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 all the rough patches we go through in rehearsals.

Digression here…They can’t be avoided I’m afraid (the rough patches). The best one can hope for is someone with whom you can struggle through it together. We are lucky enough to have two.

Lynn Marie and I met Uta back in Grad School, NYU’s Tisch Dance Program. She is simply a marvelous dancer and a wonderful woman to call a friend. She makes anything we give her to do both memorable and striking. She currently dances for a number of folks,including the large ensemble Mark Morris uses in Allegro and Hard Nut, and Pam Tanowitz. She is versatile, clear, unaffected and expressive as all hell.

Carlton we met when we shared a showcase with Jody Oberfelder (for whom I used to dance) and we loved how he moved. Sensitive, strong partner, centered and clear mover, and he can act. Well, Jody was nice enough to share him, as was Circus Amok. You see, Carlton also juggles, walks on stilts, balances things in the most unlikely of places, and generally completes physical feats I can only dream of.

We are lucky to have them.