Something I've been struggling with in re-working my "____ism" piece is deciding what exactly I am trying to say. I told the dancers last week that I'm not particularly trying to voice a political stance saying "capitalism is good, communism is bad" or anything like that, but I'm genuinely interested in studying how groups of people organize themselves and how they function. This is proving to be a large and broad task for one 8-15 minute piece!
Something I've realized is that it is OK to let my personal feelings, experiences, and views in. After all, it IS my concert. The dancers have authority to tell me if they disagree with something I ask of them or if we don't share the same views or values. I'm going to try and reshape the reworked "____ism" piece (which may be renamed eventually) to allow my personal experiences and feelings to be reflected, instead of trying to cover all the angles of possibility. Tomorrow, in rehearsal, we will be diving into one feeling/experience I have repeatedly had, rather than trying to come up with all possible ways of organizing ourselves.
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