Dance, Dance, Dance

My mind is full of ideas today. I still want to travel, I still want to perform. One major problem is space. The beauty of a theater is that it offers enough space to dance. The negative is that you have to bring people into a theater somehow, as opposed to bringing the dance to where they are already. Maybe a one-week residency would work: offer a week of classes, develop choreography, have a show at the end. It does not allow for much travel or sight seeing. Got to be a balance in here somewhere.

The duet with Alex and Amanda has a promising start, yet it is a bit heavy. I worry that my mind can't commit to more than one project at a time. I like the marriage duet so far, but am more excited by Icarus. Another issue to consider is that, if I keep Closet Dances in the repertory, we can't perform Closet Dances and this new duet together: they are too similar. I need a new angle, I fear.
 
I had a financial setback. The show in Philly cost more than I anticipated. This conflict of cost versus fun is really fierce in the dance world. It costs far more to put on a show than you get back at the box office. Yet, we need to perform: a dance does not live until it has been seen by at least one or two people outside of the studio. Dance is a performance art, it needs to reach beyond the rehearsal.
 
We perform in the Kennedy Center, at the Millenium Stage, at 6pm on Wednesday March 23, 2011. I am toying with titles. These Four Walls suggests itself to me because we will perform January Night and Closet Dances (interior themes). The third dance is the question mark. What will go there?