{"id":188,"date":"2021-02-26T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:55:43","slug":"1-0-cd-progress-log","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/catherine-home\/1-0-cd-progress-log\/","title":{"rendered":"1.0 CD Progress Log &#8211; Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3.1.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week has proven really stressful and busy as my commitments ask for more and more of my time. I have booked studio space for Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons, and am looking forward to being in Berenson again. I&#8217;m learning that I depend on a mirror while choreographing to make sure I&#8217;m being clear with the shapes I&#8217;d like to make legible to the audience. It&#8217;s easy to get lost in movement in my room and then watch a recording back to find that it looks different from how it feels. Plus, being in Scott for ballet for the first time in over a year reminded me how much I adore marley flooring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.3.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the dance audition tonight I&#8217;ve spend most of my afternoon working on four eight counts of dance. It&#8217;s exhausting, realizing that two hours of work is only thirty seconds of dance. I&#8217;m starting to feel anxious about our showing on Friday, I&#8217;m not sure how much I&#8217;ll have to show despite the time I&#8217;ve spent trying to create.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect a lot of the issue is that I refuse to leave a movement alone after I&#8217;ve created it. I struggle with making rough drafts and would rather work and rework the same few moves until I&#8217;m happy with them then churn out material. But if there was ever a time to start churning, it&#8217;s now. I would like to focus myself on making material in bulk that can be refined later, allowing me to cherry pick my piece from a basin of choreography. What&#8217;s that saying about throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks? That.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new way to work and it&#8217;s something I need to aclimitize to fast in order to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>The snippet I worked on and taught in the audition is a phrase that began with the idea of a handshake and sort of morphed into something I&#8217;m calling my &#8220;haunted doll&#8221; phrase. I enjoy playing with these sharp creepy moments and looking directly at the audience. I&#8217;d love to expand this into a much larger section before Friday.<\/p>\n<p>(For thoughts on the audition process, see 1.5 CD Process Log)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3.3.2021 Haunted Doll Dance.MOV\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/519548035?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"493\" height=\"876\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.4.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent my evening at the studio, which was both exhilarating and mind numbingly tedious. I started by playing some of the music that I associate with last summer and all of the stress and anger it inspired, but quickly found that it was too distracting to compose to. I know these songs by heart and I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to stop singing and dancing with abandon. So in a weird ironic way, I had to stop dancing to get some dancing done. I&#8217;m finding I work best in silence despite my love of music and dance as partners.<\/p>\n<p>The section I&#8217;ll be sharing is an extension of the &#8220;haunted doll&#8221; section I taught for the audition, which I&#8217;d like to eventually modify and place on my dancers as a rippling canon with a lot of repetititon. The intitial movements of the arms especially kept resurfacing and might become something that reappears again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I also started bringing in ideas of touch, especially of arms and fingers, casual contact that&#8217;s now so rigorously avoided. I liked playing with self-intimacy while staring down my audience.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately I&#8217;m happy with the work I&#8217;m sharing this week, and excited to start sharing it with my dancers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3.4.2021 Extended Haunting.MOV\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/519771986?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.1.2021 This week has proven really stressful and busy as my commitments ask for more and more of my time. 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