The essence of the song for us was a sense of impermanence and nostalgia. We chose to approach our choreography without a literal interpretation of the lyrics, so after listening to the song many times, we put it aside. We performed the dance and edited the video without the music, and then added it back in at the end of the creative process.
We got this idea of a relationship through time and the idea of leaving. We decided to film different passages back and forth through the frame with various meetings and fadings in and out characters representing impermanence. It seemed like there was an autumn feeling to the song, which is why we used sepia tone. We used the appearing and disappearing characters to explore the duality of identity acknowledging that we’re not always just one personality or emotion or entity and that we are complex and can have many feelings at the same time. For example, the sentiment “should I stay or should I go?” Our passage through the frames could be a metaphor for different memories or dreams or projections or thoughts or fantasy. At the end, at the table, there is finally a sense of place and a rustic elegant sensibility to it but then even that is impermanent and disappears around us.