Visiting IU, where I did my undergrad in Ballet. Beautiful house, I forgot. Listening to the students behind me talk about how trippy it is, and I remember thinking that too, but now I love love love it. Feels like I’m in Barcelona. AND I just saw a program of work by Twyla Tharp, Peter Martins & Martha Graham… Wonderful collaborations with the opera & orchestral departments. And i keep thinking of this Gesamkunstwerk concept, work in total, with all the moving pieces in place… inspiring…
The Traverse City Dance Project is plotting our return to TC next summer! I’m so proud of the incredible group of dancers who made the project a success!
From today’s Coastline Pilot, an article about next week’s Laguna Dance Festival showing at the Laguna Art Museum. Photos are from a rehearsal of my work, “Personal Mythology: An American Odyssey”. We’re doing a 5-min excerpt…
Where it stops nobody knows… (Taken with Instagram)
Gabe on the beach… (Taken with Instagram)
Peterson Park! (Taken with Instagram)
Andie & Irene on Scotty-Naylor’s beach! (Taken with Instagram)
City Opera House - TCDP dances here 3 weeks from today! (Taken with Instagram)
The Traverse City Dance Project is 75% funded. (!) This project is how I will be developing my thesis this summer, building a new work based on modern concepts of American identity, using Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring as a reference point. See a clip of Spring here. This was Graham’s America… what is mine? Yours?
Brent Whitney was my first friend in NYC. He says I was his too. I met him at Steps on Broadway in the summer of 2007, and we have been through so much together… but nothing like the Traverse City Dance Project!
This July, five years after our first meeting, Brent and I are teaming up to bring a group of 10 amazing dancers to create, investigate… and sweat! The result will be a performance of 4 exciting works, including 2 world premieres. Choreographers include myself, Brent, Australian-born and Hong Kong-based choreographer John Utans, and Mauro de Candia, recent winner of GENESIS, Milwaukee Ballet’s International Choreographic Competition.
WE ARE EXCITED. Check out these links to join in the adventure with us!
Jennifer Lott is a dancer and choreographer, currently freelancing in New York City and Irvine, CA! What I am doing and musing over now. Please enjoy, share, discuss, dissent...
