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Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
Hi my name is Claire Summers and I am a dance artist and creative producer living and working in the South West of England. I am currently working for Dance in Devon as the South Devon Dance Ambassador as part of their Dance Compass project, for Plymouth Dance as part of their Ignite, Engage and Inspire project and for the Theatre Royal Plymouth for their School Ties Project. I am a co-Director and manager of Exim Dance Company CIC as well as working as a freelance creative producer and manager for other artists and companies. I am also in the first year of a Masters of Research in Dance studying at Plymouth University.

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Working with Emma...Still on the Post-Modern choreo 10th Jan 2011



So from 5th an until now myself and Kevin have been locked away in the studio working on Breathe Me. 

This wan't an easy process, in fact at times it was extremely difficult on both of us as we are very different artistically, I'm probably into the weirder more abstract stuff and I didn't agree on a lot of the creative decision's. My stress levels were pretty high as I knew that is wasn't keen on my choreography and also decided because of this that I couldn't do it at the two professional shows meaning a whole section of my project couldn't be done (In the Wild and all of the post degree work Jon May wanted to do in the Lab) this was a massive disappointment and a big confidence blow. 

So I have been struggling a lot and getting very stressed I now have 5 days to get this finished, its Monday and the showing is on Sunday, GULP! 

So another session in the studio was planned, this time with Emma Mannings who is also on my course and came in with me today to work on my solo with me. We just did an hour, I talked her through my process and put the movement in context (all four of them) she helped me to refine some of the gestural stuff and also map out the second anxiety bit that I had been struggling with. So left today feeling really positive about it which I really needed as I took a complete knock in confidence last week. 

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