Gravity & Levity

Aerial, dance, harness, kit, landings, take off, what are we doing?! Planks of wood and ramps and poles and moving things and will they work? And putting it all back together...

Well, it's been a very interesting process so far and two completely different ways of approaching the set and performers with Stomp and now Charlotte Vincent.
Both have been challenging on many levels - mentally, physically, working with others that you've hardly met before.

Great to watch the development process of everyone within the past three weeks with Charlotte. It took a morning of 'oh dear' (ok, that's the dumbed down version) to re-evaluate what Charlotte was doing, what she was trying to create with us, for the direction to change. An afternoon improvising brought a bit of humour and ludicrousness into the studio, well needed relief after the morning and felt like we were getting to know each other a bit more. Charlotte's very sharp on picking up people's strengths and weaknesses and using this within the work and how she can use over-the-top bad comedy (think dolphins, flying dragons and superman) as a starting point for more subtle and delicate choreography.

Most of the time I have been working on a trio: dancing with Guy whilst being based by Vanessa - challenging in finding my dancing feet after mainly being in the air recently, and how to use this with the harness, a floor-based partner and the base. It has taken a long time to develop, choreograph and negotiate the kit - one of the realisations has been to go with what the harness is trying to tell you and not fight against it otherwise that clumsy ass kind of thing comes in.

Myself, Vanessa and Guy have a week off from the past five weeks (where have the past five weeks gone?!) while lLndsey, Mish and Jonothan work on the set and transitions between each piece. Time to let it all sink in. Ha Ha - I'll be frantically clapping the Stomp piece this week - who would have thought counting to 6 over and over again could be so hard?