“The Awakening ”

In modern dance there are no general rules. Each work of art creates it's own language.

In the 1920's and 1930's, choreographers virtually reinvented dance. It is perhaps significant that the two nations in which modern dance took strongest, America and Germany, were two nations that had no celebrated ballet companies.

In creating this sculpture, I am striving to capture the motion of a dancer that exists on an arc between absolute motionlessness, and complete collapse.

It is a study of the dynamics of balance and imbalance.

This composition is an exploration of the relationship between Extension, fall and recovery, which I find analogous to Awakening from a dream.