Alabama 01
I’m dreaming that I’m organizing a nude photoshoot of over 100 dancers in the courtyard of a Bavarian cottage. There’s a French woman there assisting me who’s modeled for me before. She’s very hard and matter of fact. One of the new models who shows up for the shoot of 100 dancers asks the French woman what she did…
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Everybody always said that when you live in NY, you have to get away to the country sometimes to just decompress and turn the valve off on the constancy for a few…so you can keep going. I always thought: get over it. Go to dinner. Stay home. Check out for a second. But then I…
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On the first day I was an hour early for rehearsal so I sat on the hallway floor and stared at the back of the door to the studio, waiting. The dancers were having class inside and the entrance vibrated from the pounding on the floor and the music…a tiger in a cage under a…
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I have never really thought of legacy as important. I have mostly considered it a misguided attempt at the invention of immortality. Perhaps you could exact even a great influence that penetrates the iron walls of death for a time, but at best, we will all be forgotten in a few generations, if not in…
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Upstate NY is every snowy dream. It is what the movies look to, to art direct cold, to paint Christmas, to make silence audible. The big city accumulation of noise is so out of the question that you can hear snowflakes whooshing past your ear. The crunching under my feet is the alpha dog in…
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Originally published Dec 10, 2017 Here are some excepts from my recent diaries while shooting and choreographing in NY… “On the plane to NY. My furnace is on high. The same bottomless sound from a stereo turned up full-blast as the one that makes it possible for me to tech a show in 2 days…the…
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