The Floating City Begins

I would like to introduce my latest creative endeavor, a new dance work entitled The Floating City. This will be my first full documentation of one of my projects since graduate school. Of course I do have photographs and videos of most of my work and notebooks full of thoughts, poems, music, feedback, notes, articles, and reviews in boxes somewhere but this time I am interested in a new way of recording and possibly even in developing the work.

As I have been dreaming and discovering this piece all sorts of interesting side connections keep happening. One thing leading to another and I want to keep track of all of the layers that are pushing me to create this work in the way that I am. One can only hope that this path of discovery and inspiration will create a layered nuanced performance piece.

I usually only share my creative process and ideas with my core collaborators and a couple of friends and peers who I seek input and dialogue. For the typical audience / dance relationship; Dance is a one-time connection, you see it one night it happens and you leave. You feel it, you sense it, you might be moved, and love the movement or you might hate the music, can’t connect, not your cup of tea. But you experience a visceral art form that for the most art not that many people will see.

This blog is for those interested in the creative process and exploring the idea of developing a deeper connection to a particular dance by following the adventures of The Floating City. If one invests in the creation– how will it change what you see or how you see it? Or maybe even how I create it.

This blog is for me to understand the process of this particular piece, to watch it unfold and develop from beginning to end. Each piece has a different process and experience. A lot is determined by who is in the room with me, from the collaborators to the dancers, to the time allowed in the studio. Different vocabularies and different contexts create different environments in the studio, which in turn affects the outcome of the work

The Floating City blog will be like dancing for a small group of people – it may be intimate and telling. I am open to the possibilities of what will be revealed. I am going to dance in words and document the creative adventure ahead of me.