Worm-Hole (Dance Today With Niki)
ARCHIVE EDITOR'S NOTE --- During her engagement at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in August 2002, Niki had the opportunity to write a piece for the now-defunct website Dance Today as follows:
By Niki McCretton
In Worm-Hole, I use my training in contemporary dance to tell the deeply moving story of a young woman who is trying to meet life's challenges. The piece deals, in a comic yet moving way, with such issues as conforming, the work ethic and religion.
The piece was created through a mixture of writing (in the form of a short "treatment" which contained the main scenes and structure of the piece), and then devising physically with my director Judy Preston, who is Canadian. This involved a process of physicalizing the written ideas - using improvisation to arrive at movement passages, and then finding ways to layer the meaning of the narrative on top of pure movement. A very exciting process!
The tale is told almost completely with physicality, using repetition and the development of movement to enable the character to express herself fully. Audience members say that it is highly thought-provoking and that the piece acts as a mirror held up to the life of whoever is watching it. It is not pure dance ... it is a story, but I feel it is a show that makes movement-based theatre accessible to those who are not already converted!
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Webpage Last Updated 15 May 2007
