last night's magnanimous lesson:

May 28 is fast approaching

Has anyone ever felt ready less than two weeks out from a performance debut?

We started with improvisation. No theme, no choreography, no ideas. Just the two of us. Molly & Andy / Molly & Carole. The evolution is completely an idiosyncratic picture of each of us & our (mis)matched identities in contact. Quite honestly, the essence of the performance is captured in the candid image on the flyer. Hopefully, I can do it justice. I'll give the choreography notes as they now stand.

M&A
Lay down the rope. Make note of everything. Enter together & seek the design. Andy pauses. Molly is here & there. The Circle. The pose. Repeat. Meet. Present yourself. Make contact. Establish the connection, break, step in & out together forever until you are face to face. Strike a pose. Solo. Solo.

M&C
ba. ba. bah. baroom. oom. oo. o. o. o. oha. ooha. ohhha. oooah. ahhhhh. shta. pt. ob. cap. ta do ta da to doh! ba ba ba. shlopffa!! ah...we are siamese if you please. pta. wish. wash. wish. wash. wish. wash. wi. wash. wih. was. was. was. wa. wa. wa. s. .s.s.s.s.s.stoo. t. ba. t. to. baht. bah. buh. bah. ah. ah. ah.

Hopefully this doesn't discourage you from coming. I'm very excited about this work. I see it as dance theater completely. Not that it is a narrative in movement, or choreography with spoken text, but that it is an embodied expression of the total person. Not bodies isolated into parts or facets, the whole thing all together, all in the same moment: movement, energy, emotion, thoughts, memory, plus whatever the audience brings.