Weekends on All Things Considered continues its “Why Music Matters” series with stories of music fans, told in their own words. Today’s story is about Amy O’Neal, a choreographer who took on the challenge of dancing in complete silence.
“I had to do a performance a couple years ago where I couldn’t use any music,” O’Neal says. “I had 15 minutes without sound. I felt like, OK, well, I need to have some kind of circumstances to deal with — so I asked people to bring me different outfits to wear. I would end up changing out there and sort of embodying whatever outfit it was that they had brought in.”
O’Neal says that although she liked the idea at first, seeing video of her performance was a rude awakening.
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