Right away this article caught my attention. In the first sentence, she says she is frequently charged with ‘“freeing” the dance from music’. I loved this description and the images it brought to mind. From the start you can tell the author is not just a girl who dances in front of her bathroom mirror; but rather her art is an extension of her life and soul. I always have great respect for people who can take something so creative and make it their essence. She describes how she sees the world of music and dance and how organic it must be in its fluidity. This is what she is constantly striving to achieve in her compositions and choreography. In her mind the movement and the sound are one in the same and in order for them to work they must be created simultaneously and as a singular unit. I have never really heard of someone creating and performing in this manner, so it was very interesting to see how the author would feed off her everyday emotions and become inspired to move and then to call upon an instrument to form a partnership with that movement. I would love to see a performance like the one she spoke of, where the musicians and dancers changed spots and integrated seamlessly with one another. I think that Mary Wigman has a fascinating creative process, very much ahead of her time. It really is insane and beautiful how many levels of movement, emotion and sound she felt and expressed from ground up.
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