No one enters the studio empty. We bring our state of mind, our current interests, our aches and pains – and our expectations. Over the last month our our graduate seminar class we’ve had a crash course in Adobe Photoshop and this collage is the manifestation of that technical exploration. But it’s also a representation of the embodied traces of Artistic Director-ship that keep showing up in … Continue reading Embodied Expectations
For the purposes of this blog post I have taken a series of photos of a block sculpture to play with loosely describing a few steps in my creative process. Let’s start at the beginning: Well, that’s not really the beginning is it? The beginning would just be an empty desk – or in my case a cluttered desk that had to be cleared off … Continue reading Making a dance (in blocks)
About a year ago, just as I was beginning to apply for graduate school, a wonderful young choreographer named Antonia Z Brown decided to interview me for a series she was curating on an arts blog. Here’s a quote from that interview (I was responding to a question on how I define success for myself as an artist): As for internal success, I’ll talk about … Continue reading The forest and the trees
It may sound obvious but when you arrive at graduate school you don’t know anyone all that well. I mean, I connected with a few folks at the audition but not with a lot of depth. And yet a major part of my experience here is hopefully centered around making dances which for me in the past has always been about relationships – casting was … Continue reading Solo-ing
Why I walked away from an established dance company, a relatively lucrative profession and a wonderful community of friends to attend graduate school in central Ohio… Continue reading From the stage to the classroom (and the studio)
The choreography of transporting oneself, one’s partner – not to mention one’s worldly possessions from the East Coast to the Midwest is not to be underestimated. It takes time, it takes energy (mostly cleaning and organizing) and it takes MONEY! And then it ends, and you live in Ohio. Well, to be clear, I live in Ohio… Continue reading Begin…again
Gina Hoch-Stall 