The Quarry Project

While waiting for access to the quarry, we constructed and launched a 12×24’ prototype stage on a neighbor’s pond where twelve dancers spent time figuring out how to move on a floating platform. As we experimented, we spoke of water – how we originate from water, are made up of water/fluids, how strong a force it is for both sustenance and destruction, and all the feelings that arise around and in water.

At the end of August, we were given a day to try things out in the quarry. Julia Barstow and Michael Fisher captured the essence on film.

Andric Severance and Sofia Hirsch, with an assortment of instruments, spent three hours in the morning improvising various musical and sonic possibilities as Dave and I listened.

In the afternoon, Amy LePage, Laurel Jenkins and Coulter Cluett improvised movement throughout the quarry so Leslie and I could determine perspective, and see the set, colors, and body language possibilities. 

As a result of that one day, permission to proceed was granted.

To finally be in this quarry, on the water, surrounded by stone, feeling this project that had been such a strong, pulling force, becoming a reality was profoundly moving.

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