I've been joking lately about my participation in Ballet Nouveau's Love: A Joint Venture.
I keep telling fellow writers that if ever a dance company approaches them about using--or commissioning--some work as the starting point for a new ballet performance, that they should readily accept the offer.
Of course I know that I am incredibly lucky. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Especially for a poet.
Poets rarely consider an audience of readers; they even more rarely consider a one-person audience (choreographer) who will then take the writing and make that voice come alive--to cloak the words in flesh and then move in ways that are beautifully expressive. And then to be gifted with an audience who will sit and watch--and hopefully be moved by--a live performance of words and dance.
I hope to see you there. I really think you will be amazed. February 6 thru 15.
--MJH
