Now that the piece is coming together, it seems harder to find time to write thoughts for the blog, because I am caught up in the doing of everything I'm reflecting about. So it was very helpful for Kate Flatt, the choreographic mentor with whom I'm fortunate to be working for this project, to come and talk to us last Friday.

At the end of 2 weeks of research at Choreodrome at The Place, and the beginning of a week off from rehearsals, I find myself mainly thinking about overall structure.

The last blog post was getting a bit long, but of course I still have more to say! Here are some more thoughts about my main challenges this week.

We've just completed the first of 5 rehearsal weeks beginning to develop our research from last year into an hour long piece called Matters of Life and Death.

We previewed Alexa's new curtain-raiser duet, Oxygen, at Déda in Derby on Friday 19th August. We will try to put some video highlights from this first performance on the blog soon, but in the mean time, here are a few words from Alexa about her experience of making the duet.