{"id":1999,"date":"2013-03-11T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:26:09","slug":"umlaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/umlaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Umlaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w9Oa48yvmaQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w9Oa48yvmaQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from &#8220;Umlaut&#8221;, Choreography by Eva Stone, Artistic Director of The Stone Dance Collective, for Chop Shop: \u00a0Bodies of Work, A Contemporary Dance Festival, Bellevue, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The text for this piece is taken from an interview with what I call a &#8216;reluctant immigrant&#8217; from Poland to the US. \u00a0Interviews like this one are found on a cd compilation called &#8220;Crossing the Boulevard&#8221; and I was particularly drawn to this piece for both its honesty and its lies. \u00a0The young woman speaking had no desire to permanently leave her homeland when her parents lead her to believe she was visiting the US for vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the text from a choreographic perspective provided an exploratory foray into the creative experience. \u00a0Utilizing two dancers to portray one voice allowed me to highlight and emphasize more than one singular meaning within the language of the story. \u00a0Both dancers are red-heads (coincidental) and similarly dressed (not coincidental.) \u00a0A common choreographic tool is the use of unison, which tells the viewer that the dancers are really &#8216;one.&#8217; \u00a0Here, unison is used often, but then the unison begins to separate by one movement. \u00a0This gives more of an echo effect, as is used in the manipulation of the recording of the text. \u00a0This slight separation mirrors the story itself and further challenges the disillusionment of the situation, both verbally and physically. \u00a0 Sometimes the gestures are literal, more often they are abstract, but as the story unfolds in our ears, it also unfolds on stage and at times holds the viewer responsible for her extreme discomfort and sense of betrayal. \u00a0This story of immigration is one not often told and my goal was to keep the text and the story in the forefront of the work and the dance as merely a support to this young woman&#8217;s journey.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Stone,\u00a0Producer<br \/>\nChop Shop: \u00a0Bodies of Work<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopshopdance.org\/\">www.chopshopdance.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w9Oa48yvmaQ Excerpt from &#8220;Umlaut&#8221;, Choreography by Eva Stone, Artistic Director of The Stone Dance Collective, for Chop Shop: \u00a0Bodies of Work, A Contemporary Dance Festival, Bellevue, 2009 The text for this piece is taken from an interview with what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/umlaut\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-edition","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}