Ambler has been heavily involved in Decade, trying to find a physical language to catalyse the words.
Since 1976, when she founded Bond Street Theater in New York, her troupe has traveled through Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, seeking what she calls a "universal physical language" to amuse and enlighten.
The scholar Donald Richie, who wrote about Ms. Yamada in his book "Japanese Portraits" (2006), described her as a peerless technician who mastered the art of the kata, the intricate physical language specific to classical Japanese dance and theater.
"Our motion director came up with a physical language for how to cast spells, and a verbal one what needs to be said, and what it means," Jones says.
"Our motion director came up with a physical language for how to cast spells, and a verbal one – what needs to be said, and what it means," Jones says "They really got into the minutiae of how a magic system would work.
"The physical language Ping brings to this piece adds clarity and sharpness," said Michael Rohd, 36, a co-writer of the script, who plays both Edmund Dene Morel, a daring whistleblower, and Marlow, Conrad's narrator.
Interestingly, the international branch of the Joint Commission does consider accessibility as an important aspect of health care, as demonstrated for example by the standard stating that "the organization seeks to reduce physical, language, cultural, and other barriers to access and delivery of services" (p.42 [ 28]).
When we make contemporary dance choreography we are not working from any set vocabulary of language that already exists; we are searching for a new physical language that is specific to what we are trying to say, which is specific to every moment of every piece of work we make.
I think I was lucky to meet Complicite, which had such a vivid physical language – it was a joy to apply myself to that.
I tried to join in, but it was immediately clear that this was a physical language I was never going to grasp.
It is a dance for flyaway limbs, communicating despair and fear in a physical language that does live up to the company's description of the production as "neo-classical".
