Tracey Norman : actuality of doing

Tracey Norman (choreographer)

Jesse Dell, Sky Fairchild-Waller (interpreters)

Beginning:

Began with a whole dance inspired by an intellectual concept: “mapping” and “cartography”

and a relational concept “how we find our way and how we get lost”

The first sections had implied meaning

Text in the middle made the relationship between the people concrete.

Challenges:

• To decide, beyond the concepts, what the dance is actually about, see the whole country and find out what the narrative really is

• To see what the action tells/convey

• To determine what information has to be added

• Recognizing Duration

• To decide how long something really needs to be?

Development/skills:

• Embodying an intellectual concept

• Understanding the whole world and knowing what information to make visible when

• Say what you’re doing, do it, don’t repeat it (relates to duration).

• Knowing when enough research has been done to start crafting.

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