After watching Monday's video - which I watched it too many times to count - I took the basic footprint of the movement phrase, and manipulated it to add more substance. I'm still mulling the results. Does it say/communicate what I want it to say?
While creating the newer version of the phrase, I was also working on the "Fridays with Full Radius Dance" class. I couldn't remember a CD I used for a stretching combination a number of years ago, so I pulled out an old notebook. I found the name of the CD and unexpectedly, found something more - a few lines of poetry that I had carefully tucked away, saving for a future purpose, words that were perfect for the current creative situation:
"It seems only yesterday i used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I would shine.
But now I fall on the sidewalks of life.
I skin my knees. I bleed."
- Billy Collins, On Turning Ten
I divided the lines amongst the two couples, and asked them to create movement informed by the words. The results were inspired. Here are Onur & Samir, Laurel and Marshall in the third rehearsal for "The Path Beyond", section two:
Again, great port de bras!
ReplyDeleteSo what got my attention was the end bit - both duets the same movement quality... it's the most intriguing and most interesting for me... I see the movement in both and forget who's who and just see the energy flowing ... I love it! I miss you guys! Gosh I just want to jump down the telephone line and have a rehearsal! I miss you all! I could never take that for granted! What lucky lives you all have!
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