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.
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A hotel room was an unusual but very appropriate performance space for this series of dances which seemed to me to portray intimacy in different ways. The first, Apple, was provocative: the dancers’ movements and eye contact evoked a connection that was almost a hunger for one another. The audience, packed on beds and in corner chairs, selected the order of the remaining three dances to create a unique total performance. In fact it was a lot like playing with Legos (also the name of one of the dances) – you can make many shapes with just a few pieces. The Legos dance showed the myriad ways that people fit together and was very energetic. In the Shape Waltz, the dancers showed their partnership through their parallel movements and with traditional ballroom dance. Finally, Battleship seemed to me to bring out the quiet intimacy of a long-time relationship – the way one person can know exactly the soft (or weak?) spots of her lover. All together, a fabulously enjoyable performance!
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I’m trying to grasp the concept of modern dance. When reading your blog and watching your videos, I’m in awe. It’s so theatrical! I like seeing the stills above of “Apple” vs. the video clip on your website. Two very intricate takes on the same subject.