Last week Jessica Fogel took the cast of Into the Wind to see the site for our August performances in Muskegon. This was a really engaging and productive visit for all of us--essential for our creative process and eventual performance. Between the Michigan Alternative & Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) and an old, soon-to-be-closed coal power plant is where our dance will happen. To see the site helped me to more fully understand the land and community, and it also helped me to begin the process of piecing together the ideas we have been exploring in rehearsal. This land has a history. There have been many changes--some wanted and some unexpected. If this land evolves and transitions from one industry (coal) to another (wind/renewable energy), the community of Muskegon will experience another change. Hopefully for the better.
Through the rehearsal process, I have learned so much about the richness and importance of this one strip of land, and I am curious to find out what the audience members will take away from the dance. What will they learn? What will they discover? And what will we (the dancers/artists/collaborators) learn from them?
Patty Solorzano
Through the rehearsal process, I have learned so much about the richness and importance of this one strip of land, and I am curious to find out what the audience members will take away from the dance. What will they learn? What will they discover? And what will we (the dancers/artists/collaborators) learn from them?
Patty Solorzano
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