Over the last two years at the University of Michigan as an MFA candidate, I have had many opportunities to interact with Jessica Fogel in the classroom as well as in my own dance making process as she so generously took on the role of my thesis committee chair. Fogel’s tenacity in seeking out relevant information and talented collaborators in order to make educated decisions about how and what to include in the creative process is just one of the many reasons I am thrilled to have the opportunity to dance for her in the Into the Wind project. The hours of research, study and conversation make a fruitful base from which to grow many different ideas. Currently, in the rehearsal process, we have been working with three main topics. First, using our bodies to think through the ways wind moves across the earth and its force on objects in space. Second, we are thinking and dancing out ideas surrounding multiple perspectives about the positive and negative effects (on people and place) of erecting the gigantic wind turbine structures. Finally, we are imagining and re-imagining what the landscape of the performance site has been and what it could be. These are really big ideas to embody. Finding ways to transition between them and create a cohesive dance work is an engaging and challenging experience.
Amy Guilmette
Amy Guilmette
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