Kathy Dunn Hamrick

The KDH Dance Company…collects beautiful dancers, who unfurl their limbs with elegance and breath.” Austin American-Statesman

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I just got the phone call you don't want to get from a dancer 4 days before a show: I broke my foot.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

Backstage shenanigans.

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The undoing of nonet has begun. Just had a dancer quit on me. That's a first.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

Dance Observation #4: Great dancing is greatly appreciated.

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Dance Observation #3: Unless it is absolutely critical to getting your point across, no more running in circles.

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Dance Observation #2: Adults acting like children. Keep trying if you want, but I've never seen it work.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

Dance Observation #1: We know when you are filling time, trying to get to the end of the music. Get back in the studio or get new music.

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In the studio, I'm building my new dance forward, but in my creative thinking time, I'm working backwards.

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Just finished watching all the video footage from today's rehearsal. Happy.

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These dancers are so good, and they are making me work so fast. My brain can't keep up.

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Problem solved: mannequin.

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Just got word that one of my dancers is too sick to attend rehearsal. I have 30 minutes to figure out how to build a trio with 2 people.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

I'm always nervous about working with new dancers, but Jessica and Janna blew me away during our first rehearsal weekend.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

Making a new work fosters a combination of fear and excitement in me.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

Our fall season commences tomorrow with a company meeting, contract signings and contact improv. Finally.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

As to other recent events, my mantra is high road. Take the high road. Always. The high road.

[Kathy Dunn Hamrick @KDHDance]

I've spent hours, days, weeks on this final report for the city, and I just can't seem to get 'er done.

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Let's start rehearsals already!

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And Jessica makes the nonet.

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Congrats to Janna, newest member of KDH Dance. Just signed her today.