I was incredibly nervous for this rehearsal. It's been a good 6 years since I last truly choreographed a piece, but considering who I'm working with I really shouldn't have been too nervous. Teresa, May and Anne were very patient with me as I flailed about trying to work out what's been going on in my brain with this piece.
How difference choreographers work is interesting. Really, there are likely a bazillion different ways you can lay out a rehearsal process and I seem to have a lot of the conceptual components and feelings of the piece and a fairly (simple) framework set up of how I was the work stylized, but don't yet have a lot of movement. Yes, the key ingredient: movement.
One of the beautiful and greatest thing about dancers is that they as the choreographer is working something out physcially, they begin working it out on their own bodies in tandem. This is both unnerving, making me laugh hysterically and lovely.
This first rehearsal, albeit rough, was perfect for what it was: verbal vomit, physical vomit of general movement postures and translating those to other bodies. I realize that I move according to how I'm physically structured, naturally. This changes dramatically on other bodies most the time and sometimes, in that moment of clarity, it's precisely the same. Pop in a few more moments of what the dancers' bodies do naturally with my movement, changing it dramatically or subtley in that wonderful way and BLAMMO! You got yourself something to work with.
25 September 2009
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