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Idea, Movement, Image

Posted by DCA Theater on February 22, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, DanceBridge Showcase Winter 2012

Submitted by Madeleine Reber, participant in DanceBridge Winter Session 2012

Rehearsal this week was pretty heady – trying to bridge conceptual ideas and movement material. The exploration of awkwardness, in movement and in life, is leading me to think a lot about isolation and loneliness, the experience of feeling different. This brings me back around to how we respond to “difference” in others, how easy it is for a group of people to shun an individual who does not conform in some way. Here I am awash in big ideas and social concepts, wanting to bring it back to the body, and the choreographed image.

I am creating movement material that comes out of improvising with these concepts or improvising with more concrete images of people relating to one another or in apparent isolation (a woman on a bus, moving her hands in some mysterious, intricate pattern). Yesterday we worked as a group, building duets and some kind of aggressive collective frenzy. I don’t know yet what the duets are about. There is something there about anchoring and freeing.

We ended rehearsal talking about what kind of worlds we each create in our own minds, and how our individual neuroses manifest in personal metaphors.