We performed it with the mucsians three times and discussed ideas in between.
We talked about making the text portion more outlandish.
We talked about changing the beginning to having Brian howling alone and me coming up to join him.
We talked about adding a physical choreographed section to ease my tiredness.
The musicians's work was fabulous. They were sensitive to our needs and hopefully we were to their sound.
I struggled with staying deep in my improv state, partially because of nerves, because this was the first time anyone saw the piece, because now we have the music and we also have a loose score which we are trying to follow.
I'm always afraid I'm going to slow to keep the audiences attention. I need to slow down and trust myself. I didn't have this problem when dancing by myself, but somehow doing this I'm nervous aboout it. I think I need a tighter score some places and then let it be wide open in others. I think this will ground me more. I also think I always practice dancing with Brian wiht my eyes closed, but maybe this isn't so great performing. So staying inward with my eyes open is challenging for me.
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