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Dance27 min

The Body Remembers First

She builds work from the floor up, and she does not write anything down until the dancers have already found it.

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Sample Interviewee — Choreographer

Choreographer and company director

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The studio is bare except for a stack of folding chairs and a speaker on the floor. She works in socks. "Notation comes last," she says. "If I write it first, I only get what I already imagined."

How does a piece begin?

With a problem, usually physical. How do four people cross a room without ever facing the same direction. It sounds like a puzzle, and it is, but by week three it has become about something else entirely.

"Notation comes last. If I write it down first, I only ever get what I already imagined."

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