Welcome to the blog for mine and Fiona's work on the Lone dance piece. I don't have a title for the piece yet so its' still "lone dance", work is going well (I think) as something is taking shape that I like, at this stage it is slightly unidentifiable but that is oftern the way when working on a devised piece. I have been encountering two big hurdles this week; one is the music, I'm in conversation with composer Dirk Cambel about making a score for the piece, he and I have worked together in the past with good results. This time I am approaching the music from the point of view of using it as a structuring devise,taking Pina Bausch's use of the BArtok opera in her piece Bluebeard, I am working with the idea that Fiona stops and starts the music which is being played on and old fashioned record player, and this means that the score must be legible over a period inwhich it stops and starts. The main question that has come up is what is the role of the score in creating narrative and how much narrative do I want?.I'm researching different sounds and types of music in order to get to the bottom of this, it seems that this task might have been easier if I had started with the music first - but hey I'm a choreographer!The other question that has been in the back of my mind is how far do I have the right to push Fiona's physicality, I , at some point, may be asking her to do something that is painfull ( I hear an empathetic sigh from all those of you who I have worked with in the past ), and, as she is essentially a voluteer should I change the choreography or pursue the image at her cost.... well I know this will all be worked out to some extent by the 6th of MArch in the mean time I will keep you posted on how it's going...any answers on a post card.yours Virginia Farman