We had to put Sixty on hold for a while in order to focus on creating 311, a piece commissioned by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for Sitelines 2008. 311 was made to be performed outside the Municipal Building, near the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. I chose that site because of the stunning architecture [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Sixty Journal With a Detour to 311: August 14, 2008
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Sixty Journal #5: June 9, 2008
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As I work with the dancers on creating Sixty, I’m constantly reminded how fortunate I am to have such incredible talent in the studio with me. I wrote last month about a dilemma we faced with a section that involved Paul taking photographs of Eun Jung. Nothing we tried removed the sense that Paul was [...]
Sixty Journal #4: May 15, 2008
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We showed several new sections of Sixty at DTW on March 20. I was particularly interested in people’s reaction to a duet that we’re working on for Paul and Eun Jung. The duet is in three parts. The first is loosely based on one of the duets in Heatwave, another section of Sixty. It’s an [...]
Journal Entry #3: February 2008
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As I continued to sort through the responses to my request for ideas on which to base a dance, I was led to Salamone Rossi, a prolific Italian composer, by Laurie Uprichard and Phil Sandstrom. They suggested I make a dance to Jewish music from the 1600s. Rossi’s music is gorgeous and, like other early [...]
Journal Entry #2: January, 2008
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Sixty is growing. We’ve now performed The Long Haul and Heatwave several times. At our last showing at the 92nd Street Y on Nov 30, Vicky Shick and I performed a revised version of Reading Aloud, a trio for the two of us and a book. Audience feedback from these showings has been very helpful. [...]
Journal Entry #1: November, 2007
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I feel like I’m sitting at the top of a mountain with a 360 degree view that lets me see my life from every angle – back, forward and around. I have found that when you travel a road, especially by foot or bike, the same road looks very different when you turn around and [...]
