Nola & Jillian started out exploring an image that came out of an improvisation at the first rehearsal: a dancer with her elbow stuck to the middle of the other dancer's back. We improvised around this until we arrived at set material. I also added a text improvisation where Jillian would state factual information and Nola would disagree by saying things like "not true", "false", "impossible". This idea was sparked by thoughts about what it means to expose a fraud. A personal fear of being thought a fraud or wrong when I know I am being truthful was also woven in. We decided that this duet, which travels the diagonal from upstage right to downstage left, will happen twice during the piece. The first time Jillian will be listing true facts about film exposure, and the second time she will be telling a personal story (personal meaning true of her character, drawn out of material generated by cast personal experiences, not necessarily the personal experiences of Jillian herself).
Nola, Jillian, Julie & I all wrote in response to the following creative writing prompt I came across:
Write a formal complaint letter to your deepest, darkest fear.
With Julie, we used her writing about fear of open water to each generate a movement phrase. We mixed the two phrases together and toward the end segued from solo to duet, adding some brief partnering material. The movement draws on the idea of the horizon, and of breath in relation to fear and to water.
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