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my movements and Matt would sort of translate them into sound. I liked that I was composing with my body and Matt was reading my movement and translating it into sound. It was quite opposite with dance and figure skating where you usually start with the music and then you translate it into movement.” They essentially combined dance, art, music, and performance art into their work. “That’s the cool thing, it starts to open up all these other pathways creatively,” said Runciman. “Especially for myself coming from a traditional songwriting background and playing music with other instruments. It can become pretty one dimensional quickly in terms of writing and how you write. After a while, I found myself more responding to the things that were happening immediately in front of me instead of an idea floating around my brain that might have been from an experience or watching people have a conversation. It Live Performance @ Menningarhús Tjarnarborg, Olafsfjordur NJ STAGE - ISSUE 59 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 10