today's rehearsal

We worked from some Annunciation paintings., I brought copies of paintings. Classic to contemporary. (WIll post links soon. ) Asked dancers to decide on Gabriel or Mary and then study the paintings for small details, visual details, sweeps of movement, that could be translated into movement phrases. Chip did the same assignment, except translating into musical ideas. THen, my favorite choreographic activity - borrowed and shopped from everyone's phrases and let the three solos and chip's music find a layering. From observing the layering, my outside eye combined with the dancer and musician internal stage eye - we began to compose an ensemble section for the work.