Now just check your shoulders. Nice soft fingers. And there is something else often at work here, a sense that the movement of dance creates pure joy. Nice and smooth. Seven, eight, and one, two, and a three and four.
Exhilaration is sometimes in short supply the week before a performance.
With just days to go, Valarie continues to fiddle and refine the piece on the dancers' performance. The larger problems of staging give way to the polishing of lots of little details. Quite a lot of changes have gone on along the way. I'm really quite pleased with it now. Travel, how quickly dancers move from one place to another, has been the problem in one section in particular.