Attached is an excerpt from "Train of Thought", a short piece produced by AMDA's Dance Theatre Conservatory in New York City. "Train of Thought" is largely inspired by the 1 Train. It's inspired by the awkward glances between strangers, the crossing of legs, the thumbs typing furiously on smart phones. In a city of millions of people, somehow we could be led to sit in a subway car with ten, twenty, or thirty strangers- all of us traveling from point A to point B, all of our minds on a million different things...or possibly a million of the same things. This strange, complex ordeal led me to develop "Train of Thought". I wanted to explore how strangers could be joined in one confined space. I wanted to explore how strangers can have completely different thoughts, though sometimes...their thought processes might reflect one another. How often do you think it happens when we're thinking the same thing as the stranger sitting across from us? Maybe we both just fell in love. Maybe we both just thought of our fathers. You never know. It's a simple- yet strange -concept, & it was a treat for me to explore. The choreography employs a great deal of pedestrian movement, largely inspired by Pina Bausch's "Café Müller". My goal was to create a seemingly plain & boring landscape (black & gray costuming in a small blackbox theatre with plain black chairs) & invigorate it with eccentric, satirical movement.