Returning to Sable Island this year
to prepare for CDF I have been reminded over and over again how this is the
hardest piece I have ever done. So physical, and always demanding more- more
weight, more risk, more lunge, more cells involved in the action, more power,
more sensitivity, more pushing, more letting go. You have to dig into it. Peel
away the layers of yourself, and face it, as Serge says. We have been
rehearsing for about 3 hours a day, but it takes me another 7 to warm-up and
cool down (a constant process), and I'm still sore everyday. The muscles are
working, pushing, digging. I am thankful for being involved in this piece
that is so immersive and demanding of my every attention.
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| Photo Credits: Michelle Doucette |
What a beautiful
thing to be completely wrapped up in, together with an ensemble of wonderful,
complex, dedicated dancers, and Serge. But it also frustrates me, because being
in this piece is so demanding of me that I have little capability for attention
to anything else while we are working on it.
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| Photo Credit: Michelle Doucette |
My favourite part of dancing the
piece is actually the internal landscape of imagery that gets created by doing
it. I like when my body is dancing, and my mind, like a bird flying over a
canyon, is free to see and feel around me. I love when the imagination of where
I am, where we are, what elements are driving us, just appears through
the words, sounds, movements of the piece. I have an elaborate and colourful
inner narrative that is my own. But we're also a herd, a pack, an ensemble.
Every flinch, shift, flicker felt by all.
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| Photo Credit Holly Crooks |
Right now it's the morning. I'm
about to have a coffee and begin the warm-up process for today. I've already
started filtering through- how are my shoulders, back, hips? Where is my weight
today? How are the feet? the mind? I will wake-up the core, attend to my
neck, put on some rain gear and walk to the studio. Happy Monday.
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| Photo Credit Holly Crooks |
~Jacinte
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