Day 1: In Residence

the process… For the four months leading up to the show, my principal dancer and I had been developing a practice of making a dance a day. At the end of one week’s time, we then exchange a document of these dances with each other. A few days later, we present each other with a performed dance made in response to the documents we received. Then, these two performed dances form the base choreography for a new work or “duet” that I compose and which we stage for a live audience as part of our Invitational series.

On Day One, at 4pm, we started with the exchange and worked our way through to the duet by the end of the evening.

So just a note about “movement”
Yes, I’m talking about dance, and dances, and dancing.
But not dancers
Or perhaps a dancer stunted.

But the dance is an act of unlearning the needing of another.
An impossible dance?
Made up of pedestrian movements
Extrapolated from the everyday, handled, shaped into a stunted grace