While walking on a bridge somewhere in countryside, England, I had a thought. Why aren’t dancers ever interviewed about their lives? I would watch the behind the scenes of company shows and the dancers would be asked about how long they’ve been doing it and how hard rehearsals were. Great and all, but what a good way to withhold what actually made them the dancer they were. There must be a way to mix interviews with dance, was the next thought. I can still remember looking to my right and seeing the shiny river slowly flowing. That would be that, when I got back to the states, I’d use my dance connections all over the country and have two dancers pair up. Each would tell a short story from their life and the other would improv dance to it. The prompt was simply, “it can be anything at all – sad, happy, doesn’t matter. As long as it is something you still carry with you to this day.”

As always, life happened, and over the years I tried my best to grab dancers as I worked and traveled around the states. The four dancers below were the ones that came together in full. Although, Justin and Sylvia were on the same day, Shion and Kim were a year apart! Just the way these things go. I’m happy to have completed a few and brought the concept to life.

The initial intention was to show it live at a local screening room in Tucson, AZ, but the very weekend it was scheduled was the first weekend of COVID lock down. Just the way these things go? After months of waiting to see if the virus would disappear, I decided to scratch the live screening/performance with violinist John Lee and record him instead. This way, I could at least wrap it up and present it online.

I visited John in Pilsen, Chicago, where he helped me complete a five year endeavor.