This semester has resulted in a real community of support. My grad-cohort is awesome and most if not all the preliminary tools I need to make, write, create, put forth work and fail have been introduced to me in our “Foundations in Dance Research” course. “Laban Systems: Movements, Methods, and Analytical…
The other day I realized I actually know things. I’ve been perfecting technique and practicing performance for a while, studying from different people along the way that had skills and certifications in Bartenieff, Alexander, Yoga, Feldenkrais, Meditation, Release technique, classical techniques (Horton, Graham, Humphrey, Limon, etc.) and various other forms of techniques…
There is something really satisfying about completing my first five measures of Structured Labanotation.
Today we created a movement phrase based on the following parameters: Leading/Initiated movement with a particular body part Primary weight in a place that is not your feet Sliding with weight Sliding without weight The phrase I created was task based and ended up being really interesting. I might have…