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Crowne treated their Warrenton audience to an intimate view of people who live their lives for dance in a duet choreographed by Crowne entitled “The Ground Between Us.”
The piece made use of four TVs, live speaking, taped music, taped speaking and live dance. The video footage was created by Grayson Mattingly, in collaboration with Crowne. Its theme was built around the fact that both Crowne and Nash live in the same vicinity, are choreographers, teachers, administrators of a company and performers and have a shared mission as dancers/artists.
Within this common framework, they are two very distinct individuals and Crowne’s piece highlighted how they’re different and how they’re the same.
At the beginning, as they spoke about the stresses and triumphs of their creative process, their separateness was emphasized. With unison movements echoed and repeated by the television images behind them, the duet ended with the portrayal of a connection between friends that transcended competition and the stricture of role—an acceptance of difference and respect for each other’s art.
Crowne and Nash are both beautiful and fluid movers. The main difference between them in this duet was Crowne’s other worldly, airborne, meditative style of performing contrasted with Nash’s way of executing technique with clear and natural emotional intentions. Crowne’s trans-cendent way of moving and Nash’s lyrical, present-centered style acted as fascina
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