I can build a piece that leaves a whole theater in tears, and I know how to do it in my bones now. But I watch my best dancer, twenty-four and already talking about her knees, and I feel the clock on all of us. The work moves people for one season and then the bodies that carried it move on.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can choreograph work that deeply moves people, while grieving how short a dancer's body lasts.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.