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Revisiting a Dance... walking on eggshells

2/28/2018

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When you make work that is deeply personal, it can be hard to revisit. I am in the midst of dusting off Lauren & Bethany​, a work I made for an emerging choreographer's showcase in Indianapolis, to present at RAD Fest in Kalamazoo, Michigan next weekend. Sarah says this piece is a kind of child of ROSA: A Dance That Might Be About Roses, a work in progress conceived and directed by Sarah, and I wholeheartedly agree. Without ROSA and without Sarah, there would be no Lauren & Bethany.

I am having to step back into feelings of utter emptiness and it is HARD. To allow my body to remember what it felt like to walk into my house in Memphis and find it laid bare. That house and I had taken care of each other for seven years. On our last day together, I lovingly swept and washed her floors and polished the woodwork, and when I was done, we danced. In the months leading up to my move, Sarah and I spent so many delicious hours in the pagoda/studio in the construction zone for ROSA: A Dance That Might Be About Roses. ​​Words can not adequately express how achingly lovely that time together was: creating, laughing, crying, screaming... wanting so desperately to stop time from marching forward.

Have you ever felt as if a layer of your skin was missing??? That is what it means to step back into this work. To feel completely raw... To push against the emptiness, trying to be brave but failing miserably. To devour every last drop, SPEND IT ALL, and then slowly put one foot in front of the other. 
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4/19/2020 11:44:34 am

This dance is just as hard as the other routines that you have been talking about. I feel like I need to go and work out so that I can get back in shape. I am already working on how I can improve my upper body, but it has been taking quite a long time. I need to go and have a few more exercises. I will try my best to become a better dancer, so please help me, man.

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