EDITORIAL NOTE: And how bad will I feel if I confess that this may be RIGHT UP THERE with perhaps becoming a godaunt? ;o) 

(i just wanted to emphasize that)

And Oh Z! Many Congratulations! (’Here we go Darlings! Here we go!’)

EDITORIAL NOTE: !!!!!!?!?!?!?!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :oD :oD :oD

This is really fascinating, and in some ways reminiscent of my Laban training where we were regularly told “You learn technique in order to forget it”. In my own little way, I think I came to a small choreographic epiphany when I stopped trying to make dances that looked like dances, and instead find movement that is more authentic, more directly communicates experience.

Now, there are still a lot of people out there that do this a lot better; and what I’ve ended up with is a form that other dancers say they like a lot but my boyfriend hates and my students regularly reject (bless ‘em). But I still think I’ve come further in my own way than a number of well-known choreographers who tour the UK regularly with their Arts Council funding, and make dances that are very pretty and whatever but look to me like fundamentally dull, superficial pieces of dance. And I don’t wanna be doin’ with that anymore.

That’s why we go to Laban. To un-dance.