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In process showing + talkback

So, if you somehow escaped the emails and facebook invites and didn’t know, we’re showing two new sections of the AOMC’s New Epic!  It’s at Movement Research’s Open Perform Series this Wed. and I couldn’t be more excited.

It came together extremely last minute (which is very much not my style) but it gives it a certian energy and rawness that i’m pretty excited about.  As always with these showings, i’m looking forward to the oppurtunity of my dancers getting to perform and more people getting to see the work, but I’m also trying to utilize it as best i can as a choreographic tool.

Thus, i’ve got this bunch of questions about what we’ll be showing, and I’d love it if you felt so moved as to anwser any of them.  Of course, you’re more than welcome to just let us know your experience and reaction of what we present – that’s probably the most honest and most helpful – but i wanted to think about some questions as a starting point for anyone who wanted a little guidance or a specific question to anwser.

That being said, i don’t really want to put these into your head before the show if you don’t want them there.  SO, i’m putting the questions after the jump. Read them now, or wait till after, and i’ll also try to get video of the showing up asap, so that you out-of-towners and i-have-a-job-ers can join in. Again, these are just a starting point – please let it take you any and everywhere!

So, here we go.  For the first Section (Jon’s solo + Ilona and Lillie watching):

1. Where did you find your focus during this section?
2. If you found your focus split, how did that affect your experience? (ie: were you frustrated by it? Did you think it served a certain purpose?
3. How would you characterize the relationship between Jon and Ilona?  You can tell me literally, or just use words, or sounds, or anything.  If you had to compare it to an instance that you’ve experienced (in your real life or otherwise) what would it be?
4. What do you make of Lillie (seated, facing audience)? Did she do anything for your understanding of the section as a whole?
5. What does the lack of music and the verbal cues do for you, if anything?  If you had to add music or sound, what would you choose?
6. Who has the power here? (it can be a complex answer).  If I hadn’t asked the question, would power be in your vocabulary to talk about this interaction?

And for the second section (Ilona + Rowan’s duet:)

1. What is this section to you? What does it do for/to you?
2. Is this reality? Memory? Manequin? Metaphor? Other? Why?
3. Did the music give you too much information, or inform how you were watching, or some combination of the two?
4. In terms of how this relates to the larger piece (or whatever you know of it): is this the singular center or the entire universe/framework? why?

Again: no wrong anwsers, no intended responses.  Everything is helpful.
And so we begin:

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