Six Meters at Hillside School
On Friday, February 27, we performed at Hillside, an elementary and middle school for children with ADD and related learning disabilities. The audience of about 100 was attentive and engaged, and our performance of a little over an hour flew by. I danced using a bundle of long sticks as sound, tapping them on the ground, letting them fall, swishing them through the air, scraping them against each other. These sounds inspired a fellow dancer’s movements in a duet. We then used
Six Meters Performance: "DRESS WARM"
For our first on-campus performance of the year, Six Meters amassed a gigantic pile of clothes in the Brown Dance Studio. Pulling clothes from the pile, wearing them in unconventional ways, burying ourselves, using it as an obstacle, imagining it as a hill under the stars, we explored the possibilities of movement and costuming. I also improvised on the piano to accompany my fellow dancers during a sequence. Dancing in "DRESS WARM" on Valentine's Day turned a difficult holida
Six Meters at Phoebe Retirement Home
On Wednesday, I performed with Six Meters at Allentown's Phoebe Retirement Home. We began by demonstrating some improvisational dance techniques: 8s, opening spaces, all stopping and starting at the same time, before doing an exercise called "filling in spaces." With a partner, you fill in the spaces of their body, which can be under their arms, between their fingers, between their head and back, anywhere. Then one partner moves away, leaving the other in a dynamic shape. We
