The New Dance 2009
3. I am still working alone developing movement material. But in a process unique to this dance I find myself creating a warm up designed specifically to enhance the execution of these movements. Also I am currently thinking of using an environment sound score. Rhythms in the environment seem to me to interpenetrate forming a bank rather than distinct layers of sound. Then, after six months of messing around, I have finally mastered Adobe Freehand. This facilatates my notating enormously: for one thing it allows me to build an image library which I can transfer from document to document. I am hoping that these images may in turn may help me generate interest in and support for the emerging dance by means of REDBUBBLE. Check it out.
2. Currently I am developing movement.
I am working slowly, alone, and in silence, around 10 hours per week. So far the holding phrases all are metered. I need about 12 minutes more of raw movement material before involving dancers, which means I am months away from working with them. At this point I imagine the piece to be between 35 and 40 minutes long. I am thinking about the relationship between the music and the dance. In particular I am wondering if elements in the sound score can be derived from an electronic image of video footage. I want the development of the choreography and the sound score to be linked not by either the choreographer or the composer, but rather by a process to which both contribute but which has its own rules. 6/20/2010
1. The new dance is begun.
After the June concert I began again to take class daily. I have been in condition since October and now I often feel like going into the studio but so far I am ignoring that…. But I know what happens next. I will stop resisting and one day just find myself going where I have to go to do what I am going to do. This is not a choice….any more than a bowel movement is a choice. It is just an organic function of mine. Other people do not have the problem I notice! 9/2/2009