As soon as I started scripting material for State, I shifted its context by taking it outside. The Djerassi Ranch in Woodside (where I was in residency last May) invites that kind of play, of course, and offers innumerable sites to take advantage of. Here is a short blip from one such adventure: Funsch launch of State: Not Anywhere Near to Now from Christy Funsch on Vimeo.
I just returned to the Bay Area from packed and generously-attentive houses in Portland. Thanks to Martha Ullman West for her coverage in Oregon's Arts Watch: http://www.orartswatch.org/dancing-to-the-how-and-why-of-it/ And thanks of course to my dear friend and colleague Katherine Longstreth. We met in graduate school some 20 years ago and quickly became comrades in DIY dance production via our performing group ESTRUS WORKS with Julia Wyncoll. Although our dance lives have taken us in different directions, we remain committed to the
When I started "Moving Still(s)" one year ago at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, I was very resistant to the idea of producing a concert or even creating a piece from the experience. I worked intentionally to derail my choreographic process in order to arrive at deeper states of being and latent approaches to moving. My research in thwarting myself continued through the fall of 2012. Then I realized the practice of derailment was in deed the structure of the
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