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Choreographing To Get The Obsessions Out Of His Head: Reggie Wilson

DANCE Posted: September 5, 2018 6:33 am

“An idea hits me and I think, Oh, that’s cool. I usually don’t follow it when it first happens. And then it will recur and recur, over and over again. It gets to the point of obsession. Making a dance will help me process it, think about it on multiple levels … Then I have to ‘get rid of it,’ which means incorporating it into my everyday existence. Then it stops being disruptive.”

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