Last night we taught our new cast members Dan and Benoit the choreography for “New England is Awful,” which opened the spring workshop of Old Paper Houses, and is based on Bernadette Mayer’s poem “Lookin’ Like Areas of Kansas.” We taught them to drink boilermakers and how to talk about each other, and of course, how “to go out and get cold.” Here, it looks like everybody just got off a spaceship, which is actually appropriate given how alien this perspective on New England can seem! In fact, in creating this choreography, we decided to treat Mayer’s poem as though we are aliens and only have her poem as our guide to New England.
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