24th September 2014
Hey
So I had my fourth lesson this week, and we focused more on
our own stimulus, though we did start out with our warm up, which is getting
easier each week because it keeps being refreshed in my head. The dance routine
we are learning is getting longer and it’s getting harder to remember it all
but I feel I can keep up with the speed if only I can remember and when we are
in pairs and going through it, I go slower and that helps, but I don’t have enough
time to practice speeding up. So I could ask my teacher when we are going
though it if I could film it so I can practice at home.
When looking
and exploring my stimulus I found I hit a wall so I discuss my ideas with my
dance teacher which I found was very helpful and I could start getting ideas
again.
When my
teacher and I were talking, she was telling me not just to look at the picture
but look at the feel and shape of a library, about how the book shelves are in parallel
rows so I could use that to travel around the spaces, for example moving up and
down the rows like you would in a library. We also looked at my picture and saw the different colours they
used and thought about how there was some of the people the same colour so I could
uses the colours as different sections. She suggested I could do three
movements and have a long transition on each. She also said that having a book as
a prop maybe be bad because I may start to focus on the book instead of my stimuli.
I found it
helpful to talk to Laura, my teacher , because it help me refocus and I came up with some good ideas over the next few
of days. I wasn't so worried and that mean I could come up with some more
ideas.
I could
follow on with this action like the person is trying to find a book. I could
use opposite dynamic movement from starting off fast and sharp which can help imply
that I know what book I’m looking for but I may not be in the right section and
finishing with slow and soft to imply that I’m in the right section and about
to find the book I’ve been looking for. So
I’m thinking about using levels as well to find the right book title in book
shelves.
I saw this
one and I consider that I could end with this and add more height to it but
jumping up in the air like I had won something because sometimes that’s what
happens when you find the right book
you jump for joy. End with something like holding the book close
to my chest or imaging walking out of the library.
At the end
of the lesson we looked at motif development, which is used to advance your
dance by using these techniques:
- · Repetition - An act of doing something again
- · Inversion - a reversing of the order, arrangement, or position of something
- · rhythmical modifications - with a regularly recurring pattern or beat
- · Amplification -the act or process of making something larger, greater, or stronger
- · Minimization - to play down the extent or seriousness of something
- · Ornamentation - the addition of decoration that enhances beauty or visual appeal, especially in the arts
- · Deconstruction – breaking something down
And remember keep dancing
Jenny
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