It just feels like a long blog post title kind of day, okay?
Managing Douglas Dunn & Dancers and getting to produce “Cassations” are among the most rewarding things I’ve done professionally. A lot of satisfaction in creative work has to come from within, so it kind of blew me away when The New York Times expressed such glowing gratitude for a work that Douglas, the dancers, and I poured so much time and love into. Still, the end of a show is always bittersweet. No matter how many different productions I've been involved in, or how big my role is, when it's all over I can't help but have a mini crisis. Where does all that love and energy and creativity go now? Of course there's always the next project, and I really am excited to already be working on new piece of my own, but once I lose myself in the world of a dance, or any work of art, I feel like I could delve into it endlessly and enjoy it again and again and again from different visual, emotional, and critical perspectives... it's hard just to pick up and move on to the next thing. Maybe if the dance world were even a little bit less fleeting, I would be able to feel more "done" with a work. Or maybe, really, I just have trouble letting go :/
2 comments:
I think perhaps the most alluring and bewildering thing about dance is its essential unarchivability. That, along with its sensory totality, is what that makes it such a saturating experience. It's uncontainable.
Such an astute observation, as always, D.
XO
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