The piece is created around this idea of abandonment. It is through the lens of a) the abandoner and b) the response to abandoning.
I started off with the aim of creating using comedy inside tragedy as a tool to create and generate movement. The two are so closely related and I find that often something that is so tragic can be explored through the idea of comedy. We laugh at something because that is how we choose to survive, we make it funny. I enjoyed taking this approach, I enjoyed laughing through the pain of abandonment and making fun of it in a way. But I realized that I wanted to make it more abstract. It doesn’t need to be visually funny for it to contain comedy, the comedy could live inside my process. In creating the gestures, the music, the stories I write and read. That’s where the comedy could come into play.
And so I did, I started to create my Embodied Craft final solo: “The Next Clause”. It was based loosely on the idea of a runaway bride, fully equipped with a wedding dress, sneakers, and a sweatband. The final solo wasn’t a final solo. There was something missing, it was as if it was an excerpt from a larger piece. I let it sit, recognizing that it isn’t gone yet but that now was not the time to expand it. Instead, I played off of it. Creating, “The Fourth Clause.” The current solo I am working on.
As a human, we are often faced with defeat. We are presented choices in life that may or may not fulfill us, and inside the defeat we find emptiness, we find abandonment and absence. This solo is created to explore that concept. Based off of gestural movement that expands and contracts, this is the exploration of facing, overcoming, and going through that absence and abandonment.
I started off with the aim of creating using comedy inside tragedy as a tool to create and generate movement. The two are so closely related and I find that often something that is so tragic can be explored through the idea of comedy. We laugh at something because that is how we choose to survive, we make it funny. I enjoyed taking this approach, I enjoyed laughing through the pain of abandonment and making fun of it in a way. But I realized that I wanted to make it more abstract. It doesn’t need to be visually funny for it to contain comedy, the comedy could live inside my process. In creating the gestures, the music, the stories I write and read. That’s where the comedy could come into play.
And so I did, I started to create my Embodied Craft final solo: “The Next Clause”. It was based loosely on the idea of a runaway bride, fully equipped with a wedding dress, sneakers, and a sweatband. The final solo wasn’t a final solo. There was something missing, it was as if it was an excerpt from a larger piece. I let it sit, recognizing that it isn’t gone yet but that now was not the time to expand it. Instead, I played off of it. Creating, “The Fourth Clause.” The current solo I am working on.
As a human, we are often faced with defeat. We are presented choices in life that may or may not fulfill us, and inside the defeat we find emptiness, we find abandonment and absence. This solo is created to explore that concept. Based off of gestural movement that expands and contracts, this is the exploration of facing, overcoming, and going through that absence and abandonment.