The 30th Hour - premiered March 22, 2010, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC
The 30th Hour was a performance experiment designed to gather information about the nature of endurance, persistence, and the act of performance. Miranda Jirik, Lori Yuill, and I will spend 30 consecutive hours working together on material that was shown during the last hour at Movement Research at Judson Church. Interrogating the endurance of body and mind, the act of performance, and the circumstances within which I make work, this event asked what happens if the usual rehearsal period is exploded? What happens if, for 30 hours, we commit our attention fully to dancing? What happens to my choreographic thinking, and to our dancing, when we are so thoroughly removed from our habitual context of subways, appointments, jobs, household chores, circadian rhythms, and squeezing things in? What if this is not about heroism, spectacle, or competition, but is rather just how we choose to spend some time?