The 9/11 image of the falling man, is so iconic and is such a famous image in the 21st century. Tom choreographed a movement piece to the soundtrack of the film Gravity. Mark and I have a duet where we represent that actual falling of those 2 people, we anticipated conveying the strength and power of those two humans who are holding hands and falling out of the building together. We can not confirm their relationship, but Mark and I wanted to do depict the emotion and energy that radiated off those two bodies as they fell hundreds of metres to the ground.
I wanted to convey the emotions that go through ones head as they are plummeting in those last few moments. The dance is so energetic and we use every single fibre in our body to try reliving this moment.
An element that we found hard to achieve initially was using each others weight to hold ourselves up. Annie Loui conveys precisely the skill involved in partner work: ‘your ‘share in the endeavour will exchange roles with you as ‘base’ and ‘flier’ providing a secure foundation and alternatively and elegant manoeuvrable body’ (Loui, 2009, 92). Tom had advised that although the dance was choreographed it needed to look so natural and we needed to throw each other and trust each other to support one another.
Loui, A. (2009 The Physical Actor, Exercise for action and awareness. Oxon: Routledge.