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lie, lay, laid: Hilton Hotel room 1227
January 12, 2011 – 12:19 pm
Lynn and Lynn Marie performed duet excerpts of lie, lay, laid in the Hilton Hotel as a sneak preview of their 2011 tour of hotel room performances.
New Orleans photos
November 21, 2010 – 3:08 pm
Some folks from our second night in New Orleans. Cheers!
Hotel Adventure
January 15, 2010 – 9:58 am
So FREEFALL got a room. During APAP this year, we booked a room at the Hilton (APAP Central) to stage a mash up of duet material from lie, lay, laid. In the coming year, we are going to be finding ways to recontextualize this full evening from 2008. So this was our first experiment.
Here we are, hanging out. A little food, a little wine. Folks came and went the whole night, including Isabella, our youngest guest.
So when we got what felt like an audience, we’d show a section we call “Apple”.
Then we’d offer three other sections, titles “Shape Waltz”, “Lego” and “Battleship?. Guests got to choose the order, and we then performed it.
We had a blast. Hope we can do something like it again sometime soon.
I’ll Crane for You–the movie
September 3, 2009 – 2:40 am
Photo of LMR by Aeric Meredith-Goujon
These are a few stills from the movie adaptation Lynn Marie and Aeric are making of I’ll Crane for You, choreography by Deborah Hay. Our process has involved closing down our Lower Manhattan studio into the most intimate of spaces. We started in the bathroom, moved into the stairwell, and spent the last few weeks on the fire escape. One week in August a bus load of tourists in matching tie-dyed shirts spilled off the bus and milled around across the street taking their own photos and waving. It was quite wonderful to “crane” for them.
Building phrase on MOD
June 19, 2009 – 5:51 pm
My interest in the MOD has shifted once again. It seems to me that creating these disjointed moves is fun, but they have no context. So, until I get bored with this idea, I’m going to build a phrase, move by move, until I get bored. I’ll always start at the beginning of the phrase, and add a move a day, putting it in different locales and viewed from different angles.
Phrase began on move xcvii. Thanks.
Reflection on the M.O.D.
June 9, 2009 – 3:18 pm
It hasn’t been the daily habit I hoped it would be. And I started doing it with no real understanding or reason for doing it. I was devastated when I hit my first roadblock, and missed some posts. But my relationship to this has certainly evolved, and I’m making some new connections to it that feel right and important to me.
The MODs themselves don’t take very long to do. And there are days that I DEFINITELY throw something up there just to check it off the list. But I’m discovering some interesting things about myself, my eye, and my reasons for doing this pointless thing.
What really completed a circuit for me happened yesterday on the subway. I was rereading “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde. I’ve decided its a book I need to reread on a regular basis. Well, I’m rereading the opening chapters of the book, when something makes sense. (Not a given when I’m reading BTW) Gift giving, or the passing on of a gift, recognizes that the gift or the prospects of gift is not a limited resource. By giving with no thought to its material Value or Usefulness, one helps to ensure the continued visitation of other gifts. To commodify the gift, to give it with expectations for repayment or to gain an angle, is to kill the resource.
So here is my personal connection. I gain nothing from the MODs. Except that by symbolically throwing his stuff out to the world, I am ensuring my future access to moves that perhaps I can use. I think that I have engineered for myself a symbolic sacrifice of short ideas, to ensure the continued flow of other ideas. Crazy probably. But it resonates pretty strongly for me right now.
Okay, more MODs are coming up…may they continue to flow…the good, the bad, and the completely unmemorable.
Our First Cafe
May 28, 2009 – 8:35 am
Whew…just got back from Maryland…and my arms are tired. As is the rest of me. But we have something new and exciting coming up, this Friday night. Our first cafe evening, this one at the Orchard House Cafe. Info below…hope you can make it.
Physical Fictions…
Friday, May 29, 8pm
at the ORCHARD HOUSE CAFE: 1064 First Ave (Southeast Corner 58th Street)
E/V/6 trains to 58th St
features performers Lynn Brown, Lynn Marie Ruse, and special guest star Kristi Spessard in all new work. Choreography by FREEFALL, Deborah Hay, and Kristi Spessard.
Information: www.freefallnyc.org or 212 995 0149.
Its Spring!
March 26, 2009 – 6:11 pm
So far this Spring, we have revived 6 dances from our past, both on Long Island and at the University of Maryland. Its been great to revisit and stage these dances. Its also been a real pleasure to dance with long time collaborators…Mary Spring, Alison Russell, Carlton Ward. One of the highlights of our experience as a company are the people we are lucky enough to work with.
Coming up…Lynn Marie is performing her Deborah Hay solo “I’ll Crane for You” on April 11th in Brooklyn…and we have another trip to Maryland in May.
By the way…the move of the day has encountered some terrible technological difficulties. The problem is I had a “foolproof” method of delivering the move to the web daily that rested on the capacity of my compiuter to do its job. Well, my computer is going through death throes right now…and until I get a new set up…it will have to wait. So sorry…In the meantime, feel free to visit the M.O.D. archives…over 70 short videos of moves from the first of the year.