Conversation Piece

Finally, some video of rehearsal. This is an improvised trio from the Conversation Piece rehearsals. We work quite a bit with improvisation, to really inhabit the movement material, to discover how it interacts with other movement, to find the variety of movement qualities possible for the vocabulary. Everything we do is focused on coming into communication with another person (or people), developing and practicing this sort of non-verbal communication and awareness. I am in awe of my dancers' ability to open themselves to this kind of work. We have been learning and talking a lot recently about the different ways we each communicate and how that translates, or doesn't, into our movement style. We've done a lot of work in duets, but not much in trios, so this is an exploration from a few weeks ago, to see how each of the dancer's individual movement might work together.

I thought hard about whether to share video from this rehearsal in particular, because the atmosphere we create together seems almost sacred. I wasn't sure if I wanted to open it up to other people. But, ultimately, I'm thrilled with the kind of work we're doing here, and wanted to share it with you. The dancers are Melanie Greene, Ally Lloyd, and Morgan Carroll.