"Watching You Without Me" was choreographed and performed in 1987 by my dear friend Sam Van Fleet. I was so smitten with this piece and the idea of a "merperson" that after 20 years of thinking about it I asked Sam if I might recreate it and change the character into a female. There is no video of the original piece, so I restaged the piece based on impressions, chats with Sam and lots of studio time. I asked myself what, exactly, does a mermaid do? How does she move? Slowly over the course of six months, Ondine took shape. Filmed at The Crown Hill Arts Festival, November, 2010.

Original choreography by Sam Van Fleet and Theresa Elliott. Performance by Theresa Elliott, 2010. Music by Kate Bush, "Watching You Without Me."