Right before the Bebe Miller Company’s world premiere in San Francisco in the late 1980’s, one of the dancers was seriously injured during rehearsal. On Scott Clark’s recommendation, I ended up working with the company member so that the performance could go on as planned.
That led to Bebe inviting me to work with the company for a week at Jacob’s Pillow. The company was in residence at this historic venue to develop a new collaborative dance piece. I watched them rehearse, participated in the conversations about the conversation and process, taught Awareness Through Movement® lessons that linked to the choreography they were co-creating, and gave each of the dancers individual Feldenkrais® lessons.
“Dance works are made of a complex mix of ideas, physical practice, forgetting, remembering, minor epiphanies, and daily discoveries, joined together piece-by-piece in the evolving circumstance of creative research over time.” Bebe Miller
The Bebe Miller Company is now in its final days of raising $8,800.00 to develop a new dance work called ‘History.’ This composition will examine the last decade of the company’s work in terms of creative conversation and cultural context.
They’re raising the money online via the United States Artists website. If they don’t raise the full amount by next Tuesday, 17 May 2011, then none of the contributions are collected. Learn more here.
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