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snow ai
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she goes outside to investigate the winter wonderland that surrounds her. In the course of her exploration, she learns new “names” for snow — and a new sense of scale in her life.
Juxtaposed with this soulful examination of a blizzard’s effects is a second “story line” inspired by the modernist poem “Counting Sheep” by Russell Edson. Here the four dancers recite lines from the poem as they portray imaginary sheep shrunk to the size of grains of rice by a scientist who studies them through a microscope.
The scientist wonders “if he should try to shrink a pasture for them” and “if they have any sense of scale?” The scientist speculates if the sheep “could be used as a substitute for rice, a sort of woolly rice.” During the “Counting Sheep” dance sections, the dancers “baa” like sheep and appear lost in an alien “test tube” world.
After the first performance of “20 Words for Snow," the audience was treated to apple pie and an absorbing half-hour discussion about the two dance pieces.
Laurie Marshall, the evening’s master of ceremonies, encouraged the audience to “find your own meaning” and to connect the dance pieces “to any experiences in your own life.” Almost everyone did — recalling memories, and even dreams, amid laughter and the relief of a genuine sense of shared experience.
Someone asked how the dancers felt portraying ricesized sheep in a test tube. Kitty Keller said, “Unnerving.” Kim Doyle said, “I’m realizing how often I feel like a sheep in my real life.” And StappHarris just said, “Baa,” which made everyone laugh.
When asked by Carla Theordore about the connection between the two segments of “20 Words for Snow,”
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