Rehearsal 2 - Birth, Life and Death

Birth, Life and Death

We then looked at some of the ideas put forward as themes for the dance so far on the Discussion Page.  Sarah, Ronnie and Maggie chose to work with the idea of birth, life and death. 

They worked to generate movement around the mirroring and transforming process in Improvisation 2.  They took turns at leading and following, but they allowed the characteristics of birth, life and death to act as a guide to how they transformed the movement.  Thus they came up with three short solos that represented each of the three stages - birth, life and death.  The movement phrases had moments of similarity but also differences according to the character of the stage.  The dancers put them together to make this dance. 

We were trying to work around what Jeff talked about on the Discussion Page - about making a dance with multiple meanings, or possible interpretations.  Therefore the movement is abstract, rather than directly representational.