This week I am exploding everything. I am left with what Angie said after my showing, that it feels like just the beginning and there is so much inside of what it is left to say.

My approach this week is to make it all more. I want the sections to have room to be more; to have room to breathe and grow and speak. I am beginning with the opening, which is currently a solo. I want to speak more to the idea I was working with using glacial calving as source material and inspiration. I feel that the current material is expressing the baseline of interest for me – the perception of this ginormous event happening quickly and constantly as slow then sudden. I think what I want to get into now is the evolution of this formerly uncommon event into something that is continuous and ever present and happening fast now always all over the world.

For the rest of the piece, I really want to focus on diversifying the timing and playing with the extremes of fast/slow and presence/absence in the perception of movement. I really like the idea of having movement so slow that changes are occurring almost beyond the perception of the audience. I also want to add a section that gets a little more into the floor because most of the movement has been in the mid-upper levels.

Sunday’s rehearsal went well trying to expand on the calving section. I think that it can go even further in terms of adding material and developing the vocabulary.

I’m experimenting a little more with the order. I’m taking the approach of thinking of my piece as a progression through the water cycle starting with ice, moving through water to gas, before returning to liquid but this time in a new form like in the ground or as part of a body.

I’m also thinking more about the framing and what I want to be focused on. In today’s rehearsal with Jenny and Lucy I experimented with moving angles to where I think the cameras will be and

In Wednesday rehearsal, we worked through the restructured sections and built on the final one. I am finding a lot of agency to change the phrases and movements and taking opportunities to try and expand on what is already there. I’m also finding myself being challenged by getting bodies in and out of the visible space. I think this draft takes on more of the intensity and quality build I’m looking to create by going from slower more full bodied flow to smaller, but still smooth, movement phrases, before entering into a sort of mix between.

Friday’s seminar showing really showed me that I have a lot to think about in terms of framing and spacing. Angie’s comment about taking out the moments where my phrase-making process is visible and coaching to create continuity of movement is feeling like my next step and also potentially adding material to be repeated for framing and zooming purposes which I really want to do and I think could be very cool.