My structure is now complete but I use the term 'complete' lightly. I have the bare bones of the story that I wanted to tell. I have finally narrowed the focus of this piece to examine various forms of protest through the cultural lens of the 1960s in America.
Although these videos are seperate, the work is one continuous piece. Due to a technical difficulty we had to stop in the middle of the run-through and resume in a seperate video. I already see changes that I would like to make, including a musical change on the opening phrase and a musical change on a new phrase in the middle of the piece. I also plan to incorporate gestures and movement that evoke specific images of protest.
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Dear Whitney:
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed coming to your rehearsal as well as watching your video. A few observations of what I see in the work:
(1) Group connection: groupie situation that dancers pull away from. Consider choreographing how they pull away - put it into dance form (give form to the emotion so to speak).
(2) Line Form: make sure we know the purpose of the unison movement. This setting needs to be developed before you break it up and dissolve the situation.
(3) Clarify the purpose of the duets. Does each duet have specific character and purpose?
(4) Pedestrian attitude. Make sure it is very specific for each person or every person so it doesn't appear unclear or random. How can you make the walk to the audience more interesting.
Seems like there are many transitions and they need to be thought out and danced out and developed or completed as a thought/intention.
(5) Drag is a good theme. How does this resolve?
(6) Music segmentation.....challenge that I am not sure how to help you with. Maybe there is one theme that continue to reoccur or overrides the others as they come and go.
(7) The vinette aspect of the piece now could be a form if somehow it is satisfying to watch and not just another regrouping. Something to think about. Any chance there could be more than one thing happening at a time so it is not so clear cut (duets, drag, etc)?
(8) Give movement to people when it is taking too long for them to come up with something that satisfies the moment. Come in with some material and see what they can do with it.
(9) How does it end? What culminates?
Thank you Whitney.
Maida