Rehearsal 3 - Leaving Duet

(Project 3)

Melanie and Ronnie used Veronica's improvisation that we worked on in rehearsal 2 as the basis for this duet. They used mirroring, copying and transforming the movement. For the intention, they used the ideas sent in by Özgün, about leaving as being part of travelling.

Özgün:
I am a dancer from Turkey...the project seems interesting...subject in my mind is :travel. because the action 'travellin' carries a lot on his arms...as it means meeting new things, new lifes, new places...and it also means 'leaving' which is always hard...but to explore we should learn to leave...Leave our habits, friends, cities, family...
Travel is a good subject in my opinion. Many words are to speak of travel; and so many words to dance!

We were particularly interested by the idea of "learning to leave". Ronnie and Melanie began to work with accumulation, where a series of movements are built up through repetition from the beginning of the sequence and adding a new movement each time. This gave a sense of learning to the movement.

They began with small movement, and made it bigger, to show confidence, until eventually it became so big that it took them apart. We saw this as being like growing from childhood to adulthood - changing from an inward focus to an outward one - What's out there?

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