This creative process involved being challenged and being reflective. The demand of this process was remembering different versions of similar movement. After having a set phrase, movement will be added in between each movement, turning it into a completely different one. This was difficult for me as it was not a way of working that I was familiar with.
Throughout the weeks of rehearsal, we weren’t only asked to rehearse the choreography, but also to expand on it through adding our own meanings and interpretations into the movement. Our first rehearsals consisted of talking and reflecting upon our own experiences throughout this time. Then we shifted gears, and reflected upon other people’s experiences, and how Covid-19 has affected different communities.
Many of the things I reflected on during these first rehearsals involved understanding that one name does not mean one experience. That in fact, there are as many variations of the pandemic as the people living in it. Many experienced loss, fatigue, and desperation. These rehearsals allowed us to see the pandemic, not as a vast single experience but many individual experiences.
Every Breath 