Thanks so much for helping me name my dance company! I have a few guidelines:
1. No puns. Lord knows I love puns but I want to be taken seriously when it comes to my work
2. The name does not have to include the words "dance," "theater" "performance," "company," or my name. But you can if you want to.
3. I am ok with a name that is more like a "band name" than a dance or theater company name. It's a trend in countries other than the US and I'm not sure why it hasn't caught on here yet.
4. I would like the name to be relevant to my artistic mission:
Though my primary medium is dance, I refer to myself as an artist rather than a choreographer. As a choreographer, I work from a movement vocabulary based in my traditional Chinese dance background that expands upon contemporary modern technique. As an artist, I use dance to explore journeys of emotional transformation: from childhood to adulthood, from grief and denial to acceptance, from voyeurism to self-perception. My mission is to engage people of all levels of dance literacy by creating work that is visually stunning as well as artistically innovative. If a dance is easily forgotten, then the choreographer has lost all hope at transmitting the intended meaning. Through integrating projected media and character-driven narrative into my choreography, I infuse abstract movement with meaning. The end result is technologically augmented dance-theater.
Thanks so much! And good luck!
