MAXINE HEPPNER : CREATIONS
Blossom
Blossom : Description of work
Blossom
Commissioned by “Older & Reckless” March 2010
The process
As choreographer I create from internal impulses that I translate into simple motifs that I set on interpreters and then develop as I see the work from the outside. My main question to myself for this project: how I (not external dancers) embody and externalize these internal elements so that an audience sees what I’m imagining and sensing.
This project successfully had me re-enter a new work of my own as both dancer and choreographer, as for the previous 5 years or more my choreography has been ostensibly for other interpreters, and my performance has been small roles within those pieces or remounts of past works.
To this end I set up a process with private practice and creation time and a lot of open feedback time.
Blossom: Credits
Choreographer / Dancer
Maxine Heppner
Outside-eye, rehearsal director
Jessica Runge
Mentor
Denise Fujiwara
Composer
Andrew Timar
Musicians
Andrew Timar, Araz Salek
Theme collaborators
Miguel Frasconi, Takako Segawa
Designer
Maxine Heppner
Production associate
Jiv Parasram
Development through Older & Reckless with:
Claudia Moore, Kate Alton, Viv Moore, Sylvie Bouchard, Sashar Zarif, Julia Sasso
Producer of Older & Reckless
MoonHorse Dance Theatres