Wrapping Up.

This was our last rehearsal with Mary Lane in Lexington, Va. It was certainly bittersweet to be finishing the piece. We still have a lot of work to do in order for the piece to be truly complete. We will concentrate on making the transitions from phrase to phrase more cohesive, on capturing the movement qualities Mary has so brilliantly described and on executing the choreography with the proper technical precision. Unfortunately, we will only have about a month to whip us and the piece into shape. The experience as a whole was challenging, and in turn all the more enjoyable. The Flux Dance Company needed Mary’s vision as a source of innovation. Once you have worked with a dance company for an extended amount of time, you develop preconceived notions about how to work with them. In other words, you know or rather think you know how they are capable of performing. This is the case with Flux; it is such a tight knit community of dancers. We have all been choreographing and performing so much together that we have developed creative rituals. Mary’s vision helped to break the monotony of our own creative habits as a company. She has given us a new movement path to explore. And for that we are most grateful.