SHAKESPEARE
How do we combine forms without sacrificing the depth of skill on either end of the material? Meaning: can we use actors and dancers in such a way that there is a seamless interface of movement and text for the audience, but we are able to engage performers of extreme virtuosity in each craft? A lot of hybrid dance/theatre work seems to be peopled with artists who can do both, but with modest rigor in either form. Alternately, much work where actors ACT and dancers DANCE has such a separation that the work becomes disembodied. I am interested in melding the movement and text, meaning and relationship to such a degree that the audience becomes spellbound by the fluidity of the forms. This melding is on the part of the CREATOR, rather than the performers, so finding the fusion through composition, layering, folding and negotiating language of body and voice to make a unique form of moving theatre.
Collaborators: Courtney Laine Self