We Have a Piece

Today we ran the piece!
It was 48 minutes, including the detour we took to reconstruct a tower that Elise knocked down "wrong". Yesterday we practiced building that tower, and Elise breaking through it, about 6 times, hoping to achieve knockdown perfection. But today was a whole other story...
We have 4 more days at the Creek to get things all smoothed out. We continue to practice dancing in high heels, fur coats, and wolf masks. We will perfect the spacing between boxes to create a wall. (We open the big sliding door to let the warm air in, and the wind blows the boxes down. We rebuild the wall). We improve our teamwork. Daelik is pleased. He sees the logic of the piece. And the holes.
Cory and I need a better ending to our duet. I need a reason to leave him after we negotiate the building of our tower.
Susanne and Cory need a little more time together.
Sara's bag dance is getting better.
We leave imprints of ourselves on the floor, in sweat. My right hip is higher than my left.
Some pants need hemming.
Cory has to walk within the "state" that he is dancing in. The women get to drop states, and become totally pedestrian from time to time,
Cory may perform naked.
Cory is going a little mad trying to finish up the music.


Elise is the massage queen.
Danielle came into our studio at the end of rehearsal looking for someone to pull on her legs. I volunteered, but soon began giving her exercises. She brought me a shoe-shaped rock from the beach, in honour of our foot work.

Tomorrow, we continue our group warm-up with Susie, then Daelik, into contact improv, into manipulating Cory. I do a radio interview with Olga Milosevich at 11 am. We run the piece again, and find ourselves within it a little more deeply.



It's time for bed.


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