what did you learn?
we were working on creating a dance based on playground games.This dance was inspired by the footnote dance performance IYKYK an the black Grace performance “method”that were created around the idea of games,video games and playground games.
what was the purpose of the learning?
the purpose of the learning was to create a contemporary dance and go through the choreography process in a setting
what was the process of creating this dance?
First we brainstormed a list of idea’s of different playground games that we have played in our childhood.for example leap frog,duck duck goose etc.
then we in small groups and pairs we created dance sequence that was sixteen counts long. We then order each group’s sequence into a larger dance sequence and this formed our beginning section which we called our our “A” section.
we then looked at our “B” section which we were tasked with taking two traveling movements or figuring out how to travel our two movements. We had to create an eight count traveling sequence that would move across the diagonal of the room; from one corner to other.
finally we performed the “A” section again but changed the direction to have it all facing the front and we repeated the “A” section but took out the hopscotch section at the end and instead exited the stage area.
what went well?