nouveauclassical: Last night, we had a ‘Potential Energies’…

nouveauclassical:

Last night, we had a ‘Potential Energies’ work in progress presentation at BAM Fisher. It was a wonderful experience, and we are excited about working on the rest of it! We were so honored to have such a formidable group of mentors, friends, and collaborators as our audience, including Philip Glass, Kevin Puts, Birgitta Trommler, and so many more. As dancers, TrioDance workshops and presents informal showings on a regular basis, but this was a new experience for us as a group. It’s the first work of this scale that we have undertaken in the history of NCP. Because of the nature of this particular collaboration, we have had the unique opportunity to experience a free flow of ideas between musicians and dancers, which has resulted in some pretty wonderful things. It was exciting to see how the work we had created together translated in performance.

We presented about half of the work, which is a little over 25 minutes: the entire Act I and two-thirds of Act II. The final piece will be comprised of three acts, each containing three movements. At the start of the feedback session, our Artistic Director Sugar Vendil asked the audience to “be brutal.” We received positive reinforcement that validated what we are pursuing with PE (breaking barriers between music and movement) as well as candid, valuable constructive criticism. The major points that we gleaned from our feedback session are that 1) clarity is of utmost importance and 2) the most compelling parts of PE are the moments when there is a strong interaction between the dancers and musicians. Philip Glass also posed an interesting question for us that we are all mulling over: “What does a dancer sound like, and how does a musician move?” He noted that this project is above all else an exchange of languages, and we couldn’t agree more.

Our PE presentation was an invaluable experience for us, and we are grateful to our mentors and colleagues for offering their insight. We can’t wait to perform it for everyone on May 29 at BAM Fisher! In the meantime, we invite you to watch our trailer, and please consider making a pledge to our Kickstarter campaign!

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-by Marina Kifferstein & Sugar Vendil
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~ by Jordan Randall Smith on March 16, 2014.