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SOME FUTURE PLANS A Few Personal Interests Captioned photos of DE/FDW
Directly from the body of work created over the years on Mt. Monadnock, I
have developed several new ways for my audiences to experience outdoor
site-specific dance. One method has been developed as part of my work as
artist-in-residence at Acadia National
Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. There, I
designed and implemented a daylong performance event requiring that an audience
hike to various pre-selected performance sites with performers, throughout the
day. This event began with a 5:30 A.M. sunrise “ceremony” in dance and Native
American Sign Language at the summit of Cadillac Mountain. Other sites in this
day’s performance itinerary included a densely forested area and a culminating
late afternoon performance at a rocky coastal site, where waves broke just a few
feet away from performers. Inspired by the success of this project, I have gone
on to develop supplemental workshop materials and topics from this project and
am now seeking appropriate venues where I might implement them. I typically
attempt to subsidize my company performances from such related work because
funding for Mt. Monadnock, and for the most part, all other site-specific
productions is sadly scant if not altogether nonexistent.
Future projects
include a continuation in the vein of the “traveling performance”. I plan to
present a similar series of site-specific dance this summer on Monadnock, in
lieu of the traditional summit performance. These dances are to be inspired by
‘vision questing” on the summit and will become part of a daylong event
beginning, perhaps with a sunrise dance at the summit, as well. Throughout the
day, an energetic and willing audience will travel with us, the performers, from
site to site, intimately sharing in a unique and common sense of
adventure,
discovery and magic.
One other project that has been a long time in the works, is that of a dance I will perform up the entire length of the Thoreau Trail (which is approximately three quarters of a mile long). This trail is densely forested and is carpeted throughout with deep green lush mosses—it is one of my favorite places on the mountain. The dance is based on Thoreau’s essay entitled “Walking” and will move upward, in and among trees, boulders and through a brook bed, culminating in an outcropping of rocks known as “Thoreau’s Seat”. I envision audience members posted along the trail, each gaining a different perspective of the dance depending on the viewing vantage point. I also would like to further develop this work as a video piece.
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