DANCERS Selecting the dancers and combining them with a corresponding backdrop has been a labor of love and a very interesting game of mental chess. From the beginning I have drawn out, cut out, talked about and visualized the final images and how they would relate to each other but until I selected a dancer today and dropped her into the first backdrop, I never knew quite what they were going to look like. Trying to balance form, shape, contrast and relationships was a mental exercise in which I spent many hours thinking about how each one affected the other. I was very sensitive to the visual impact of lighter costumes with darker backdrops. The interactions and contradictions that arose from placing different dancers together, as well as the individual dancers within each environment, made for a multidimensional puzzle to figure out. And I love a good puzzle! I could feel the tension between the two dancers due to the nature of their costumes a...
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