¡Colores!; 317; Opening Doors: The Buen Viaje Dancers

One, two, three, four, five. Join the Buen Viaje dancers for a good journey. Next on Colores. Three, four, around five. I just want to come out and be our friends. Instead of our enemies and say, he can't do that, no. And those are negatives. I've been through a lot of negatives. For experience. One. One.

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Oh! Oh! Okay. Wayne Via He means good journey in Spanish and it came about when the dancers took a trip

to Washington D.C. a number of years ago and it was a great journey so that's where the name came from. The good journey is what happens when friends get together. Wayne Via He is a good journey and it happens when we get together for rehearsals and when we get together for a performance or when we get together for a workshop. When we get a week-long tour through Towers, they were quiet, they didn't argue with each other, they were delightful roommates. Everything about the Towers tour, what do you think? Everything about that Towers tour wasn't perfect. It lost a crayon that was a big deal. It

was also the time when he fell asleep taking a bath and it was an hour later and we wanted to use the bath and ed. Come on out, what's going on in there. And it finally opened up the door and rooms all steamy and there he is. Snowy in the bathroom. But other than that, traveling with them is great. They're the best kind of friends I think one can have because they give pure love. I was really worried about when I first started with a company because I'm so used to being judged by dancers and people that have worked with and they don't even deal with that kind of issue at all. They just say, you are friends, we welcome you here and we're glad you're working with us. And let's go. But I think we have a good journey with our hearts that travels into an audience's heart as well. Stretch it forward. Should your arms up? Let me see this. Let me add. No, no, no. Should your arms up like

this and pull them back like that. Okay. You're thinking of another movement here. Ready to go. There you go. Pull your elbow back. Let me see your elbow. Yes. Yes. Okay. Here. Then stretch out. Make it safe. Okay. Pull yourself together. What's the last movement? Right. So you scoop your arms up like this. Okay. Right. Let me see that sequence from the corner. The neat things that work in rehearsal are when somebody is trying out a new move that they hadn't been directed to do. But they play with and they test and they experiment with each movement and a dance. And so Archie has this kind of movement that she might have in her dance. But in a rehearsal, she will play with it and she'll maybe do it this way instead. We go. We go. What do you do? We go. Bill Morris and his thing is he's

very strong on constantly coming up with some new movement. I say, well, Bill, why didn't you do it that way? We used to do it. That was really wonderful. And you'll say, well, Bill, Bob, I was trying something new. You know, I had to try something new today. And you can't knock them for that. You need to go the same way it goes. Then it's going to throw it on. No, it's just right. What's really beautiful with the C in them is their sense of concentration. When you see Ed do a movement, there's no BS surrounding it. It's not, look how beautiful I am and look how much I've trained myself and look how I'm a great star and you're now seeing this wonderful person doing this, saying, we're having a good time because this is the right thing to do. It's not that they dance like graceful ballerinas. They have a whole different kind of quality. Diana's twisted kinds of things are incredibly beautiful to watch. It's the idea that we then are limitations. We can take something and stretch it out and we can discover beauty within that. They are very aware of the space between each other and their space around them. You notice that Pedro, who uses a

lot of this kind of carving motion and he's very aware of this idea that this is very tangible stuff. Even if it's invisible, this space is what eventually connects us with one another. And we feel so good about these rehearsals. We just feel so good working together. When I first met Diana, Joni Carlyle had been the director and she had invited me to come in and she put me as a partner with Diana who doesn't move in the same way at all. Who doesn't talk very clearly at all. It's very difficult to understand what she's saying sometimes. So I was kind of nervous. But Diana with her eyes was so reassuring to me and so full of joy and happiness that we were partners together. And maybe that's the gift that this company has is that instead of using words which have to be reinterpreted

to use their bodies and use their eyes and use their hugs and it cuts through the crack. So what's your favorite dance? How come you like dancing? Dancing makes you feel pretty. Why are you always so happy? Happy. Yeah, happy. You always hope everybody feels so good. How can you do that? Why? Well, I just want to know so I can do the same thing.

Well, in our workshops, we don't really necessarily know what is going to happen, especially in high school groups. High school groups can often be very inhibited. But there's something amazing that happens with Wayne Diahe when these kids see that Wayne Diahe is not afraid to put themselves out and Wayne Diahe will do these kinds of things that also will look, you know, I can do that too. There are a couple of goals that we have doing workshops. One is just to introduce people from general populations to people with special populations to say and show and to experience that, hey, we're all on this together and we're all not so perfect. The general structure

we go on is it will start off different company members will lead the warm up and we may lead the warm up in terms of movement having people play follow the leader and it may be doing sound commands and from there on out, it could go in a number of directions. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's very nice.

Okay. You can stop that now. The shape game is delightful in that it requires people to touch each other. And it requires you to do it so fast that you don't have time to stop and think about it. And as soon as you touch someone, you made a connection. Beside it being an activity in which everyone is so mixed up and intertwined that we don't know where one person starts and where another person stops. How was that shape going to get there? Excellent. All right. And then find a new shape to it. You still got to get it. These guys love teaching. I think because teaching is about giving and these people are natural givers. And so they have this gift of dance. They know something that has made them feel good. They've had lives in which many things have gone wrong. They've seen how people can take advantage of them in different ways. And yet they have consistently this capacity to give and give again. And to forgive as well.

What about when you teach? What do you think about when you teach other people to dance? Somehow dance. How do you do that? I feel happy. I feel happy. Yeah. Are you happy? Yeah. Yeah. How did the dancing make you feel? We feel fine. We're strong and happy. Does anybody ever make fun of you when you dance? Nobody. So you feel good about yourself, huh? Yeah. I feel good about myself. I'm proud of you. Friend, what are you doing, friend? I have a good time. Do you talk about dance dance? What about the dancer thing after you? Oh, yeah. That's right. So how does your dance end?

Cool. It ends cool. What does everybody do? Everybody. Everybody gets back together. Yeah. Make everybody feel it's better. Oh, yeah. So you? Yes. So is it a happy ending or is that ending? Yes. No. Happy ending? Uh-huh. I should though. Yeah, you should do. You have to choreograph it. Feelings and emotions tend to inform most of our work. Because if anything that we're about or about people who feel, how we feel about our experiences out in the world, our experiences with each other, how we take care of each other, how we have been hurt, and how we have grown out of those experiences. There were things where when we reached out for someone, sometimes they didn't want to reach back, and that's what hurt us. Sometimes we wanted to be friends with someone, and they came back with a hurtful remark,

and its dance is like an instance of the sure that kind of feeling. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I know my first response when I was out of company was, these are the most beautiful movies. They have the most interesting kinds of qualities, but being concerned with, you know, the technicalities, and well, is this move being done right? Is that person going to the right place? is that person going to the right place, I sometimes forget the point of it all, and that is to share ourselves. I'd like to share our love, which sometimes it's hard to share. We are trying to bridge the gap between normal and abnormal people. It's just that it's society ready, or are they just being more afraid. I'd like to see them more open and more open instead of closed. I have not seen a performance yet where the audience wasn't really emotionally involved and emotionally moved. Sometimes you see it through tears. Sometimes it's just in the, you know, the warmth,

the change of understanding that you have about people, seeing that, oh, these are the kind of people that we used to lock up. This is the kind of people that we used to not talk about. This was the brother or sister that was in the back somewhere, but was never acknowledged. And now here these people are, and they're the most beautiful dancers. Wow. I think I better have a change of heart here, you know, maybe there is potential here. Maybe I do have a potential friend there. I prefer to give more than I prefer to receive. I just prefer that we give more and let them understand that we are giving them what they have not given us. But in a sense, we are giving each other a chance. But we want to share our hopes and our dreams with everyone else.

We just want to share them with each other. We're all looking through doors at some time in our life. But there are so many doors to choose from. Which one do we pick first? Behind one door, we might find friendship. Behind another door, we might find a light. Behind another door, we might find walls too thick to see through with.

Behind another door, we might find something so frightening and so terrible that we are afraid to face it. We all go through doors at some time in our lives.

We're all looking for answers, trying to find our way out. Does the answer out there or maybe within? It's a narrow path to follow, but if we believe in ourselves and trust ourselves, if we help take care of one another and help feed and nurture and nourish one another, our love will grow strong, what others may fall, and our love will grow like a flower, like

a garden, like a cloud, like a tree. We're all looking for answers, we're all looking for answers, we're all looking for answers, we're all looking for answers, we're all looking for answers, we're all looking for answers,

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