deep performance, collecting information about choreographers and how they get their work out to the public, changing bad habits, altering the dysfunctional mindset, chatting about the bigger picture over a cup of coffee or beer, making people hang over in a wide 2nd position parallel with a loose torso and moving through a deep plea, making my mind remember places my body forgot and traveling to those place again without judgment, people who work hard and don't talk too much about it before, during or after, the most efficient way of doing things, the forever young.
none of your beeswax.
Music Spank Dance Company has performed to original music by Andy Hadaway, Golden Arm Trio, Thollem McDonas, Peter Stopschinski, and Andrew Baron, and to recorded music by Black Sabbath, Lounge Lizards, Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich, Marc Ribot, Storm Of Drones, Barnard Parmegiani, Nicholas Lens,Edgar Meyer...also back ally cats fighting, the sound of someone pissing on dead leaves, the sounds of a space ship landing over a cool North East lake, singers warming up for a show. outdoor sounds, and my own drumming.
Rushmore, Rear Window, West Side Story, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, The Falcon and the Snowman, Time Bandits, Hair, The Jerk, Down By Law., any muppet movie, All That Jazz, Xanadu, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Death Race 2000, The Dark Crystal, Terminator, Beatlejuice, My Brothers Keeper.
too much... how clean is your house?
Anything by Carl Sagan, Franz Kafka, William Gibson, Suzan Langer, Walt Whitman, Chaim Burtman. Books: Chaos , Catch 22, 1984, Something Under the Bed is drooling, Driving Mr Albert, The History of Pi. Devil in the White City
The following has influenced the product and mind of the director of Spank Dance. Louise Larson, Jim Hanson, Andrea Ariel, Roller-Skating, drinking at an early age, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, Suzan Langer, Tom Waits, Butoh, Diane DeFries, dead-end bullshittin', the giggle patch from Magic Garden, drumming, sleeping disorders, NYC, Austin, Potsdam, Otto E. Rodic, the Mandelbrot Set, alternate universes like the really small, really slow, and the really big, bike riding, and doodeling. ..