{"id":343,"date":"2021-03-14T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:57:32","slug":"3-0-cd-progress-log","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/dan399-sp21\/catherine-home\/3-0-cd-progress-log\/","title":{"rendered":"3.0 CD Progress Log &#8211; Sweeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3.14.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pi day finds myself and two of my dancers back in the studio following our feedback from the Friday showing. I&#8217;m excited about the process of deconstructing my existing choreography and have been listening to a lot of Steve Reich&#8217;s discography as inspiration. Using one of his sincopated quick tempo&#8217;d songs, we began experimenting with the &#8220;wishy-washy&#8221; phrase, exaggerating it, changing it&#8217;s rhythm, and disconnecting it from the regimented counting we&#8217;ve used previously.<\/p>\n<p>I was really excited by the results and think that it creates a much more interesting pallette for the &#8220;drone&#8221; sections of the dance.<\/p>\n<p>We also began editing some aspects of the &#8220;pinwheel&#8221; phrase to add some variation and interest to the even movements.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3.14.2021 Altered Whishy-Washy and Pinwheel.mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/523514836?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<p>After those sections had been modified, I spent the second hour working with Helen and Ella on a duet, largely improvised, using some of the freer flightier concepts in the piece. I&#8217;m interested in movement that speaks of momentum, off balance\/off kilter risk taking, huge arms and legs, turns and disorientation. It&#8217;s a little difficult to pull this from the dancers as they are reluctant to really push themselves to their limit<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m excited by the beginnings of this duet and what it might become in time. I&#8217;m encouraging that they use this type of movement to dance for each other, as if they&#8217;re trying to tell something to a loved one they haven&#8217;t been able to talk to in a long time. I&#8217;d like their relationship to be clear and intimate, joyful but still longing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3.14.2021 Helen_Ella Duet.MOV\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/523515436?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<p><strong>3.18.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The arc of the piece is slowly starting to solidify in my mind, but there&#8217;s still so much to do. I haven&#8217;t figured out transitions or an ending, and I know that those are the things that will really define the piece and pull it all together. I&#8217;m trying to tell myself that there&#8217;s plenty of time, but the calendar is really staring me down.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to start brainstorming ways for us all to meet in the same space together, it&#8217;s getting progressively more difficult to put things together when I can only have two dancers in the studio at a time. If the weather stays nice I may try using one of the school&#8217;s lawns&#8211;but the floorwork and the jumps in the piece will be hard without a good dance floor, I don&#8217;t want anyone getting injured. Will there be opportunities to start rehearsing in Hallie before tech? I desperately need to play with spacing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this week the focus was on altering our existing phrases and creating the new &#8220;sweeping&#8221; section which has less to do with household chores and more to do with flight and freedom. This section has been haunting me&#8211; the antithesis to everything else I&#8217;ve created, something I&#8217;ve been looking forward to. But I couldn&#8217;t set movement for the life of me. So after a lot of improvisation I ended up going into Thursday&#8217;s rehearsal and working with the dancers to create the phrase. I felt guilty for not being more prepared but I think the work I had done ahead of time allowed us to get at the heart of what I wanted this section to feel like, and we made some good progress. I&#8217;m excited by the section we came up with. (See video).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"318 Sweeping Section into Pinwheel\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/526148493?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<p>Unfortunately Thursday&#8217;s rehearsal we were missing three dancers, as they needed to attend a lecture for their composition class, so while I&#8217;ve created a lot of new material, only two of my dancers know it so far- there&#8217;s going to need to be a fair bit of catch up before Sunday. I plan on filming myself going through the phrases so that the missing dancers can do some learning on their own time before our next rehearsal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.14.2021 Pi day finds myself and two of my dancers back in the studio following our feedback from the Friday showing. 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