ABSTRACT
In the late 1980s, I was invited to recreate a stage work for broadcast on Alive from Off Center. The program, entitled “Dancing on the Edge,” featured three choreographers from the San Francisco Bay area: Margaret Jenkins, Joe Goode, and myself. It was a co-production of KTCA Minneapolis-St. Paul and KQED San Francisco. The producers had solicited videotapes from a number of Bay Area artists and had selected the three works they were most interested in seeing on their program. While all three of the artists’ works had been created for the stage, we were told that we must reconceive them for another location. Each work had to be shortened to approximately seven minutes. In addition, and most important, we were to be paired with a director of the producers’ choosing. For this project, we were to enter into an arranged marriage of sorts. For me, this marriage represented a challenging collision of cultures, gender stereotypes, and aesthetics.
