September, 2014 – Mark Mann Response #2 to Scars are All the Rage Rehearsal
Choreographer: Marie France Forcier / Interpreters: Molly Johnson, Louis Laberge-Côté (Justine Comfort absent) / Location: hub 14 Toronto
I really enjoyed the rehearsal yesterday, especially the tonal shifts between the first dance you guys were working on and the second and third.
It was really interesting to see the action of serendipity: the way you prepared occurrences that you couldn’t anticipate, but only recognize when they appeared. I liked observing how you ushered in the surprise, and the complicity of the dancers in your searching. Their trust.
So much of the work is solving problems, of course. I don’t know the kinds of thoughts that you have when the phrasing presents a dilemma, but it looks like an action of very careful letting go. Releasing the bodies, seeing what they’ll do.
It reminded me of how solutions always…
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