A few notes about this piece. Chimeras began as six individual poems. I free wrote them all from various nightmares and daydreams over approximately a week. The voices in these pieces were haunting and insistant and the poems ended up cut into tiny scraps and scrambled all over my floor. The music was in the pace and combination of the lines and I began to see a story and a sort of continuous unstructured dance which focused around this energy. At about four that morning I had the scraps in functioning order and the result became the third scene of Chimeras and the model for the rest of the piece.

When the play and most of the choreography was finished, I petitioned my college to direct it and began ripping through a lovely forest of red tape. After about six months of ridiculous legwork I kissed the sleeping princess and finally scheduled auditions. Much thanks to Allsion Campbell for finally acquiescing, Talmadge Hall for letting us perform when we were denied mainstage, Hollins Infirmary for the tetnus shot I needed when the wooden secondary stage sent a three inch splinter into my foot, and Tisch school of the arts for accepting me summer term so I could graduate.

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