PERFORMANCE TIME CHANGE!!!!!!!!!

Our June 15th performance of Lie, Lay, Laid will be held at 2:00 pm, not the previously advertised 8 pm.  This can be explained in part by the number of bar specials available on Sunday Evenings,  This gets us out sooner.

Hope to see ya’ there.

FLYER

Click to enlarge…hope we see ya’

Floorwork

Noticed a lack of dancing on the blog so far. So here is some floorwork from rehearsal awhile back. We’ve been trying to choreograph with an elevated audience in mind, so to shoot the video, I’m sitting on the top of a ladder to mimic the point of view. Feel free to comment. Thanks.

Chicago Report

A very full trip to Chicago, where we performed at the Chicago Moving Company space, a beautiful performing space in the Hamlin Park Community Building.

We included a number of sequences from material we have developed from our upcoming show, and used four cuts from Ljova’s marvelous compositions for the show. Reception was quite wonderful, folks laughed more than we expected, and the big ideas we had been hoping to get across were received loud and clear.

In the process of reworking a sequence where the four of us are turning in a line, we discovered some physical connections to our individual spaces as we turn that we will certainly use to revise the quartet version of the phrase. And we discovered some possibilities for an opening sequence for the four of us and some apples. We learned a great deal of useful information, and gained some confidence about the piece and its ability to speak to an audience.

Oh, and we went to Wrigley.  Cubs won 7-4.  Go Cubs.

Lynn’s Pics

So friends from the Field dropped by on Wednesday, same day as the Creepy video. Aeric had left for another shoot, so I shot with my digital point and shoot. Aeric need not worry, but I do like the shots. Hope you enjoy them.

Chicago Trip

Uta is in California performing with Mark Morris, Carlton is performing in Detroit, so Lynn Marie and I are off to Chicago. We are performing in a Field Trips showcase on Friday night, trying out some of our lie, lay,laid material in a duet remix. It should be fun, we should learn something about the work, and we get to visit one of favorite places. Special thanks must go out to Dave, Jennifer, Donald, Harold, Lynn, Jeff,Daedalus, Liz, Judith, and Chicago Moving Company.

We’ll be able to report back about the work’s reception, and what we learned, when we get back.

Creepy…

Lynn Marie was teaching in New Jersey, so Aeric and I tried running the photo booth by ourselves yesterday, and made a discovery. Two guys asking people to pose on a mattress on a New York City sidewalk are a little creepy. After 20 minutes of failure, Aeric caught the situation on film. Here it is.

Photo booth opens

We began taking photographs today outside our studio in Lower Manhattan. Nine brave folks (all complete strangers) took the plunge in just about 45 minutes. We’ll have some of Aeric’s photos up soon on a separate page for you to check out. Come join us!!! It is as fun as it looks.  We’re there  Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday

12:30-1:30 @ 65 West Broadway!!

MATTRESSES!

We worked with almost our full cast of mattresses on Sunday. Played with the physics of unstable surfaces supporting weight, and learned alot. No cracked skulls, but a few bruised feet. The attached photo documents one way the mattresses crumbled, and I really liked their distribution.  So I snapped. Enjoy.