After a weekend of reflection and rest (for most of us, lol, I had to work but hey ho lol) it was great to be back in the studio even though it was slightly colder today even with our little heaters
Spent the morning refreshing two sections from ‘Five Dances’ which was great to see how well the movement vocobulary and quality have remained within the body. Slightly sketchy but wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be. Just need to spend studio time re-affirming ourselves with the music so it feels organic and to play with the different relationships between us as each section takes place.
Composer/musician Ronen Kozokaro came into the studio today, which was really exciting. We spent time refreshing each piece of material from solos, to duets and ensembles, trying changes of facings and putting them together in a rough structure for Ronen to see what we have created. He seemed really excited and eagerly disappeared with his laptop to play around with the score. I’m eager to see and hear how the music develops now this week.
We spent some time exploring the idea of falling off balance into the path of light that we have been playing with, using this to traverse across the space replacing each other, so hopefully with light we appear and disappear through the shaft of light leaving limbs entering or leaving the space.
To end the day, I spent some time with Gary developing a solo, which has been called ‘limited line’, Which sees me traveling up and down the space with the idea of moving like I was doing an adage with small little explosives bursts, whilst maintaining a relationship physically along the line, which I tend to want to move away from and spread out. So it’s been quite the challenge, with myself exploring the use of every articulation of my vocabulary to its limit and each being as focused and precise. The counts are going to be very important so that I fullfill each phrase and will keep my not so good Maths skills to the test. Eager to carry on and take ownership.
Its going to be an exciting, hard working week and I know we are all eager to help and support each other.
Night night,
Mike 🙂