{"id":301,"date":"2021-03-14T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/?page_id=301"},"modified":"2021-05-13T00:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T04:23:55","slug":"2-0-mp-process-log","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/may-home\/2-0-mp-process-log\/","title":{"rendered":"2.0 MP Process Log: Merengue y Clave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working on:<\/b> Section 2 – Merengue Improv<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In this section, I am letting everything in my narrative come to life. I dance to a Merengue song and let my body do the talking. I think there is a natural progression from the first section to this one. I know that it may seem obvious but I\u2019m not afraid to lean into that direct line of \u201chere is where the moves come from\u201d to \u201cthis is how it shows up\u201d. I also like to think of this as those intimate times where I do play a song and lose it in my own room. It\u2019s hard to do this in front of people because I don\u2019t feel self-conscious about any of it when it\u2019s just me, but suddenly when having to show others under bright lights I can get in my head about the movement that is happening. Like I mentioned in the narrative, this is what I\u2019ve learned to call \u2018vulgar\u2019, \u2018too sexual\u2019, \u2018ungodly\u2019, and so to put myself in a place in which people can see me in that space terrifies me a bit. I know better now than to keep seeing it as vulgar and one-dimensional, but that doesn\u2019t stop my body from reacting as if it is when in front of a camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With this section, I would also like it to be as developed and rich as any other section in the dance. This section holds a lot of values like duration, stamina, musicality, ancestry, shame, pride, and complexity. But physically,\u00a0 I don\u2019t want it to read simply as that one section where she is dancing Merengue for 4 minutes. Even if the audience were to see it that way I want something to challenge me movement wise each time I do it, I want to grow and learn something new in this section. After talking to a mentor we came up with some ways that can keep this section living and breathing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n