The ocean will provide our soundscape and allow the dancers to synchronize their movements, and ultimately their breathing, with the timing of the waves rolling towards and away from the shore.” Within our own bodies and around the planet, there are pulses, natural rhythms, the breath, our heart beating, the blood flow and the ocean mimics these pulses, or vice versa and our pulses and rhythms mimic that of the ocean. The dance bases its meter off of the rhythm of the ocean waves.Īccording to Teichmann, “We all came from the waters. Her minimalist set and organic soundscape are not to be taken as a simplistic approach to performance. It is not limited to professionals, to a specific genre or movement or motif style, to a stage and is not permanently or always tied to accompaniment,” she said. They were performed with many types of music, or with no accompaniment at all…Dance can exist in any environment for any reason. To thank the gods, to declare war, out of sheer joy, anguish and ecstacy. These dances existed for many different reasons. “Dance has been a part of the human experience since we became human, and maybe even before then if you look at the mating and ritual dances that birds, lizards, bees and other animals perform. That’s not to say that through her work, she’s found the answers, but Teichmann doesn’t shy away from exploring her personal understanding of mythology as it relates to her art. Through movement, she ponders, “How do we as humans today relate to where we came from, our beliefs, scientific, spiritual, religious, and so on?” and “If we all came from the same thing or being, then are we all essentially the same?” The dance is Teichmann’s response to life’s bigger ideas, such as the birth of man, the Big Bang Theory, spirituality and cultural creation myths. There are, however, also a host of more esoteric reasons as well. Also, the sand is compact enough that the performers don’t have to work extra hard to perform the dance,” according to company founder and artistic director Natalie Teichmann.
Not in the sense of the local culture, but rather because the beach is “the cleanest, least populated beach that was accessible by MetroCard.
The modern dance performance, titled “How Is It Infinite,” was created specifically for Manhattan Beach.
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