Resolution 1, Finding a Dancer

As I have now added a movement and dance element to my piece as well as the symbolic visuals I needed to find a dancer. I toyed with the idea of performing the movement myself as it is a personal piece on my experience of my parents divorce. However the kind of dance moves I want to capture to express the emotions involve a lot of movement of muscles and body isolate of certain features which I know I will be unable to successfully perform myself. This led me to decide that I am going to use a dancer to represent myself and my emotions as their body will be much more capable of this movement. I was going to reach out locally and source a dance however because I already know a Dancer (Grace) who I have worked with before on my previous dance project and we had so much success together I wanted to offer this opportunity to her firstly to see if she was interested as I knew she was more than capable. I messaged her and she was very interested but had asked to see more information on the project so she could make her decision. This is the email I sent her:

I am now waiting for her to look over this and give me her answer. If she wishes to proceed I will draw up a performers contract and have a meeting with her. If not then I will advertise the position locally to find any other interest and audition and cast at the end of this year or potentially the start of next year.

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*UPDATE*

Grace who I emailed above agreed to be part of my piece. Here are the messages which were exchanged:

Grace - 'Hello Billie, so sorry for the late reply! Been super busy with work. The project sounds really really cool! The videos as well were super different and really drew you in. I would love of course to be involved! The only problem is that I won't know if I can do the filming days until I get my roster for that month which won't be until January (such a pain). But its more than likely I will have at least one day off that week so hopefully it would work out.'

Billie - 'Hello! No worries, I completely get it. Awww I'm so happy you'r interested. Yeah, if you tell me the days of the week your free once you know I can work around you, I'm just super excited to work with you again! Well if your happy to start working on it maybe we could have a meeting in the next few weeks just to chat about it a bit more and then decide what kind of rehearsal and approach would work best? Just let me know.'

I am awaiting a response form her now but hopefully we will be able to have a meeting and possibly a experimental rehearsal in the next few weeks!