Commission #1

The time has come for YOU to participate and create! As part of the Lunge Dance Collective Creation Blog, I will be submitting a number of Commissions that I will need completed in order to aid in the development of Lunge's 2012 New Creation. This is the opportunity for you as an audience to help control and influence what the final product that ends up on stage will look like. Anyone can take part and reply to the Commission by simply leaving your contribution as a comment below! 

Commission #1

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So here's the challenge: I am currently seeking stock footage from any film (silent or talkies) from the 1920's to the 1950's to serve as inspiration and maybe even incorporated into the New Creation as projection. We need film and LOTS of it! 

Details: To submit please a working link to the video, the title of the film, the year the film was created, and any other information you have on the scene or clip. I am looking for EVERYTHING! Hollywood kisses, fainting, dance scenes, technicolor, cartoons, Nosferatu, fight scenes, westerns, I want it all! Don't be afraid to submit multiple clips!

PRIZES!!! Oh yes! There are prizes! My favorite video clip will receive a free Lunge Dance Collective t-shirt mailed to your front door! As well as a badass picture of some Lungers kicking butt!


So those are the guidelines, now get to searching!!! The best clip will be decided on March16th. Cant wait to see what you all come up with! If you have any questions please post as a comment and I'll respond as soon as I can! Thanks for your collaboration!


~ Billy

Launch of 2012 Sponsorship Campaign

 As we start to form this open collaborative environment that is the 2012 New Creation, we find ourselves needing what every exploration and adventure needs- funding. How do we start? Who do we ask? What do we say? All valid questions. Phase one of our Sponsorship Campaign is going to focus on targeting individuals for private and corporate sponsorships. Have someone in mind that might be interested? Send them our Sponsorship Letter and Donation Form. You can email it, print and ship it, telegraph it, or even do your interpretive dance version of it (please upload to youtube). However you feel, the one thing that must remain consistent is that we are all constantly spreading the word. The more hype and excitement that we can get over the 2012 New Creation, the more people will want to make it happen.

So what is it?

The 2012 New Creation is the future work of Lunge Dance Collective. The plan is for it to be a full evening-legnth work. It is about how development of technology's goal is to bring us closer together but it actually gives us an excuse to further isolate ourselves from one another. We plan to develop this within the theme of the destruction of the silent film era. Using a shorter work already danced by Lunge Dance Collective, the goal is to expand "You'll Never Be Alone" into a 1hr and 15min piece that functions as a silent film itself. I'm fascinated by the over exaggeration of character and gesture within silent film and find it an interesting contrast with our innate response to communication. Playing with concepts of dissolving movement in and out of ridiculousness, the 2012 New Creation's goal is to leave the audience feeling void of character and in want of more, with an echoing reminder that You'll Never Be Alone...

...Here On Earth.

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About The Lunge Dance Creation Blog

Welcome to the Creation Blog!
This blog is to serve as a place for complete creative freedom. Here, you can keep up to date with Lunge Dance Collective's Creative Processes. Basically, you are able to see what were doing, why were doing it, and how we create! It is our virtual invitation to you to be a guest in every single one of our rehearsals! As we gear up for our 2012 New Creation, we will start to post ideas, concepts, character traits, costume, light, and set sketches, as well as open up audience participated forums to help us guide our way through the process. Essentially, YOU help create our work. We hope to inspire, provoke thought, and all-in-all create new and innovative art that our audience can hands-on be a part of!

So help spread the word! Share our new creative haven on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Vimeo, Match.Com, and any other way us humans communicate!

And just to start you off- Here's a little hint for what's in store for the 2012 New Creation!
Enjoy!>>

~ Billy Bell