Grass is Green
Directed by Joséphine A. Garibaldi Choreographed by Joséphine A. Garibaldi & Performers Sound Score mastered by Joséphine A. Garibaldi Performers:
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Grass is Green
29 April 2014 Zirgu Pasts, Riga, Latvia Directed by Joséphine A. Garibaldi, Grass is Green was a collaborative choreography project created with 3rd year Department of Contemporary Dance students of the Latvian Academy of Culture. Grass is Green was performed as part of the Dance Day festivities 29 April, 2014. Some of the work in Grass is Green was generated through the correlating project "Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space" where students in Latvia worked together in real time with students of the Department of Dance at Idaho State University in the United States to create the culminating work LIVE. "The title, for example," Garibaldi notes, "comes from a free associative writing that LKA student Taisia Frolova wrote during the process of creating LIVE". The text of Grass is Green was performed by the student who authored the text. The sound score of Grass is Green, mastered by Garibaldi, incorporates short audio works that the students had created.
"Each participant is reflected in Grass is Green," says Garibaldi, "each performer assuming a creative role in the making of this work. The chair section, for example, was the end result of having two dancers with foot injuries. As was planned for the day, I provided choreographic prompts for all the performers to develop movement. I said to the two, Anja and Maija, use the chairs and the fact that you are not able to bear weight as your choreographic limitation". What developed from these restrictions was the entire meme of using chairs throughout the piece as the connective tissue. "Martins was my Sysiphus, moving piles of chairs from one part of the stage to the other throughout the entire work."
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