There Might Be Others is a choreographic work in development by the American dancer and choreographer Rebecca Lazier. The starting point for the choreography is the score and a set of performer instructions for composer Terry Riley’s seminal aleatoric score, In C.
The basic ‘blocks’ of choreography are movement modules that range from virtuosic gestures and task-based prompts to audience interactions. The performers choose to repeat each module as many times as they wish while staying within several modules of one another. The choreography unfolds as the individuals respond to changing situations and chance encounters. At one moment quiet, the next boisterous, the work reveals dancer’s decision-making process and the ever-evolving modules of the performance.
The practice of There Might Be Others empowers the individual performer while reinforcing the collective action. The aleatoric elements of the score create a balance between strictly defined vocabulary and an aesthetic of spontaneous creation. The work is co-authored, while the choreographic vision set forth in the articulation of the individual modules remains present, the dancers determine the unity, or contrast, of the overall piece. Lazier’s goal is to build a dance that is visceral and visual, individual and communal, chaotic and simple, and proposes dancing as a mode of choreographing, and choreographing as a mode of being.
– reads the press release of the project.
Rebecca Lazier is a New York-based choreographer and dancer. Since 1995, she has created works that have been shown at the most important stages in New York – La MaMa, Dansepace Project, The Kitchen, the Guggenheim Museum and many cities in the US and beyond. Her recent production – Coming Together / Attica created in Greece – was hailed one of the most memorable experiences of 2013 by critic Eva Yaa Asantewaa. The film based on this work was screened, among other venues, at the Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Rebecca Lazier has been artist-in-residence at Movement Research, The Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard and the Djerassi Resident Artist Programme and has received grants from numerous international programmes and institutions. She is a Senior Lecturer at Princeton University and has previously been on the faculty of UCLA, Inc. Mimar Sinan Conservatory in Istanbul, Trinity College, Hartford Ballet and at Wesleyan University. She was the festival director of the White Mountain Summer Dance Festival from 2002-2006 and has been a panelist at many conferences including Dance USA, Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, Congress on Research in Dance, and The Juilliard School.
Choreography: Rebecca Lazier
Dancers: Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska, Simon Courchel, Natalie Green, Kaya Kołodziejczyk, Agnieszka Kryst, Jan Lorys, Ramona Nagabczyńska, Christopher Ralph, Paweł Sakowicz, Anna Steller
The performance is co-organized by Campus Project, an initiative of The Adam Mickiewicz Institute