Title: The Only Way Around

Premiere: Ann Arbor Dance Works, 1991, Studio A Theater, Dance Building, Ann Arbor.

Duration: 12 minutes

Music: Stephen Rush

Video backdrop: Jessica Fogel

Lighting Design: Mary Cole

Dancers: Amy Drum, David Genson, Christine Knight, Lynn Neuman, Matthew Rose,

Description: A multi-media work with music, dance, text and video projection. The title comes from a poem of the same title by Archie Ammons, found in his collection Lake Effect Country. The dancers seek multiple ways of making it through, while in the backdrop, a video depicts a pileated woodpecker banging its beak into a tree trunk. I videotaped the bird with my new video camera at the Interlochen Arts Center where I was teaching that summer.

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