Recollection
 

Recollection

January 2001


Performances:
Thumbnail Festival
Venue 9
Dancers’ Group, San Francisco
Danceworks at San Jose State University Theatre
American College Dance Festival, Albuquerque, NM
Summerfest/dance.2003, San Francisco, CA

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Music :
Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall & Yo Yo Ma
Costumes : Brittany Brown Ceres
Dancers:
Emma Stewart & Brittany Brown Ceres
Duration : 11.5 minutes

Photo : Andy Mogg


Pictured F-B:
Emma Stewart and Brittany Brown Ceres
Photo by Andy Mogg

 

"Brittany Brown's Recollection - suggested we were in the presence of genuine craft and individual sensibility" 
–Allan Ulrich, Voiceofdance.com, July 2003

"the fluidity of the duet was truly remarkable—
it was like watching one dancer split in two.”

–Natasha Grach, Stanford University 2001

 

 

 

Recollection is exactly what it infers.  The choreography of this duet is reconfigured material from my past four pieces and will be presented as thematic connective tissue, interwoven between these larger pieces in my thesis concert, to be presented in June 2001, at Stanford University.  With this piece, both in process and product, I explore the drastic changes that can develop by shifting music and structure. By reducing these phrases from large-scale group works, into a duet form, intimacy and thematic emotion are heightened.

Recollection I, II & III are a series of three small pieces that all investigate the departure from the foundation and support of a home or relationship.  Though not in a narrative form, emotional grounding, longing for support, and unconditional investment are explored through the movement and performance relationship created between the dancers.