Some info research to back up ideas:
This idea of transition seems to be descriptive of ageing
and dying. I thought this idea could be useful in signifying our theme. I thought
we could represent this using materials, lighting and sounds etc….
Signs of dying
Transition of senses and physical ability into a higher
power of seeing.
Also thinking movement wise…the idea of transition and
piecing together what we’ve discussed. I LOVE the idea of having one limb not
really working like what Eloise suggested. This got me thinking and I know it’s
dated as sin but looking at Trisha Brown’s Accumulation for inspiration what if
we were to do an ‘accumulation in reverse’. So instead of adding and building
movement we take away? Perhaps showing the body slowly shutting down? So as we
were planning; still to mix the three dance vocabularies and styles with the music
so, like old 1940s foxtrot jive, hip hop, and contemporary. We start
frantically layered with movement in this queue and bit by bit we take away a
layer or “limb” if you will. Obviously it will be absolutely nothing like Trisha
brown’s accumulation but I thought this is useful to visualize what I’m trying
to say.
Imagine…..in a queue. We’re dancing in unison all facing in
front of us. Dancing this fluid original vocabulary we’ve created adding all
movements together continuous dancing and gradually dropping a limb’s movement
for example. The right arm is now by our sides and “dead” our movement
continues yet the arm stays motionless. And so on….I really would like to
experiment with this tomorrow guys. So are we all set on creating 4-8 counts
for each piece of music ready for tomorrow to experiment?
Cool Kelly, like the idea of a reverse accumlulation - also this touches on the idea of loosing the memory and this could be a chance to explore our 'characters' facial expression as well?
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Let's all remember to bring our jogging bottoms!