Duet at AGA at sunrise

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These were all taken by Ernest...

Katrina in the tire dress

Heidi working with limbs

Collage Process

We continue to meet in a very layered way, and did a 'show and share' of Spine, Limbs, and Optic Nerve today. I am purposely trying to introduce performance into the process, since the different sections will not interact with one another in performance. I want the performers to be able to conceive of the whole by placing themselves outside for parts other than the ones that they are in.  I am appreciating the density of what we are creating, and anticipate editing and clarifying as we evolve, but still with the same weight of material that we now have.

We played a bit with the video images for Spine with Eryn, which is going to be more interesting and pertinent to the whole piece than I initially thought.

It is interesting to have Ernest there photographing- a luxury in some ways, and it keeps things on edge a bit in other ways. I promise to post some shots of his process.

Now that we have our overall structure, titles, time frames, we just need to get the music and the journeys mapped out a bit more.

titles and one-liners

"Spine"
    location: under the stairs on 1F
    dancer: Eryn Tempest
   Viewing the body as an intimate landscape

"Limbs"
    location: RBC gallery on 2F
    dancer: Heidi Bunting
   Remembering the body as more than a sum of parts, in relation to missing parts

"Optic Nerve"
    location: 3F gallery
    dancer: Katrina Smy (dress by Sid Neigum)
    singer: Michelle Milenkovic
    An operatic and visual ode to the end of oil

"Organs"
    location: stairwell from 3F to 1F

            dancers: Eryn Tempest, David MacInnis, Gerry Morita, Matt Brault

   Finding love through gravity; falling and halting

Sound design by Shawn Pinchbeck
Scoreography by Gerry Morita
Mile Zero Dance