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lie, lay, laid excerpts

Live performance of FREEFALL’s lie, lay, laid at walkerspace in New York City. Featuring Lynn Brown, Lynn Marie Ruse, Uta Takamura, Carlton Ward, and the music of Ljova Zerban. Co-starring 16 mattresses, a bushel of apples, and a bird’s eye view for the elevated audience.

60×60

There is a really cool event happening at The Winter Garden here in NYC on Friday, November 14. 60 choreographers have each been provided with a different one minute original musical composition.  The assignment: to choreograph a one minute long piece that uses the music.  The 60 compositions will be presented back to back, on [...]

How do you define portrait?

A very different post today.  Lynn Marie and I would like to solicit some responses from anyone who comes across this blog.  The process of lie, lay, laid has sparked in us a curiousity about the experience of folks who had their photos taken, or who have looked at the photos on the blog.  The [...]

I’ll Crane For You: Scrapbook

I’ll Crane for You (or How I Spent My Summer Vacation)

I danced the month of August away: first in London,
then in France,then I took my underpants to Findhorn,
Scottland to an intentional community–code for
communal living, Scot-style (organic wine and
whiskey; naked swimming in the North Sea). I
lived in a caravan–code for trailer–with two
other dancers.

I’ll Crane for You is the title of Choreographer
Deborah Hay’s Solo [...]

SLIDESHOW

I selected photos from our performances, photo booths, and benefit party to make a video slideshow that we hope you enjoy.  Big shout out to our photographer, Aeric Meredith Gujoun (check him out on facebook), and our composer on the project, Ljova (myspace might be best for him).  A big thank you to everyone who [...]

We’re Back!!

Lie, lay, laid may be a memory now, but life goes on.  Lynn Marie just came back from Scotland where she worked with Deborah Hay.  Maybe if we ask real nice, she will write a little about it for the blog.
Lynn has started as a full time teaching artist at Lincoln Center Institute…and art days [...]

Performance Pix

Aeric shot these at dress. Check out more by him at aericmg.com.  Enjoy…

Time to Reflect

Well, the first (and we are determined that this is but the first) performance run of lie, lay, laid is history. We are very happy with the realization of the work. Onward and upward.
Just after the weekend, I had to run off and teach, while Lynn Marie taught our two marvelous interns Brighid and Melissa [...]

Show info one more time

Remaining performances are:
friday, june 13 @ 8 pm
saturday, june 14 @ 4 pm
saturday, june 14 @ 8 pm
sunday, june 15 @ 2 pm
Tickets are $15 for students/artists…$20 for everyone else
46 Walker Street between Church and B’way in lovely Tribeca