How can you create a meaningful dance using the tools and concepts of choreography
Word Wall: Elements of Dance, Intention, Motivation, Clarity, Phrase, Structure, Form
Choreography ProjectElements of Dance
Shape/ Space
Time/ Force
Energy/ Flow
These elements are not separate from one another, rather all work together to
create movement
Essentials Know what your intention is and then say it with
clarity and simplicity Intention: What you want to say Motivation: Why you want to say it Clarity: precise content clear and clean
Try it: Put your arm out. Gather something and bring it in. Try it with different intentions: evil, caring, sneaking, tenderness, teasing, hoarding, loving destroying, saving
Essentials Every movement in your dance must serve
that dance and that dance only. All the movements should validate and help fulfill your intention
Essentials
Choose a adjective that describes you. Example: powerful, sparkling, mysterious, shy, loving, etc. Write your adjective down on a piece of paper Create a phrase that spells you adjective and shows your
adjective by using the intention of the word. We should be able to see your word in the phrase and in the
intension Make your phrase interesting, use levels, shapes, technique,
choreographic tools, spacing, think about what the audience is seeing
There is no right or wrong. Just try and trust yourself.
Essentials Movement Study: Gather, throw, push,
release, turn, elevate, run, sink use the given works in the given order to create a movement study. Now choose an intention, write it down. Perform your study for the class. Let see how many different studies we can make as a class only using different intentions. Can you guess your classmates intention?
Theme Is that which all else clusters around Our theme is ___________ Movement ideas?
Essentials Simplicity: Strive for a lean, elegant
statement. Know what your intention is…then say if
with clarity, and simplicity.
Speaking Body Walk in pairs across the floor. Dancer A has to
option of stopping Dancer B matches their partner/ which/ now try with both dancers having the option of stopping.
Mirror dance A is the dancer B is the mirror /change/ now try it as a movement conversation
Press your right hand to right hand and travel threw the space, use levels facings, and different direction.
Try it Walk in pairs across the floor. Mirrors Hand to Hand What a glorious, subtle instrument
choreographers have to work with. Yes, a dancers instrument is her body---but the choreographer's added concern is in how many ways can this body be moved, be shaped, speak, so as to produce the desired effect?
Phrases The Basic Structure A phrase is to a dance as a sentence is to a
book Single Phrases are grouped together into
larger phrases then built into longer sequences, and formed into sections
Impulse tilt Deep breathing has a strong sense of
beginning, middle, and end
Word scatter Write down 8 description words Powerful, mysterious, sparkling, mushy, colossal, zealous,
thundering, narrow Write down 8 verbs Plie, pirouette, run, slide, leap, balance, chain, twist Write down 8 adverbs Carefully, abnormally, deliberately, helplessly, smoothly,
unnaturally, yieldingly, zestily Scatter your 8 adverbs and verbs on a piece of paper
example: tightly pirouette Choose your intension or adjective to apply to the movement
example: powerful
Forming Beginning, Middle, End Idea of Climax ABA or ABC or ETC Theme and Variation Organic Form life within nature. In dance, it may
be helpful to think in terms of the movement within the stillness, the potential within the potential
87 Transitions take you from phrase to phrase they
shouldn’t be forced
Forming Sequencing or organization of a dance Choreographic devices are ways of
developing nuggets of movement, there by enriching and extending an initial movement in order to build a greater body of choreographic material
Compositional structures are frame work or structures for a dance
Abstraction and Imagery You are a mother with a child. Find ways to hold, rock, feed,
play with, support, love your child. Involve the images in movement. Explore different ways of opening up the image (rock the child on the back of your legs). Use fantasy or surreal “child” surrogates and situations ( the child as a floating balloon, or twice the size of the mother, or shapes giving birth to other shapes0…Now you are played with, supported rocked, fed, snuggled….
Create two phrase 1Mother and child image easily recognizable 2movement takes over an becomes abstract ( a solo of being
rocked, variations on holding and playing)
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