Students Talk: The Last to Know
In an effort to reach out into the college dance scene, one post a month will be written by a dance student from one of the many campuses based right here in New York City. Get the fresh perspective of the next generation of dance innovators.
We start the series with New School student, Saifan Shmerer.
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The Last to Know
I walk into my first rehearsal for my Advanced Repertory class, change into my dance clothes, warm up in the corner, and psych myself up for the last Rep class of my college life. When our esteemed guest choreographer peels his Julliard-trained body off the floor where he’s been splayed since I walked in, and slides back into the reality of that particular studio, he doesn’t set any material on us. He doesn’t even pretend like he’s going to.
“What if your whole body, 360 degrees, could perceive time and space, uniquely and originally?”
Huh?
Two weeks later, I’m on the train and trying to do my ‘Dance and Theories of Communities’ homework. I’m tired, fading in and out of the literature, when deja-vu hits.
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