Country: Skype, Capital: St. Not There-ness

The Moving Architects continue rehearsing through Skype. Yet at this juncture, I also have the added bonus of studying coursework that is helping me use (rather than be a bit fearful of) technology for what it is and can be and will be into my coming decades (gulp) as a choreographer. I was listing out all the places my company is traveling to in the next six months - Chicago, Berwyn (IL), Columbus (OH), Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Chambersburg (PA) - and I'd like to add to that Skypeland. For there are new realities in this land just as much as in these other lands, and for one thing I know audio levels are a problem. So I've listed below some of my food for thought and discussion points from an independent study with other dancemaking grads this quarter. And remember that our set-up is me Columbus, company Chicago:

Physical body vs. Visual Body
How to frame my perspective
I see phrases interrupted when they leave my view
Entrances and exits
Awareness through different parts of my brain
When dancers out of view but still there
Personalizing in the work my relationship to interacting with technology
My sense of "not there-ness", alongside my senses of "there-ness" - what is that?
Pretending to be there, when I am clearly not
Timing and Phrasing feels different
How to direct, play with a new set of permissions and the dancer's reactions
Intimacy through camera/scale with me seeing them and vice versa
Logic

This new work PLUCK we are creating is all about Power. I think that topic found me last summer, but now this set-up carries a new load of questions. And yes, I am fairly convinced at this point that I may turn into part robot by 2050.