Uh, before I talk to you, I just wanted to take up to remind you, do you
wanna turn off your cell phone?
Remind you that at number point to do phone,
no recording of any kind is prohibited. I think video, cameras,
r flash photography and you regular camera flip, cameras, whatever you got.
Um, no recording at any time
to give you a second. Yeah. Oh yeah.
And um, I'm gonna go ahead and hand over the chest chair. Well, if you can
notice right now, we're not in a traditional theater setting, right? And
this is where we begin the dance concert in a nontraditional kind of
setting right here in this lobby is where the first piece will take place.
Um, and then we will guide you past the staircase into the hallway and
you will see the second piece you are here. And then after that, you will
be guided into the theater where for exactly five minutes to get to your
seats before the piece in the theater starts just to give you an idea of
the flow of the evening so that you don't feel frantic about not being in
the right place. Or be about being in your right seat, we'll direct you
and you'll be fine. Just, just be patient with a new perhaps give you.
OK. Um As Holly and I started researcher or um police pursue the research
that we, this M fa project, we noticed that we share a lot of common
ground, although maybe we have different ways of achieving um our end goal
or um different ways of um choreographing pieces and different ways of
working through a process. We recognized that we had some fundamental
questions that we were looking at questions including who gets to dance?
How do we frame dance and how do we experience them both as dancers and as
people viewing dance? Right? And um so as you were going through this
process, we started to,
we question those a lot. Also, Holly and I share a lot of common ground in
that it's important to us that everyone experience that I would say
aesthetically, right? On a, on a body level, not just um a a viewing level
, right? And not just seeing it, but being active participants in actually
feeling what it's like to move. Um Because not everybody gets that
opportunity. So we've done a lot of work both with dancers crave dancers
who danced their entire life and spent a lot of time in dance studios.
We've done a lot of work with people who have never taken the dance
classes ever in their life. And everybody is dancing by the, by the end of
whatever our process is. Um So hopefully we d into right, the first piece
that we have are right here.
Um Kendall and Milton is my dear friend and a beautiful dancer and a
beautiful artist also herself. So I'm turning the time over to Kendall to
guide you through the rules of the game. Common ground. OK. So this
experience that we're gonna have is called common ground like you hucked
up. Um Let me just read you a little something about it. Give you a feel
of, you know what you should be looking for. Um Common ground movement
experience designed to provide an equal opportunity for audience members
and performers to participate by observing and or moving as a collective
group. The goal of this piece is to facilitate these questions. How do you
frame dance? How do you kin aesthetically experience him to talk about
that a little bit? So here's the rules. I'm gonna show you the gestures
first. This is number one, pretty simple and make sure that if you get
lost or if you forget we're gonna do them a few times. These dance matter
shirt people in red, you can always follow them. You can't see me if
you're way back or something, they're all over. So this is number one,
number two, is this
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or can I
OK, here's some more rules. We'll do the gestures again. So you don't
forget. Um, you can enter or exit the space, whatever you want to totally
up to you. Um, you can participate by either observing or physically
coming into the space. Either way you're still participating. Even if
you're just watching, it's everyone together. Um, the music signals the
beginning and the end. So you'll hear the music start when it comes to an
end, I'll bring you all too close. Um, let's do the three gestures again.
Number one,
thank you,
breath when we breathe, use these three gestures when you willing. Um And
now we'll begin and I'll just point out if, if you're a person who
sometimes needs to read instructions, sometimes I feel that way there's
also an insert in your program that says, you know. Yeah,
inspired.
Ok.
That was beautiful. Thank you.
We're gonna have a fun this way. There's a ok.
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You want to mention, please. Indian Airlines announced the departure of
their flight IC 408 to China. I think you are requested to proceed today.
Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of internet and captain
on what applied I see
want to take off currently closing your seat belts, keep your seat
separate and free from smoking by smoking.
I hope you enjoy your flight. Thank you.
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um because there was some difficulty seeing it for some people. Um We have
decided that we are gonna do the piece again at intermission. So if you
feel like you had a difficult time seeing it and you'd like to get a
better view of it, we will repeat it at intermission so you can come out.
Yeah.
And
side of
that, it
just a reminder for those of you who checked your messages or otherwise
made a call once again, please turn your cell phones off during the
performance. Thank you.
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