May 2009
Changing Places
Photo by Amanda Embry
April 2, 2009
We are still on schedule but Lindy has been sick for two days now. And today we missed her more than ever because we showed almost the whole piece to lighting designer Mike Riggs. Monday evening Sydney Maresca agreed to costume the dance and as of this morning we have rights to the music. The responsibility for the piece slips away from me and increasingly rests in the hands of others. SEV
March 21, 2009
The working title for the new dance is CHANGING PLACES. It is an abstract work for five women to Steve Reich’s Drumming. The dance is a kaleidoscopic defining and redefining of space by means of points, lines and planes. Stillnesses and place-to-place movements join to generate configurations which dissolve into, overlap, and punctuate each other. At this time I have 12 minutes left to choreograph, 6 minutes in the last section of the dance and 6 minutes in the first! We MUST have a rough draft complete by the end of April. SEV