Salt continued its run until December of 2000 in over sixty cities in Europe, North American, the Middle East and Asia. I suppose I still consider the paths and the direction the body takes in movement to be as real as the bones that frame it and the thoughts that order it.
Movement is the silent voice, a significant indicator of both the personal and social unconscious.
The process, however, is abstract and my pieces will never reveal anything absolute. The work is a cascading series of lyrical and intense pas de deux , of choreographic phrases and sequences unfolding at the speed of thought, purposely disorienting our perception. Disrupting the dance, which seems to be carved directly out of light, are projected images evoking the passage of time, time which speeds up and pounds away relentlessly. The sound landscape for piano, cello and electric guitar, played live on stage, was created by American composer David Lang, with additional music by Kevin Shields of the Irish group My Bloody Valentine. Nine dancers and three musicians perform in this production.