Vencl Dance

This is an exciting time for me and I am finding writing about it difficult.  But the plan is to integrate the process of making the dance with that of developing the audience through building this web site.

So……

The choreography is progressing on schedule, that is 3 minutes a week and the piece is around 8 minutes from completion.  I will not break stride here.  We need a rough draft complete by end of April.  The concert is scheduled for June 18-19-20 at the Cunningham studio and the piece is an hour long.  The five dancers need to build stamina; I need to edit.  The working title for the dance is Changing Places but it needs explaining so I need to find another.

I am negotiating for rights to the music.  We have a lighting designer, Mike Riggs.

We will be holding two open rehearsals at Battery Dance, located  three blocks below Canal at 380 Broadway, 5th floor.  Dates are Thursday, April 23rd,  and Thursday, May 21st, from 12 noon to 2 PM.  Admission is free but space is limited so email me at   susan@vencldance.org   if you plan to come.  (By the way there are 95 steps up! )                       SEV   3/29/2009

end of the first week of rehearsals

to see more photos, visit our flickr page

I developed the material for the new dance over a period of about three years.  In order to do this I had to notate the movement material so that I could return to what I had made previously while at the same time freeing myself from the burden of remembering it.  I needed to clear myself of the old in order to embrace the new, and do this on a regular basis, systematically.  I continued a process I had begun earlier of developing a system of notating which involves words, symbols, and various sorts of images.  What is new about the system at this time is that almost all the material for the new dance is not only on paper but also on computer.

I have notated somehow or other all the material of all my dances.  So developing a system for doing this has always been a side project of my dance making.    Over time it has grown clearer to me what aspects of a movement sequence I must notate if I am to recover the material.  Increasingly this set of facts becomes smaller and begins to fall into categories. Images like the one above are scattered all through my notes and I will probably let them pop up here and there all  through this web site.                      SEV  3/14/2009

The choreographer,
890 Broadway, NYC.

Photo by Margaret Gosden, 2008.