The Lively Foundation
It was exciting to hear about the recent discovery of prehistoric flutes, 35,000 old. Just imagine, so many thousands of years ago, making music was important to prehistoric humans.
It was especially exciting for me because in choreographing the dance, “The Gardener’s Dilemma,” which I premiered at Cowell Theater, March 1st, it came to me that the creature I was evolving would discover a wheel, pull a stick from the wheel, and then show how the stick could be used as a weapon or as a flute. One of those ideas that suddenly happens in the studio while I am moving, making a dance. The dance was in honor of the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species.
I did worry about authenticity--and it turns out, flutes really were made by the earliest humans Humans evolved with both abilities: art and assault.
Leslie discovers music in her dance, The Gardener’s Dilemma. Photo from dress rehearsal at Cowell Theater.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Darwin/Choreography/Flutes
