I Just Like This Music (2012)

Premiere: Live Art Dance with Scotia Festival of Music

Choreographer: Rebecca Lazier in Collaboration with Performers
Music: Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings in C Major
Music Performance: Conducted by Bernhard Gueller and musicians from the Scotia Festival of Music
Performers: Asli Bulbul, Jennifer Lafferty, Christopher Williams, Paul Singh, Rashaun Mitchell
Costume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca 
Lighting Designer: Aaron Copp
Duration: 30 minutes

Performed: American Embassy sponsored tour to Turkey, collaboration with TORK dance and Açik Dans Stüdyosu touring program to Akdeniz University State Conservatory, Hacettepe University State Conservatory, Eskisehir Anadolu University, Yildiz Technical University, Mimar Sinan Conservatory, Çiplak Ayaklar Kumpany, Istanbul, 2012

I Just Like This Music builds from the intimate to the grandiose, from a rehearsal to a performance. It is a response both to Tchaikovsky's score, Serenade for Strings in C Major, and to the choreography of the same name by George Balanchine. Lazier considers both works as artifacts, existing within their historical context and torn out of that context they provide a backdrop of expectations and set of ideals to question. The New York Times hailed it as “full of cool sensuality.” It builds a theatrical space while questioning the fabric of beauty.