Collaborations with Bronwyn Judge
Re-Singing the Song
“[Bronwyn] and I decided to share a programme where our two choreographic styles could evolve side by side. I choreographed three solos for Bronwyn, including “Jeptha’s Daughter” and “Transfigured Night”. At the conclusion of each of these items, headed under the title “Re-Singing the Song”, Bron echoed my works with her own emotional and choreographic response in her unique dance style. Mine and Bron’s dances are there to be compared, indicating that modern dance is no institution, but rather a ladder which each generation ascends to make its own statement, in the style of their time. Bronwyn’s third solo, and the main work of the programme, “Wellsprings to Isadora” dealt with the life and art of the first great pioneer of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. After much research I choreographed a dance in what was, I believe, a style close to that of Duncan’s herself. In a way therefore, the programme stretched right back to the very beginnings of modern dance, through to contemporary New Zealand expression.”
Leap of Faith, pg. 231