First Rehearsal Take 2

March 19th, 2008

Looks like Jason beat me to posting about the first rehearsal but I’m going to post this anyway.

I feel like we say this over and over, but the process is really collaborative. Swan starts by teaching us a phrase sometimes making adjustments as soon as he sees it on us. He doesn’t usually give counts but allows us to translate the phrase into our own bodies. After watching us do it, he uses the variations and changes that each person’s body adds to enrich the movement.

We’re working on a phrase with the group posed in that top photo. I think it might be near the beginning of the installation. We’re all walking forward slowly and little things happen. Just small, subtle movements so you don’t really know what’s going on. It could be kind of a mystical beginning to the piece but it could also go anywhere. That’s one of the great parts in creating new work; there are still so many possibilities.

Take for instance my character in Glassy Essence. I know the Swan and Francois have not finalized the story for the characters yet, but in my own mind I like to think of my character as a kind of angel. The ‘Bubble’ could be like a cloud… maybe? It works for me. I’ve always wanted to sit on a cloud. ;-)

I feel pretty good about rehearsal. We’ve been working on different parts of the installation leading up to this; the photo shoots, the flying, the costumes, but it’s great to finally start putting it all together.

-Jessica

Photo: Jubal Battisti

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