- Start with either of these themes (or come up with your own)
- Human relationship: Parent/Child relationship (be specific, relate this to your relationship with a parent or parent figure.) or Authority relationship exploring power relationships.
- Nature relationship: Tree branches in relationship to shadows, sky and clouds.
- You will compose a brief study (aprox 30 seconds each) for 3 of the 4 modes of Representation: Resemble, Imitate, Replicate. For Reflexive create a short “delicious movement” composition, without intentional connection to your theme.
- Begin by brainstorming movement qualities of your theme using Laban’s 8 Effort Actions: Direct/Indirect; Sustained/Sudden; Strong/Light.
- Then brainstorm action words. Use the Word Cloud from Dance Maker App and/or generate your own. Dancemaker
- Use the Effort Actions and Action Words as your research base to create your composition. You may arrange each of the 4 representations in order of your choosing.
- Perform each Representation section with a brief pause between sections.
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Zoë—Essence of Hedgehog
I did the modes of representation in this order: Resemble, Replicate, Imitate, and then my random “Reflexive” movements. I was trying to capture the physicality of a hedgehog, followed by the relationships between its spikes and the rest of it, and then the fact that they’re cute and squishy but sharp and pointy at the same time. I liked filming it outside, but I had to find a surface that wouldn’t hurt my flamenco shoes, so that was a constraint on what I could do.
Joel Choi: Rain Rain Go Away
My theme was rain: the source of dreariness yet also my source of refreshing coolness after a sweaty dance rehearsal. The choreography was structured as follows: Resemble, Imitate, Replicate, and Delicious Movement for Reflexive. I focused on downward, percussive movements to represent the raindrops and the verticality of space during a rainfall. In the reflexive section, I got to explore some choreographic ideas I haven’t tried in a long time so that was a fun experience to revisit some moves I used to be fascinated with in my high school dance career.
Esther Hwang: Anger
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Nai’ya: TriANgle
The referent for my choreography study is the triangle. Triangles are strong and dependable. Three may be a crowd, but to me three’s family.
For Imitative I tried to find as many ways to make triangles with my body, simple. For resemblance i focused on threes, rigid/unaltering movements, and being stable. In replication I focus on strength and balance, crossing lines and corners, and symmetrical and asymmetrical poses. Finally, in Reflection I just played around with the elements I explored previously because I found that these moves were “delicious” to me in this time. I rearranged them and put them together in a sequence that looked nice, and here is the final product!
Obuchi: I Am the Blender
Here I resemble a blender:
Here I imitate a blender:
Here I replicate a blender:
Here I reflect on my journey of being a blender:
Noah: Anxiety
I wanted to portray something that is both abstract and personal to me so I chose anxiety. I have struggled on and off with anxiety and it took me a long time to realize when I start worrying excessively. First up is imitation (I worry a lot when I try to fall asleep and I tried to capture the movements I do). Second is resemblance where I show how small problems seem to magnify when I feel anxious. Third is a delicious movement sequence I made as I reflect on my experience of anxiety when in the end I realize that it is all just blown out of proportion and I need to just relax (I tried to capture the arc of an anxiety attack and the subsequent realization that is it overblown). The fourth video I tried to replicate how the pattern of thoughts during when I feel anxious and how my attention jumps around.
