It's been a while!

So, it's been a long time since our last post! We have been working hard and struggling to get things finished. We have both been frustrated with our inability to get a consistent flow going, and the work we have been producing seems to reflect that.

While this may be a good thing - we are working with ideas of miscommunication and confusion - it's been hard to figure out where to go with things each rehearsal. For this newest section, we have been playing with sensuality and narcissism. How do we get someone to pay attention to us? How do we flirt with others? How do we show off our bodies; tell someone, "Look at me!" These are some ideas we have been playing with.

Ideally, over the course of the evening we are trying to create, we want to come back to this idea of sexual communication. How do men and women talk to each other? What inherent confusion presents itself when a man tries to talk to a woman - do we speak the same language or are women from Venus and men from Mars?

The section we have been working on for the past week seems to be a good start...

Below is a quick video.



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Eileen says...

This evening in the RawMoves tradition we observed our artistic directors skillfully create a phrase both challenging and detailed right before our eyes. Work is created out of thin air...as we the dancers watch and wait until it's our turn to try it on. We never quite look like they do...well not immediately, but that's what rehearsals are for. Let the journey and process of creating a new show begin. Pop, lock, drop!

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If you haven't already, be sure to become a fan of RawMoves of FaceBook. Here is a link to another video from today's rehearsal. This is the whole phrase and our dancers were very patient with us while learning it!

RawMoves Starts a New Project!

'The Story of Eight' is over and we are moving on to our next project! While ideas are still rumbling around in our heads, we have some amazing dancers who are ready and excited to work!

We plan on blogging about the process and work we are doing. While our last attempts at maintaining a blog were not totally successful, we now know what it takes and are going to make a HUGE effort to post things regularly! The tech aspect of blogging is coming together nicely so we shouldn't be able to procrastinate like we did with 'The Story of Eight.' We can post while at rehearsal and keep things updated regularly!



As for the new project, the tentative title is 'Babble.' Referencing the Tower of Bable, we are interested in words, meaning, context, miscommunication, confusion, gibberish, etc. To start off, we played some surrealist word games to generate words and phrases. Without thinking or planning, we each generated a word in a sentence or an answer to a question we didn't know was being asked. We will use some of these phrases to generate movement and see where it takes us. Here are a few things we've come up with:

- A curly lip hastily holds the tomb.
- The panther drinks the window.
- A dreamy dream softly dips into the wardrobe.
- Where are my underpants? They are waiting for you, if you just keep walking without looking too hard.
- What is the difference between you and me? It's a matter of perspective.
- What do red cars do? Take a left, follow the bus, then stop under the jacaranda tree.
- What is falling? It's a different path, longer, rockier, but the destination is the same.