all the great and terrible feelings that both float along side finishing a new work. it was such a satisfying weekend of performances. half of the room, with all of it’s interrupters/supporters/disrupters/enablers; a different cast each performance, a different set of obstacles and invitations to engage and negotiate each evening – it all made for an incredibly exciting series of performances for jason and i. it kept every performance feeling so unique and fresh. as performers it kept everything so genuine and real. we really didn’t know what to expect from each evening and each performer. some more than others, and some more general expectations given how we know and what we have grown to know from each performer we worked with. but the details, they were happening and falling in our laps as it went on. different than improvising though – we had this set duet that we journeyed through. sometimes in its entirety with inserted moments of new/spontaneous ideas – sometimes with lots of holes and skipped ideas based on where our guests’ contributions took the piece. the duet itself though, which shaped itself until the very last moment, actually turned out to be quite satisfying artistically. it very much built on where we have been but turned a different corner than in the past. i am intrigued by it, so much so that i hope that we go back and look at it more in depth on its own – as well as within the world of the external interruptions and structure that we have set up for half of the room. thats were the excitement comes in after this show. the satisfaction and intrigue about how it unfurled in performance and the possibilities of where it might still go with more exploration and performance. and there in lies the sadness, the ending of something. ironically timed so perfectly with the ending of our period of artistic exploration with christian, saying goodbye to three months of daily practice and investigative conversations about “the work” of dance and movement. ending also is this particular structured time for working and performing half of the room, the ideas, the movement, these collaborators. I mean we have more to come, more performances, more rehearsals, more projects with all of these wonderful collaborators, etc etc… but just the same, it’s an ending of something, a couple of things even.
thankful for this beautiful springtime weather in NYC today – keeps the focus on the renewal and the things to come…
-lindsey
Fly on the wall 