Box Shy - feedback
The choreography for Box Shy is new, so I asked David and Shana for some feedback. This short clip shows you a little bit of that. We also talked about how it can be challenging to jump into performing a work like Box Shy - our run-throughs felt gradually more authentic and refined each time. It will be difficult to find the right mood and energy when performing this at a party where we've been mingling and chatting rather than introspective. David suggested that I take a few minutes to listen to the music before hand, but then we both learned that it is in the performance of it that his music really starts to have that transformative experience, rather than just sitting and listening.
That's an aspect to performance work that excites us, me in particular. Performance asks for a different kind of paying attention (I am intrigued by what that different kind is and why it's useful to our interaction with the greater world around us). For example, other side is only worth watching if the viewer commits to it, meaning that you have to give over to the state of observation that it brings you into.
We'll keep bringing you notes from the field as we investigate how we watch, observe, and see differently.
Labels: the party project, videos
