In just ONE WEEK, our fantastic show opens! Sometimes people wonder how choreographers make dances. There are many different ways - this is one of them. FACT/SF, like a hearty breakfast, is both nutritious and delicious.
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You might know by now that FACT/SF is interested in many things...systems and people and movements and implications and meta-theatrical concerns and deep emotive expressions. As we do our best to innovate and push push push forward - both relative to our own work and also the larger field of dance working/making, we always find it helpful to reflect on the greats that innovated long ago, and who continue to inspire us today. Here's one of Beethoven's masterpieces. It's incredible,
In an effort to share everything I possibly can about what we're doing, I made a short explanatory video - it's rad and you should check it out! ~Charles Slender Artistic Director, FACT/SF http://youtu.be/pH63NTPSgk4
On a rainy Tuesday morning, FACT/SF's Artistic Director Charles Slender tries to figure out what, really, this project is. We're getting closer.
Often artists, including myself, find themselves pitching a project before they've really gotten dirty with it, before they really know what the project really IS. Nearly a month into rehearsals now, we're learning so many new things. The Work in Progress Showing last week featured some healthy discourse that elicited new ideas and fantastic feedback. Here's a small clip from our showing and what I think about what we're doing. As we continue to work, we'll no doubt unearth even more
I think with Satie's work, especially with this piece, a simple and methodical space is opened that allows the listener to submerge themselves in thought, reflection, and image-building. The work has an emotional quality...but I think it's generated by the listener, and doesn't necessary lie within the score itself. There's something about this that reminds me of one of FACT/SF's goals with Pretonically Oriented...to try to methodically create, organize, and re-configure so that the viewer can watch what unfolds, while
Here are the first four free-writes, on the shared formative theme of 'first bedroom', from FACT/SF's performers. They each chose eight words or phrases that were resonant to them for whatever reason. These texts, and others like them, form the basic source material for the entire POv Project! swirling upwards, strange, swaying, winds, round, antique, telephone, windowsill brass hook, misty ghost, mom, crazy, next first room, stupid shelves, lego kingdoms, zebra childhood, stepping stone, lava, 80s porn, Laura, doctor, invitation flat cities, at ease, at the top of a hill in a hilly town, first bedroom, all around, my house, in part, even when I am sleeping
Hello! I could not be more thrilled to begin developing Pretonically Oriented v.3 at CounterPULSE via the Artist Residency Commissioning Program. The last few rounds of ARC have produced some truly remarkable works – Kegan Marling and Dandelion Dancetheater most recently, and Jesse Hewit and Laura Arrington last August. So great. Challenging, beautiful, nuance-filled works have become de rigueur for ARC, and I’m psyched to be included in this program and this effort alongside the wonderful Lenora Lee. So. Rad.
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