Recently Holly has really taken me under her wing, and its an honor. I am now her "Administrative Director/ Rehearsal Director/ teaching assistant/Dancer" For a small 6 person company, that can feel like a lot of hats, but I LOVE them all. I have been spending my weekends training under Holly as a dancer in her company and also as a teaching assistant in commissioned work at San Jose State University. She is preparing me for a future of work with her and I am honored and inspired daily by her.
Holly's new work, WANT takes ten dancers through a shifting visual landscape of expressive physicality interacting on a modular set and animating the space with Projection Mapping Technology. This work captures the active drive of pursuing desire, want and hope against the contrasting images of arrested intentionality and the suffocation of passive inactivity. We hope to learn more about what we want, what prevents us from satisfying these "wants" and how any individual's want impacts the larger culture. Holly feels many individuals are overburden by their desires, rather than satisfied by the pursuit of them. Life is not about denouncing desire; but perhaps it could be about encouraging one to vividly live as an uncensored passionate human being.
There is a preview clip that Holly put together from our last video shoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwXA4ydMiU
You can also see other work that the company has done in the past year (when I was injured, wah wah) http://www.youtube.com/user/ledgesandbonesdance#p/u/0/P4Q6_mZO_Ik
This work is powerful beyond words. We have had amazing photo shoots (2) for it so far, but we wont be performing this project until Feb 2012. It seems so far away but this work is going to be so lived in and I can't wait for it. We are using a set and so far we have been working on a homemade kitchen table that Holly's husband built (its beautiful). Anyway, recently, the table has decided to leave some marks on my pale skinned body which aren't too pretty.
Thought I would share a few of the bumps and bruises I have gained over the past few days, There are too many to show really and some are really not in "appropriate places" to put on the internet so I passed. But there is a pretty hand print bruise on my butt...thats a classic! Photos don't seem to really give the bruises justice, but I think you will get the idea.
My Right Knee
Top of my Thigh
Inner thigh (and I kid you not, its even more purple today!)
The right side of my stomach
My right arm
The underside of the right arm
We are performing excerpts from this work in a couple weeks at San Jose State University, and as I prep for it, I have body wounds to show, clearly. I am in love with this company though, so no matter how many bumps and bruises I have I will keep pushing forward! It is a dream come true to be working with such a high velocity athletic dance company!
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