Gregory Holt, one of idiosynCrazy’s mentors in our Swarthmore Project, shares with us some of his realizations, frustrations, and hopes for the project as it continues to unfold.  Coming soon, we will see some video on our One Year Vlog Project that highlights some of the work our 4 idiosynCratz and 9 Swarthmore students have been doing since October.

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i think there is a lot of exciting stuff just below the surface, but i also feel that it will only just begin to emerge by the time we’re nearing the end (as usual?). i think i expect a higher level of ‘buy in’ from the students- it seems that many of them are pretty ambivalent about what they want from dance or what they are willing to risk for it. we have begun to establish relationships with some of the students where we can use our own vision and their trust in us to ask for that risk, but with the other students its hard to know what to base that request on, especially in an ostensibly collaborative situation. i feel the lack of exploratory time and relationship building time. i mean, its clearly happening over the course of the work, but again, its going to feel like it all emerges at the end. its also hard to set my own ego aside sometimes. what i want from my art is not necessarily what i will be helping create in this project, so i need to open myself more to buy into other priorities as well. how can we make all this VISIBLE? i mean, all this dialogue and reflection is super interesting- can we frame it in our bodies to allow the audience to make it real with their witnessing? i’ve enjoyed going to the shorter rehearsals a lot- with danielle and gabi. its much more close and intimate. i’m excited to see images develop- there’s already some very strong stuff, so just letting things take their time and also varying the density of material will do a lot for the final product.

those are my thoughts right now!
best,
greg
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stay tuned in weeks to come for more from inside this process…