Day 8.

prompt: "no one outside a relationship can ever really understand what is happening within a relationship. so, in the end, you just have to trust yourself."

music: alan loveday and neville marriner (unknown title)
thoughts: this bit of movement i choreographed without music, and set it to this later.  also, i went downstairs to do this knowing i wanted to cover my eyes, but i had completely forgotten my prompt... so the prompt led to the motif, and the motif led to the work, and the work led to the music choice.

Day 7.

prompt: "take it or leave it"
(in response to: give me your philosophy on love in two sentences or less"

music: "mandali" by africando feat. medoune diallo
thoughts: some days less boring forms of movement come much more easily. other days i do the same borinngggg things over and over.  this wasn't such a terrible day.

Day 6.

day 6, everyone, brings something new.  the first 5 days were created using prompts from audience slips of paper from the show in chicago.  today i'm using something from the survey i've created for this very purpose! i LOVE reading the responses.  (it's anonymous - if you haven't already, fill it out!)  so here we go.  this was from the "tell me anything you haven't said yet" question at the end of the survey.

prompt:  I kind of think of it like a puzzle on a table. Step away from it and look at the whole and you go "Shit. That's hard." But putting each pair of pieces together is no thing at all. "Of course this one goes here, look at the little stripes..." So basically if you work in your relationship like you're putting the easy pieces together, all of a sudden you step back one day and you made a fucking 2000 piece Thomas Kincaide painting or something without even thinking. The whole puzzle together is amazing and beautiful and a feat, just like love. And the tiny pieces are great too, like a couple's brunch tradition or the six pieces that make the lilac bush by the church. I sincerely hope this makes sense in writing because I believe it so strongly and I think it could make a lot of people feel better about life and love and relationships and all that. Maybe I'll send it to Oprah.

music: "there's so much energy in us" by cloud cult
thoughts: this is a poorly executed exploration of an idea i'm actually interested in.  sweet!

Day 5.

prompt: "love is letting the other person have the last piece of bacon."

music: "the love you save" by jackson 5
thoughts: i mean, how could i NOT make use of this amazing prompt?  also, please don't forget that i'm cool (sometimes.)

Day 4.

prompt: "knuckle down and win big."
(in response to: "what is your philosophy on love?"

music: "stronger than me" by amy winehouse
thoughts: totally not feeling it today.  fortunately there are some incredible prompts to work with.  "knuckle down and win big?!" whoever wrote that, you're my hero.

Day 3.

prompt: "love is finding the person who brings out the best in you and loves about you what you love about yourself - and vice versa."

music: "i was doing all right" by oscar peterson

thoughts: this prompt has a lot more to it than this! this is just some first movement.

Day 2.

prompt: "ask my wife, she has all the answers"
(in response to: "what is your philosophy on love?")

music: "zing! went the strings of my heart" by rufus wainwright

thoughts: short and silly and in a hallway.  i should probably find a studio space somewhere to do these in!  (makes me miss LPAC.)