++One thing that jumps out at me is the idea of synchronization, or the related idea of complimentary motion. This is an easy way to introduce something that can be made difficult without being physically dangerous, and it is easy to see for the uninvolved when there is a failure.
++I had the idea of a sort of solo piece, based on Merce Cunningham's piece Tango, at least, a misinterpretation of it. For, he looks at and is 'reacting' to a tv... of course, he's not actually tangoing... but I like the idea of creating a 'being' of some sort on screen or in video that an actual dancer is improvising with, and has to respond to... I think it would be much more interesting than having the video disjunct, as a background.
Also, one could speed up of the 'video character' etc. and make the virtual person do things that a real person could not and therefore create problems for the embodied person... I'm not so comfortable with the focus possibly being on the dichotomy b/tw artifical, human, machine, though... which I'm afraid would be a side effect of the whole process.
Maybe instead of a construct, there can be dancers in real time, that are hidden from view, and can only see their partners via video. The audience can see everything. The video introduces latency (perhaps designed to) and other problems that arise when you are trying to synch (compliment) someone that isn't actually there. This is sort of the dance equivalent to Chris Mann's piece, in a way.
++I had an idea for a larger piece, where everyone is partnered up into partnered dances, let's say a tango (but not in an embrace... this is important) BUT the thing partners are not mutual partners. The person you are following, is following someone else and watching them, etc., and there is... no leader? But perhaps there is... and you see the motions that the leader performs rippling out with greater or lesser degrees of success... this would be like movement telephone I suppose. At the end of the chain, the first person to follow the leader would have to NOT be the whom the leader was trying to lead.
Problem would be who would be facing who, etc... so maybe not tango as the system, but it would be interesting if I could think of a way. Maybe people arranged in a circle? Maybe not a circle but displaced from one another in strategic ways. Perhaps the followers always feeling the connection is being broken, would start to act as if the leader is telling them to do particular things like go to the cross, or move around in a circle... well, it would probably have to be experimented with until there was no chaos.
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