Tu Eres Mi Otro Yo (You Are My Other Self)

Premiered 2003

Choreography by Beth Burns

Scenic Design by Kate Edmunds

Costume Design by Beth Burns

Lighting Design by Ben Tusher

Sound Design by Scott Fraser

Projection Design by Gordon Kurowski

Music by Peter Bernstein, Tomas Mendez Sosa, Christopher Barron, Charles Lloyd, and Mulgrew Miller

Performed by The Ramon Banda Ensemble

Tu Eres Mi Otro Yo (Mayan call for unity), looks at young peoples’ search for self-acceptance and belonging.  The work germinated from students’ study of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.  Each rehearsal began in a circle of students’ sharing their present feelings, and concluded with quiet journaling.  The dance’s visual orientation came from students’ photographs of places where they’ve experienced powerful emotions.  The dancers created line drawings of each other which were painted on their costumes.  Underneath, their own drawn self-portraits are revealed in a moment of generous, self-expressive dancing.  A glimpse of each, as indeed our other self.