I toured to the maximum. Now her responsibilities have shifted from performing roles to recreating them with other dancers. I am still so involved and responsible for a total recreation - it is like a birth. I got to do it - make it happen. Set to violin concertos by J.S. Bach, the piece embodies Taylor's original ideas about gesture, pedestrian movement and the beauty of people and their motions through space.
Gestures reoccur in a variety of moods, depending on the section of the dance.
A particular motion is happy at one point and later becomes tragic. On top of the hundreds of hours of rehearsals for this project, Cochran generously gave private coaching to members of the casts. Impressed with the students in the dance department here, Cochran recognizes their good energies and their abilities to cover space and express gestures honestly. She expected that same standard from us. Cochran spoke excitedly about the variety of styles within the modern dance field.