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I’m going to tell you my idea. I’ve been in San Francisco for a week now, working on a new piece for San Francisco Ballet. My process has been typical in that I received a surge of adrenaline over the weekend, which led me to a cocktail of sleeping pills, which led me to 3…
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Considering what information I give the audience outside of an actual dance I have made, is a dilemma. My default answer is: nothing. I tend to agree with Roland Barthes’s assertion in The Death of the Author that a work should stand on its own and that details of the creator’s identity should not be important…
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Feedback Another complication in the public-ness of making dance is the broken relationship with feedback. On one hand, there is the balletic archetype of choreographer as God: the all-knowing wizard of knowledge, never questioned or second-guessed. That is a real thing. On the other hand, we now live in a culture of most-complete equality of…
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One of life’s great dramas exists in the struggle between wanting to be seen and wanting to not be seen. There is an amazing example of this in our relationship with the internet. We want to make our opinions heard. We craft perfect self-portraits. The access to new and previously too expensive technologies let’s us now…
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I didn’t post last week because my head couldn’t structure a continuous thought. Here it is another week later and I still can’t, so I’m just going to talk to you from this place. Get ready to ramble. It’s the end of my first week of Smuin. It felt like a waterfall. The days are long…
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I’ve never quite been before where I am right now. I have a piece premiering with San Francisco Ballet on Thursday and then on Monday, I begin rehearsals for a brand new work for Smuin Ballet in the same city. Premieres are a hell of a thing. So much preparation and thought, attention to detail gets squeezed out…
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