AN ABSENCE OF FENCES

Boston Premiere (April 2005)

Choreography by: Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp

Lighting/Scenic Design: Benoit Beauchamp

Costume Design: Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp

Poety Writer: Sophie Klahr

Music Composition: Alex Vishno

Dancers: Collen Aleckna, Josie Bray, Susan Brown, Kristen Duffy, Stephanie Eaton, Sarah Sadie Newett, Emily Randolph, Emily Schreiner, Danny Swain, derek slight, Lauren Tymon

This piece examines the idea of intimacy through movment. Intimacy is the process of sharing the innermost, essential parts of our being with another through close relationships. Closeness can be achieved through emotional, psychological, emotional and/or spiritual sharing and proximity.

An Absence of Fences looks at different types of intimacy. Each pieces explore duets of varying relationships. The use of LMA was extremely useful in this process.

What is intimacy when looking through the lens of LMA? There is not one consistent answer. Every person interacts differently depending on whom they are with and the situation they are in. There are, however, some over-arching themes in the LMA systems that can be found in most of the intimate situations that I have observed. The themes that I find prevalent are the Self-Self and Self-Other cycles. There is some form of the theme in most intimate relations whether it is primarily a physical connection or a psychological one. There is a need to be in relation to one self before relating to another. This idea also includes the theme of Inner Outer. Again, being able to know what is happening inside oneself and then bringing it to outer manifestation.