"My exposure to music and dance really came through that. There's also influences of theater, physical theater, and commedia dell'arte. My connection with ODC really started many, many years ago because Kimi [Okada, co-artistic director of ODC Dance] was my first tap teacher and did choreography for the Pickle Family Circus when I was a child."
"Principally, when I'm directing and choreographing, it's for acrobats. I really need to have an expansion of my mind and my thinking toward theater, movement, and music. I think very quickly with circus, but in any discipline, you can get into patterns, even though that's always been evolving for me. I need to put myself in uncomfortable situations in order to expand my way of thinking about how bodies move."
Gypsy Snider, a choreographer raised in the San Francisco circus community by parents involved with the Pickle Family Circus, co-created the cirque nouveau movement and 7 Fingers from Montreal. Her artistic background encompasses music, dance, theater, physical theater, and commedia dell'arte. Snider has been recruited by ODC/Dance artistic director Brenda Way to create Caught in the Act, premiering at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with ASL interpretation. Her approach to choreography transcends simply applying circus moves to dancers; both disciplines involve shaping movement. Snider emphasizes the importance of expanding her thinking beyond circus patterns by engaging with theater, movement, and music, deliberately placing herself in uncomfortable creative situations to evolve her understanding of how bodies move.
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