We opened Sixty at the Danspace Project on Nov 13, 9 days after the Presidential election, in a celebratory mood because Obama had won. The most thrilling part was finally bringing in our last collaborator: the audience always changes the work in profound and important ways. We were lucky to have fantastic, responsive audiences for [...]
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Final Sixty Journal Entry – January 22nd, 2009
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Sixty Journal entry #8 – October 31st, 2008
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Sixty now feels like a coherent whole. Over the last few weeks I was able to bring the whole cast of twenty people together for the first time. It was really thrilling to finally see in front of me what I’d been imagining for many months. The mix of dancers who have worked in the [...]
Sixty Journal Entry #7 – September 25th, 2008
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I felt excited and a little nervous coming back to Sixty after some time away to work on another project – like seeing someone you care about after a separation. Will they look different to you? Will you still like them? Whatever self-doubt was lurking peaked at that moment before I revisited Sixty.
One of the [...]
Sixty Journal With a Detour to 311: August 14, 2008
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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 [...]
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 [...]
