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By Hayley Cutler<\/em><\/p>\n

A little background on darlingdance company: I founded darlingdance<\/a> in 2010 after returning to DC from grad school at the Laban Conservatoire in London. I have always known I wanted to be a choreographer, and starting this company was the realization of every decision I\u2019ve ever made, and everything I\u2019ve sacrificed and worked toward my entire life. It\u2019s my baby, and I deeply cherish everyone who has had even the slightest part in making this company come to be.<\/p>\n

The past two years have been the hardest and most rewarding years of my life. Every time I get into the studio with my dancers to begin a new work, two completely competing emotions overwhelm me \u2013 1) pure joy and peace and bliss that this is my life and I get to make art and do what I love and people actually come see it and, OMG, sometimes they like it<\/em>, and 2) complete and utter immobilizing fear that I am going to majorly *#$% it up. And here is where \u201cAnd Every Year is Zero\u201d comes in.<\/p>\n

This piece, a duet originally set on the dashing Rick Westerkamp and the beautiful, oh-so-quirky Felicia Stevens (now performed by Stevens and the incredibly talented Briana Carper), is the first piece I\u2019ve made where I\u2019ve thrown the cautions of Totally Overthought Emotion #1 and Totally Overthought Emotion #2 (see above cheesy paragraph) to the wind. Previous works have been so carefully calculated, and the processes have been so guarded, so as to ensure that I\u2019m presenting exactly what I believe<\/em> my aesthetic to be and what I believe<\/em> people have come to expect of my work. I describe my aesthetic typically as postmodern, abstract, mathematical, and, most importantly, driven by spatial arrangements and shapes, not<\/em> emotion or narrative.<\/p>\n

At the point where I was ready to begin \u201cAnd Every Year,\u201d however, my life was disgustingly filled with emotions \u2013 the love kind. I was missing a boy, and honestly, I just needed to get it all out. So I decided not to worry about reviews, or consistency in my aesthetic or how darlingdance could all come crashing down at my feet and I\u2019d be a secretary for the rest of my life (ain\u2019t no shame), and I just Made. The. Darn. Piece. And \u2013 even more terrifying \u2013 I presented it to actual human audiences this past summer completely unfinished<\/em> (with an accidental music choice and long chunks of silence). And it turns out that unfinished it shall remain, because I\u2019ve come to love this piece so much that while I continue to claim it\u2019s a work-in-progress, I don\u2019t really know that I could mess with something that has surprisingly been such a personal experience for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Every Year is Zero\u201d is a reminder that sometimes when we miss things (things = ex-boyfriends), we miss them through rose-colored glasses. We push that time he made you cry on your birthday aside and remember the time he brought you your favorite flowers when you were vomiting on everything, and think we\u2019ll never find anything so blissfully (and BS-fully) perfect again.<\/p>\n

\u2026and this is probably the only time in the history of my hopefully-million-year-long career as a choreographer that I\u2019ll ever \u2018fess up to what my work is \u201cabout.\u201d So you should probably print this out and save it, Mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Every Year Zero\u201d will be performed by darlingdance company at Joy of Motion Dance Center\u2019s annual Dance Project.\u00a0Dance Project takes place Saturday, December 1st, 8:30 p.m. at The Jack Guidone Theater. Tickets start at $12.
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