We invited Steve Luber to our dress rehearsal on Wed night, and he wrote a really great thoughtful piece on the work. You can link to it at :
http://obscenejester.typepad.com/home/2008/06/we-spend-a-thir.html
We’re off and running!!! Come see the show!
I’m in a liminal state. 4 days in the theater. Arranging, painting, choosing, oh yeah, dancing. Putting the pieces together, in a space that bore no trace of our presence before we started.
Build some platforms, paint the floor. Hang lights, focus lights, cue lights. Space the dance. Mop the floor. [...]
So, FREEFALL is pretty much a pick up company. We have a number of friends and collaborators with whom we work, in shifting constellations depending on the project. For lie, lay, laid our dancers are Carlton Ward and Uta Takemura. They are dreams as collaborators, easy to get along with and forgiving of [...]
FREEFALL is quite the collaborative endeavor. We were founded on collaboration, and continue that philosophy throughout our process. Next post I’m going to focus on our wonderful dancers, Carlton Ward and Uta Takemura. But today, its the rest of the team. We count ourselves lucky to have such a wonderful set of [...]
I tend to get pretty wound up about two weeks from opening. The material that we have so carefully gathered no longer makes sense to me. I forget what it was that made me really want to do the piece in the first place. Questions mount, solutions are harder to grasp, and [...]
Our June 15th performance of Lie, Lay, Laid will be held at 2:00 pm, not the previously advertised 8 pm. This can be explained in part by the number of bar specials available on Sunday Evenings, This gets us out sooner.
Hope to see ya’ there.
A very full trip to Chicago, where we performed at the Chicago Moving Company space, a beautiful performing space in the Hamlin Park Community Building.
We included a number of sequences from material we have developed from our upcoming show, and used four cuts from Ljova’s marvelous compositions for the show. Reception was quite wonderful, [...]
So friends from the Field dropped by on Wednesday, same day as the Creepy video. Aeric had left for another shoot, so I shot with my digital point and shoot. Aeric need not worry, but I do like the shots. Hope you enjoy them.
Uta is in California performing with Mark Morris, Carlton is performing in Detroit, so Lynn Marie and I are off to Chicago. We are performing in a Field Trips showcase on Friday night, trying out some of our lie, lay,laid material in a duet remix. It should be fun, we should learn something about [...]