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To explore and celebrate natural pattern and its beauty and dimension though painting, design, movement and fabric. The live performance is meant to engage viewers on a deeper level, as dancers move through the choreography and bring the fabrics to life. The paintings are a deep exploration of color, shape and pattern into which I'm diving and from that dive I'm pulling my inspiration for choreography and fabric designs. The biggest goal for this show is to successfully combine original work from a few disciplines into one show to celebrate natural pattern. I want to engage viewers in new and exciting ways and enhance each viewer’s experience of my concept at the show because of the multi-disciplinary approach. To help me evaluate if I've achieved my goals, I will gather feedback from a couple different groups. I will ask my dancers to respond to several questions at the close of the show about how they saw or experienced pattern through the movement, fabrics and visuals. I would also like to offer a response resource for visitors at the opening. There would be a couple questions and room for independent comments as well. Finally, I will invite several artists that I know to the opening from different disciplines and ask them for their impressions from the show. I believe I will be able to evaluate the success of the show with the wide variety feedback I will receive.
I created 3 different surveys and gave them to those who attended the opening, a couple of artists (painters and designers) and the dancers who danced in the opening. I asked about what they thought worked the best, if there were areas that seemed disconnected and overall if the show helped them to see pattern in a new light. I received 33 surveys from audience members on opening night, 3 survey answers from dancers in the production and 3 from other artists. I really enjoyed the diversity of comments, particularly from the dancers and other artists about what they liked and where they would have liked to see more experimentation.
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