GENESIS OF THE WORK PART 2

7/10/2016

Jonathan tests out his original vision for the piece with his students at Pace University. He eventually re-works some of this material for his solo with Maggie. The seeds of Jonathan's choreographic ideas as expressed in the first rehearsal with Maggie are evident in this video of the Pace students.

2 Comments

Will Guterman

7/11/2016 10:51:19 pm

Hands dance.
Are we/I accustomed to thinking of dance as the body in motion originating with the feet?
Hands can dance.

The dancers with Still Minds foster Focused Minds...
We hear often hear about here and now: mindful-ness...

See it hear? See it here?
And the sound of art to art;
heart to heart... music to quiet rhythm.
Bodies in moving prayer?
Bodies in meditative motion?

Does a soaring violin move the heart to soar?

Feet follow now expanding the movement...
Eyes follow the extending fingers ... seemingly to forever.
Forever is in the eyes...

Jonathan Riedel link

8/9/2016 04:46:23 pm

Thank you, Will. You see my heart. What a beautiful interpretation and reaction to my work.

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Sherri Muroff Kalt, founder of Process Portraits, LLC and author of Portrait of an Artistic Journey: The Creative Process in Real Life Context, is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Duke University with a B.A. in psychology. She began her career in marketing and sales in New York City with L’Oréal, Monet Jewelers, and Givenchy. READ MORE

Jonathan Riedel, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Riedel Dance Theater, began choreographing professionally in 1999. In 2002, he staged his breakaway hit,The Unsightful Nanny, on the Limón Dance Company, and in 2003 he founded Riedel Dance Theater, presenting its inaugural season in NYC and Italy. His work quickly became known for its taut, intelligent humor and poignant dramatic power. DanceView Times proclaimed it “brilliant," "profoundly moving," and having "an ingenuity and timing that would make Petipa jealous." READ MORE

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