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| Dusk Dances 2000 provided us an essential opportunity to extend our craft in �conversation� with the shapes, textures, sounds and stories of city parks. Our choreography for Dusk Dances grew from our experience through the seasons, drawing on an unfolding creative process and emerging with new narratives and new discoveries. It was a process of letting go and taking new risks. Our fully collective process, which integrates each dancer as a choreographer, built on the playfulness of contact improvisation, experimenting with body rhythms, voice, prose, gravity, simple props, and working in concert with live musicians. We were able to synthesize these creative elements with our sensual experience of the landscape and the stories that it inspires, because almost all of our rehearsal and choreography occured on site. Our bodies were continually were in the process of learning this space. The space became �place�, both for us, and those who share in this experience. Our work is about �making space into place.� Our pieces are an event that brings people together to share an evolving experience . This process of gathering people throughout the seasons, invites people to step outside of their fast-paced lives, to stop for one moment, �and not move their arms so much.� This piece challenges the boundaries we construct between audience and performer, self and other, nature and culture, and the walls we erect between mind and body. We have used the contours of the park as symbols of such boundaries, and our choreography is a journey�ascending, descending, and moving in and between the diverse eco-tones that delineate this space. Our movements are suggestive of ways of blurring, transcending, redefining and eradicating these boundaries that we construct between ourselves and the world. |
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