The following songs have been chosen from FreePlay and may not be used:
Religious Freedom
Lake of Freedom
Passage to Freedom
Bolt to Freedom
Freedom of a Man
Down and Out
Free Flying
TD, JB and CK still need to report selections.
Friday, 28 February 2014
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Icarus Also
Oh, and your homework for our next choreo day is to have Imprisoned and Freedom created and connected.
Icarus Day 7
Ok, so I was off in putting the title on the last entry!
Based on our discussion today, remember that you can choose any piece of music from Freeplay that is 60 seconds long....it does not have to have the word "Freedom" in the title.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PIECE OF MUSIC, PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY TOMORROW. Sorry to yell, but I wanted to be sure you saw that! Tracks are first come, first serve.
In response to your questions today:
Your new task is to connect Imprisoned and Freedom together. I am working on posting the music for you in the edited form.
Please remember that you will be choreographing Doomed Flight at the end of Freedom. Everyone will use the same music for that one as well.
Based on our discussion today, remember that you can choose any piece of music from Freeplay that is 60 seconds long....it does not have to have the word "Freedom" in the title.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PIECE OF MUSIC, PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY TOMORROW. Sorry to yell, but I wanted to be sure you saw that! Tracks are first come, first serve.
In response to your questions today:
- The 16 count phrase that you are working on is part of your Freedom section
- The phrase may begin where your Imprisoned phrase left off, or it may stand alone at this point
- If you have finished the 16 count choreography task, you should go on
- Our goal is to choreograph 60 seconds of Freedom
- Every dancer will use the same Imprisoned music, followed by individual Freedom selections
Your new task is to connect Imprisoned and Freedom together. I am working on posting the music for you in the edited form.
Please remember that you will be choreographing Doomed Flight at the end of Freedom. Everyone will use the same music for that one as well.
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Icarus Project Day 5
Hi Everyone;
We worked on our centre barre work and some combinations across the floor today as a warm up. These are our source material for the "Freedom" section of the dance.
As a starting point, choreograph a 16-count phrase using our jump combination as a floor pattern. Use space in the same way for your choreography - think about the tracks on the floor as well as the levels.
ALSO - check out http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.aspx
Your task is to find a track of music to accompany your "Freedom" section. Please search for pieces with "Tack cut downs" as your music must not be more than 60 seconds long.
The title of your track is due on Thursday. No two students may choose the same track. First come, first served!
We worked on our centre barre work and some combinations across the floor today as a warm up. These are our source material for the "Freedom" section of the dance.
As a starting point, choreograph a 16-count phrase using our jump combination as a floor pattern. Use space in the same way for your choreography - think about the tracks on the floor as well as the levels.
ALSO - check out http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.aspx
Your task is to find a track of music to accompany your "Freedom" section. Please search for pieces with "Tack cut downs" as your music must not be more than 60 seconds long.
The title of your track is due on Thursday. No two students may choose the same track. First come, first served!
Friday, 14 February 2014
Icarus Choreography Project Day 4
Sharing day!
Great job to everyone who shared the choreography they refined. Here are some things that we, as a group, felt were effective at communicating the "Imprisoned" theme:
ASSIGNMENT - write your choreography for "Imprisoned" as a narrative.
Example: I am sitting in a bathtub full of cold water and colored bubbles, shivering. I reach out and take the soap with my left hand, and look at it suspiciously. I furiously scrub at my arms, then my feet, then my face. I am trying to get the blood off. I stand up to see my face in the mirror, and walk closer to see if my face is clean. I run my hands down my face, trying to wipe away the tears.
Be descriptive, and include every action and gesture as part of the story.
I will be working on editing the music for this section and posting it to the blog for you. Keep your eyes open, or, better yet, sign up for email notifications that I have updated.
Have a great long weekend!
Great job to everyone who shared the choreography they refined. Here are some things that we, as a group, felt were effective at communicating the "Imprisoned" theme:
- contrast in dynamics - slow and quick, strong and weak
- contrast in size and levels, especially combined with tempo
- contractions
- walks on the side
- breaking down steps into parts
- use repetition
- personalize your movements by adding unique details
- think about what you are doing in the story
- don't use "big chunks" of choreography from the class material - break it down
ASSIGNMENT - write your choreography for "Imprisoned" as a narrative.
Example: I am sitting in a bathtub full of cold water and colored bubbles, shivering. I reach out and take the soap with my left hand, and look at it suspiciously. I furiously scrub at my arms, then my feet, then my face. I am trying to get the blood off. I stand up to see my face in the mirror, and walk closer to see if my face is clean. I run my hands down my face, trying to wipe away the tears.
Be descriptive, and include every action and gesture as part of the story.
I will be working on editing the music for this section and posting it to the blog for you. Keep your eyes open, or, better yet, sign up for email notifications that I have updated.
Have a great long weekend!
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Icarus Choreography Project Day 3
A big review day for everyone. Isn't muscle memory amazing.
We began today by warming up with our Graham-style class materials. Today we covered:
You will be drawing your movement material from these exercises. You can use any part of any choreography for these, but you may not use recognizable sections. Also, you may change, interpret or add to the movements to more fully communicate the feeling of being imprisoned.
Take some time to brainstorm Actions, Dynamics, use of Space and Relationship in these exercises, and how they will link to the idea of being imprisoned. Write your ideas on a star/cloud sheet.
Wait....how can we have Relationship in a solo?
Think about what is going on for Icarus as he is imprisoned. What does he imagine freedom will be like? How does he physically feel being locked in a tower? What does he remember from his past? What does he wish for?
As human beings we have relationships with the world around us, but we also have relationships with ourselves and our experiences. What ADSR can we use to show what we think he feels?
Your assignment in class - create at least 30 seconds of choreography for the "Imprisoned" section of your solo.
WAIT....I don't know how to start and I am panicking!!!!
Here are two choreography prompts that you may use to begin your "Imprisoned" dance
HOMEWORK - Refine the choreography you created today, solidifying the movements and adding detail and creativity. We will be sharing the refined work with each other.
We began today by warming up with our Graham-style class materials. Today we covered:
- Warm Up "Butterflies"
- Bounces and Circles
- Contractions
- Seated Spirals
- Floor Exercise
You will be drawing your movement material from these exercises. You can use any part of any choreography for these, but you may not use recognizable sections. Also, you may change, interpret or add to the movements to more fully communicate the feeling of being imprisoned.
Take some time to brainstorm Actions, Dynamics, use of Space and Relationship in these exercises, and how they will link to the idea of being imprisoned. Write your ideas on a star/cloud sheet.
Wait....how can we have Relationship in a solo?
Think about what is going on for Icarus as he is imprisoned. What does he imagine freedom will be like? How does he physically feel being locked in a tower? What does he remember from his past? What does he wish for?
As human beings we have relationships with the world around us, but we also have relationships with ourselves and our experiences. What ADSR can we use to show what we think he feels?
Your assignment in class - create at least 30 seconds of choreography for the "Imprisoned" section of your solo.
WAIT....I don't know how to start and I am panicking!!!!
Here are two choreography prompts that you may use to begin your "Imprisoned" dance
- Begin standing tall, strong and defiant facing the audience. Contract, turn and sit suddenly. Kneel tall on knees, contract and fall.
- Crouch small and scared. Reach out to a spiral lunge nervously, tentatively and trembling. Fully stretch, then crumble to a ball. Look up, reach up.
HOMEWORK - Refine the choreography you created today, solidifying the movements and adding detail and creativity. We will be sharing the refined work with each other.
Music for "Imprisoned"
Icarus Choreography Project - Day 2
A big improv day.
Imagine you are trapped in a very small space.
Reach out to feel the space around you.
What shape is it? What do the walls feel like? How high is the ceiling?
It's dark where you are.
There might be something in there with you.
How can you use different parts of your body to explore the space?
Find a way to get out of your trapped place.
Walk the halls around you.
It is still dark.
Your feet crunch as you walk....what is on the floor?
Maybe it's gravel.
Maybe you're hearing the scurrying of spiders and their bodies being crushed under your feet.
Maybe it's the bones of those who perished before you.
You can hear someone or something behind you.
Hurry.
Stop - are they still there?
Hurry faster.
Stop - which way should you go?
Flee as fast as you can.
Stop - a hand has grabbed you, and you are trapped, frozen with fear.
Experiment with telling a story through movement. Here is the music we used for this improvised experience.
Imagine you are trapped in a very small space.
Reach out to feel the space around you.
What shape is it? What do the walls feel like? How high is the ceiling?
It's dark where you are.
There might be something in there with you.
How can you use different parts of your body to explore the space?
Find a way to get out of your trapped place.
Walk the halls around you.
It is still dark.
Your feet crunch as you walk....what is on the floor?
Maybe it's gravel.
Maybe you're hearing the scurrying of spiders and their bodies being crushed under your feet.
Maybe it's the bones of those who perished before you.
You can hear someone or something behind you.
Hurry.
Stop - are they still there?
Hurry faster.
Stop - which way should you go?
Flee as fast as you can.
Stop - a hand has grabbed you, and you are trapped, frozen with fear.
Experiment with telling a story through movement. Here is the music we used for this improvised experience.
Icarus Choreography Project Day 1
Hi DMB's. Long time, no blog!
I'm creating a resource for you to find all the materials you need to work on your solo choreography project. We'll be spending some time in class working on these projects, but you never know when inspiration will strike, so I'm setting this up so you can have maximum success.
First, the woman who inspired it all, and the beginning of our story - Ariadne and the Minotaur in Martha Graham's "Errand into the Maze"
We brainstormed a list of words to describe the picture of the Labyrinth. You came up with:
corners walls unknown
end maze scared
misleading grey forever
antagonizing intriguing mind games
intense unchanging impossible
devious repetitive hopeless
unending suffocating frustration
fear tall anxious
dull bleak curious
shadows square dark
lifetime sharp trapped
lost alone mysterious
overwhelming distance confused
Choose four words to describe what you see in the video. Be sure you have one word for Action, Dynamic, Space and Relationship. Connect your word to what you see in the video by DESCRIBING what you see and ANALYZING or INTERPRETING what you described.
I'm creating a resource for you to find all the materials you need to work on your solo choreography project. We'll be spending some time in class working on these projects, but you never know when inspiration will strike, so I'm setting this up so you can have maximum success.
First, the woman who inspired it all, and the beginning of our story - Ariadne and the Minotaur in Martha Graham's "Errand into the Maze"
We brainstormed a list of words to describe the picture of the Labyrinth. You came up with:
corners walls unknown
end maze scared
misleading grey forever
antagonizing intriguing mind games
intense unchanging impossible
devious repetitive hopeless
unending suffocating frustration
fear tall anxious
dull bleak curious
shadows square dark
lifetime sharp trapped
lost alone mysterious
overwhelming distance confused
Choose four words to describe what you see in the video. Be sure you have one word for Action, Dynamic, Space and Relationship. Connect your word to what you see in the video by DESCRIBING what you see and ANALYZING or INTERPRETING what you described.
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