Post # 5:

Title: TO BUILD A HOME
Choreography: Chris Jarosz
Music: “To Build a Home” – Cinematic Orchestra
Dancers: Katie Drablos, Chris Jarosz, Willis Johnston, Lauren Perry





MY DESCRIPTION OF THE DANCE MOVEMENTS & THE PIECE AS A WHOLE:

TO BUILD A HOME is heartwarming, tender, HONEST, HUMAN, emotional, LIVING, BREATH. There is such clear LIFE OF THE CENTER in this piece




GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:

The movement in this dance ALL comes from the center body. More importantly, however, the movement comes from the human heart. ENERGY MOVES throughout this dance as you SEE the inner and outer STRUGGLES of the dancers for each other and for LOVE and CONNECTENDESS. You see the PASSION of the dancers overflowing, unbounded, sheer JUBILATION. There is a REAL CONNECTION between partners, a FEELING of each other. The dancers dance WITH each other.




MY INTERPRETATION OF MESSAGE:

TO BUILD A HOME has at its roots, the subject of human romantic RELATIONSHIPS. These relationships bring forth the FAMILY and the HOME. Jarosz’s work TELLS THE STORY of building such a HOME, and the real STRUGGLES that accompany such a daring act of FAITH.




MOTIVATING LYRICS:

(PLEASE NOTE: Jarosz’s work begins in the music after the solid line and multiple asterics, and continues through the end of the lyrics.)

There is a house built out of stoneWooden floors, walls and window sillsTables and chairs worn by all of the dustThis is a place where I don't feel aloneThis is a place where i feel at homeAnd I built a homeFor youFor meUntil it disappearedFrom meFrom youAnd now, it's time to leave and turn to dust(Instrumental)________________________________________________***** Out in the garden where we planted the seedsThere is a tree as old as meBranches were sewn by the color of greenGround had arose and passed it's kneesBy the cracks of the skin I climbed to the topI climbed the tree to see the worldWhen the gusts came around to blow me downI held on as tightly as you held onto meI held on as tightly as you held onto meAnd I built a homeFor youFor meUntil it disappearedFrom meFrom youAnd now, it's time to leave and turn to dust



VIDEO CLIP:

TO BUILD A HOME video clip (filmed by Christine Harris)




FAVORITE MOMENTS:

.14 – look
.17 – hand clasp
.36 – Katie Drablos
.40 – Katie Drablos
.53-5 – Katie Drablos
1.15-.20 – Lauren Perry
1.23-.34 – Katie Drablos & Chris Jarosz
1.30-.39 – Lauren Perry & Willis Johnston
1.43 – Chris Jarosz
1.48 – Katie Drablos
1.53 – leap
2.02-.04 – Willis Johnston
2.09 – kiss
2.19 – Chris Jarosz & Lauren Perry (lift)
2.28-9 – Chris Jarosz & Katie Drablos
2.41-end – all interactions