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I’m No Bridget Jones, But… 

10/17/2015

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Memory is the diary that we all carry with us. – Oscar Wilde
 
Did you every keep a diary?   I did, several throughout my life. I still have them all.  There is the one with the puppy cover and the one with Qui-Gon Jinn on the cover.  There is the blue one and the green one and the moleskin.  There’s the one that doesn’t have a cover anymore. So many hours and so much emotion went into those little books. Now all of them are sitting in a drawer.  I don’t read them often. I glace at a few pages every time I move; usually as respite from packing.  In those pages are a lot of sad awkward retellings of the daily events.  Unrequited love is a major theme.  So is vengeance.   Especially ages 9 through 14.  
 
But when the numbers came in and the theme was to be memory, I knew I would probably be dusting them off without a U -Haul in sight. Still pretty rough to read. I use way to many exclamation points. Each entry usually deals with 2 to 3 topics, one always being how lame my step dad is.  Also I apparently was spelling the word friend wrong well into my teens.
 
 I before E.  Get it together!!! Painful stuff.
 
Painful but inspiring, so we began creating a new section dealing with those reckless records of early days.  I had each dancer write a memory out.  The specification being that the memory is banal.  An exercise like this could easily slip into a very special Barbra Walters interview, so I tried to steer it towards neutral territory.  Then we began to intertwine movement and speech in the space to reveal, what I think, is a sweet little piece of dance.
 
Check out a little sneak peak:
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    This is Jesse Schmitz-Boyd's 4th Season as a Company Member with Alternative Motion Project.

    Jesse is choreographing this year's Audience Create-a-Dance which puts together a memory theme with 5 dancers to avant garde music and a green/gray color combination.

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