I'm baaaack
It's been a hell of a long time, hasn't it? :) IM BACK FROM MY CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP!!!
It was kind of an out of body experience. Looking back, I have no idea how I ended up creating so many different pieces so easily. Okay so it wasn't easy, but I survived and I made a good list of contacts and I got incredible feedback! Every day I got to choose a different class to take- ballet, modern or jazz, and then we had choreography class for an hour and a half. We had this incredible director of music (Paul: from canada, lives in the real O.C., has over a million cds, and is a diehard hockey fan... can you say perfect? ..okay so he's like 45...) who taught us how to decrypt music and uncover themes and pick up on all the different instruments and rhythms. He was so smart. Then Lesley (big intimidating but experienced choreographer whom I love to DEATH, who helped everyone out in so many ways...there really aren't wonderful enough words to describe this woman) would come in and use all our new music knowledge to relate to choreography. Then we'd work through lunch, usually talking about smaller things like how to find a job, partnering tips, dealing with the media etc, and receive our assignments for the afternoon. Each day we were given music, a specific amount of dancers, and an assignment like "all dancers must be touching all the time," or "find a theme and vary it endlessly." They were damn hard. But I'm fifty times better a choreographer because of it. They gave us music that challenged us, stuff we weren't comfortable with... it worked... and it opened my mind. Sigh, i will never be in that creative a place again... of course i said that last year at bennington... this was more professional though, not just kids at summer camp. Anyway, then we had three hours to choreograph our dance and then after dinner we'd space our pieces and perform them, in costumes and everything. Then we'd get critiqued around 10. Can you say long ass day? haha. i'm still recuperating- i didn't really realize how tired i was when i was there...
i'll update more later...
It was kind of an out of body experience. Looking back, I have no idea how I ended up creating so many different pieces so easily. Okay so it wasn't easy, but I survived and I made a good list of contacts and I got incredible feedback! Every day I got to choose a different class to take- ballet, modern or jazz, and then we had choreography class for an hour and a half. We had this incredible director of music (Paul: from canada, lives in the real O.C., has over a million cds, and is a diehard hockey fan... can you say perfect? ..okay so he's like 45...) who taught us how to decrypt music and uncover themes and pick up on all the different instruments and rhythms. He was so smart. Then Lesley (big intimidating but experienced choreographer whom I love to DEATH, who helped everyone out in so many ways...there really aren't wonderful enough words to describe this woman) would come in and use all our new music knowledge to relate to choreography. Then we'd work through lunch, usually talking about smaller things like how to find a job, partnering tips, dealing with the media etc, and receive our assignments for the afternoon. Each day we were given music, a specific amount of dancers, and an assignment like "all dancers must be touching all the time," or "find a theme and vary it endlessly." They were damn hard. But I'm fifty times better a choreographer because of it. They gave us music that challenged us, stuff we weren't comfortable with... it worked... and it opened my mind. Sigh, i will never be in that creative a place again... of course i said that last year at bennington... this was more professional though, not just kids at summer camp. Anyway, then we had three hours to choreograph our dance and then after dinner we'd space our pieces and perform them, in costumes and everything. Then we'd get critiqued around 10. Can you say long ass day? haha. i'm still recuperating- i didn't really realize how tired i was when i was there...
i'll update more later...
