Months ago, my colleague Sara inspired this rumination on the collective similarities and differences of various art forms. As I read her last blog posts, I wondered, what is the distinction between performers across mediums? How do the performances of dancers, actors or musicians differ? I like to imagine that [...]
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Recently it feels like we have taken on three new company members; all of who are heavy, blind, and with little sense of direction. It doesn’t sound like the greatest asset for a dance company known for their athletic movement style in the process of creating a new piece; and yet they are [...]
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Every time we rehearse Bound, I uncover more layers of this girl I am trying to bring to life. It’s like chipping away at a person who I am both creating and discovering, as though she exists both in my mind and separately from my mind, as an eternal figure in this perpetual drama. [...]
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The other side.
I arrived in Palestine late on Tuesday night. After entering and exiting the doors of nine different means of transportation (subway, AirTrain, elevator, plane, taxi, bus, van, mini-bus, taxi), I was glad to walk through the final door to find Samar. We sat [...]
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Since Samar’s departure in December many things have changed: almost all of the dancers now have smart phones, which facilitates us watching videos or reading emailed notes during rehearsal; everyone has downloaded Skype- for both social and professional reasons- where we hang out in a new sort of virtual apartment; Samar has become [...]
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Today we embark upon this year-long experiment to create movement through video conferencing and the web. As Samar sits in Ramallah, the NYC based dancers of YSDT pile into the studio in Queens and gather around the computer to say good morning- although it is already 5pm in the West Bank.
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YSDT begins their creation of Bound.
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The Huffington Post
Read Jennifer Edward's feature about YSDT's newest work, Bound, featuring interviews by Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz.
