It is a feeling that dancers speak of when describing the sensation of the body and mind in performance — a kind of flow.
“It’s how I feel with dance and with making choreography,” Melnick said.
The seed was a series of movement phrases created by Lee-Parritz, which she recorded and then played back for Melnick in extreme slow motion.
“I decided to learn it as if it were happening to me that way, in slow motion,” Melnick said.
“This work has a relationship to beauty and form and simplicity,” Lee-Parritz said, “but with an awareness of decay and ugliness.”
Persons:
” Melnick, “, Lee, I’m, ”, Parritz, ” Lee