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A few observers and most of the dancers came to Daniel Burkholder/The Playground’s second Open Rehearsal/Showing on Sunday. We all resisted a day of playing in the snow, and instead danced our water dance- My Ocean is Never Blue. We performed four CHUNKS of the piece.

Chunk G - Chunk Map - Chunk Drinking Line - Chunk Flock

Each chunk is a marriage of different movement scores that are inspired by water. The dancers are in the process of learning what fits together with what, what the group vocabulary is and what/who will trigger a change in the dance.

I especially enjoyed the sound atmosphere created by Jonathan Matis who was testing out some sound along w/the dance for the first time. The mood ranged from tense, to ethereal, to nature sound, to machine like ones.

I am into this open rehearsal idea and think it could be explored more. I would expect the dance community to be in to it. Why aren’t dancers going to these? It is hard to judge by last Sunday, because of the weather, but I am still curious. There aren’t any more planned open rehearsals for “My Ocean is Never Blue” but there is an upcoming performance in another unconventional space: Transformer Gallery - www.transformergallery.org on March 30. Visit http://improvarts.alkem.org/ for upcoming performances!