional form. This idea influenced me to think about dance beyond the immediate body, which has led directly to crafting audience design as part of my performances.
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