The Daily Work
Still from: “Undone” Presented at Sarah Lawrence College, 2009.
“What directs me? When something feels compelling and uncomfortable… I want to stay in those moments of expectation, of conundrum, and see what can be made in/of them, and not have to 'solve' them.”
“...when something is right, I feel a sense of recognition. I know it is right in a way that I can't be talked out of. My criterion is this rightness. My process is in search of this rightness.”
“Put your practice where your question is, wrassle with it - which I suppose is one of my ideas of the function of making dances in the first place.”
“...if you work with the reality, get into conversation in your dance; let the affect work on you, get into a dialogue so you are receptive to what it is, what you end up with is something that allows someone to glimpse the way your mind works - a really good purpose for art...”
“...to get on with it one must allow oneself to act...it is out of that action that ideas arise.”
“A dance is more than a collection of greatest hits. Parts get next to each other and act on each other, they combine to communicate something else/more/different from what they do on their own. They and their cumulative sense do something to you...The job is to get the distance required to perceive, to divorce things from whatever initially informed them or made them...”
Susan Rethorst
