Also, this weekend I performed with Travesty Dance Group with TDG/Cleveland Director Kim Karpanty. She and TDG/Houston Director Karen Stokes presented work at the Weathervane Playhouse in Akron. It was a well-balanced concert that clearly showed the distinctive voices of each choreographer, as well as the talents of their respective performers, and afforded me the opportunity to perform with Kim in our duet "Straight Forward & Slightly Off Kilter."
Rehearsals have resumed for MOLT. Greg D'Alessio's score is nearing completion; and James Longs is finishing the building and detailing of the set. For my part, the costumes are well underway...I have pieces cooking on the stove as I write this. A section of MOLT was shown as part of the the Cleveland State University Spring Dance Concert this past week. I am extremely grateful to Lynn Deering and the CSU Dance Program for the opportunity to present the work.
I have mentioned the length of this process on numerous occasions. Now that I find myself near the end of it I want more time, of course. As always, I feel that I can finally see the piece and I fear that I have not fully investigated all of the possibilities. The dancers are keeping me honest with their questions and requests for more clarity of intention on my part. I appreciate the fact that I they are so adept at making choices in the moment and willing to challenge me to look more closely at what we are doing and why and how and so on and so forth.
MOLT photo by Larry Coleman: Jenita McGowan in lakeside nest by Brian Meggitt
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