Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Saint Louis Dance Theatre Guest Choreographer: St. Louis Dancescapes

So tell us a little bit about your preparations for creating this work with seeing this dance theater.

Did you have a really clear concept and idea of music and all of the things that it was going to be?

Totally.

So this summer, I kind of was able to get like a skeleton of it in a way.

I was doing the Hubbard Create Summer Program.

and had just played around.

And it was like what you see, the first section, the last section.

And it had also felt special to me in a way too.

So I was like, oh, there's much more here.

I want to dig into it and craft it, especially for the company in a way, because I use the same kind of games and tools to get us there.

So it feels like they're part of it as well.

And then I knew I wanted to kind of zoom in on certain sections, the two middle sections that I added.

So it's been nice to feel, a lot of times I step into rooms like, okay, let's see, but to have a clear idea.

So I feel like the pacing has been nice and then I could get into it deeper in a way, which is nice.

Tell us a little bit about those games.

What does that mean?

So it actually circles back to the piece I was talking about at Baryshnikov Arts.

I worked with a multidisciplinary visual artist in a way for a set.

And sometimes I was in the studio and I was like, oh, what are we going to do? And I'm like, oh, Ryan, let's play with this.

You know, we build, we take all the things, build a sculpture in a room.

I'm like, I can build a sculpture too.

Look at that.

And then we were kind of, even if I was here, you know how we trace the mic in a way, circles, the table, and kind of, kind of a crunchy girl.

What

does that mean? Like modern, like, you know,