I chose this picture for many different reasons. I like that it is a bald man because it makes the picture more about the body and the shape the man is making instead of implying a specific style or identity. Hair can be so definitive of a person and this man is a blank slate which is very relatable. I relate very much to the position of his arms. One extended reaching diagonally down and the other one curled around it as if restraining it from really expanding. This represents the conflicts I feel within myself. I want to move freely but am cautiously bound to my control.

Within my first choreographic study there are positions that are bound and held which is "like me" and there are shapes and movements that are visited that are more free and indirect which would be "not like me." ....although I hope that this not like me movement becomes part of my natural and authentic vocabulary.