Rehearsal 5

(Project 3)

15th June

We had our fifth rehearsal today - click here to meet the dancers.

We would like to have your thoughts on this work - what you like or what you think works best, suggestions for music or costumes, etc. We are also looking for an overall title for the piece. Please leave a message on the Bulletin Board, or email us at hands-on@satorimedia.com

A Beginning?

We worked from Clare's poem (see below) and some comments that Melanie (dancer) made at the beginning of the rehearsal.

T.S.Elliot - Excerpt from The Dry Salvages.
"Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at amy terminus...
....Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who saw the harbour
Receding, or those who will disembark.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind."

Melanie said that she finds it strange that when you travel on foot, you take so many small steps to make a journey.

We experimented with traveling using very small movements, so that the emphasis is on the traveling rather than the departure or the arrival. Each of the dancers came up with their individual journey, which transformed as it traveled. We then combined them to make this dance, which we think might be suitable for the beginning of the piece. Please send us your comments.

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Relationships Duet - with interference

In Rehearsal 4 we worked with Simon's video (see inspirations page) and the relationships duet that we had created in Rehearsal 3. However, Simon agreed with us that it needed something more, so we have tried again this time.

This time, Maggie allowed her movement to be transformed by the interference. So, instead of constantly trying to return to the original version, each time she repeated the phrase she added the changes made through the interference. At the beginning of the dance you see the original phrase and at the end you see the transformed phrase.

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