Movement Examples

• Strong connection with the aural setting

  An expression of Bill Withers’ music. In “Ain’t no sunshine”, – North allows the dancer to move across and against the music on the repeated lyric “I know, I know” as the dancer repeats a scrambling action on the floor in a rhythm counterpoint to the lyrics' rhythm. Dance has an episodic form with separate Bill Withers songs for each section. Follows the lyrical narrative of each piece of music.
• Combines a range of dance styles

  A succession of Jazz style step ball changes with opposition arms used as a travelling step by the dancers across the stage in “Another Day to Run”. In section 3 “Let me in your life” a lyrical duet is performed with balletic lifts in arabesque and chaînés turns punctuated by fluid use of torso in contraction and high release linked to Graham technique.
• Thematic, emotive and often entertaining subject matter

  The theme is a ‘lonely guy in a big city’. In section 2, “Another Day to Run”, the lone male character is pushed and pulled around and finally pushed to the floor by the other three dancers after having danced with an ‘off-balance” uncontrolled quality as if affected by alcohol/drugs.