How Do You Choreograph A Dance With 10,000 Gestures, Every One Of Them Different?

"10000 Gestures ... may be a one-line idea, but it's an extremely complicated one. [Boris] Charmatz's concept is that no gesture - a word he uses to refer to any single movement, be it a dance step or a shoulder shrug - is ever repeated; and that every dancer's sequence is unique." Says Charmatz, "If you don't repeat, you are throwing your material away all the time. You cannot do 'good' choreography like this. ... It takes the pressure away."

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