Rehearsal 11/ 27 middle of my dance piece

 This part in the dance is already 2 minutes. I have the two girl's started of dancing upstage right  together to show how I always wanted to be around my older sister. I didn't have Jimmy (as my older brother) today for this day so I made choreographed without him.  He is off stage for this part and just the two girl's. This part towards the middle there going to partner together to show a nice relationship as sister's.

My Rehearsal Part 3 11/8

11/8

 Today in rehearsal I cleaned up what I had them demonstrate in the last rehearsal. I added more to my piece to make my dancers look more together and show connection. Being together while dancing show's how me and my sister and brother were always together when I was younger and later on there will be a part where Tede omits from the two dancers. To show independence. While walking off stage I will add this to the end of my piece.

My Rehearsal Part 1 11/5

11/5 2012
This is the one of the middle parts that I started to teach my dancers. This is not the beginning of my dance but It's probably one of the parts I will put in somewhere. Right now I have a clear view of what I'm going to teach to my dancers and it want mainly throughout my piece, Vanessa and Jimmy together as my older brother and sister and Tede as me alone most of the time.

Movement drawing

Circle, Zig Zag, Straight line, Your own shape to draw

   

        

      During choreography class we were instructed to draw any symbols that the teach would say without picking up our pencils. We had to draw a circle, a zig zag, a straight line and our own shape. The objective of this assignment was when keeping your pen on the paper and not picking it up just to keep a pattern was when dancing you keep moving without thinking of what comes next, such as improvisation while you move, while demonstrating our shapes we drew.

  

Senior Dance project- Rehearsal/ Tadazsha's motif

* This is a motif I wanted to see Tadazsha (Tede) demonstrate. She will be symbolizing me in my dance. She'll be acting as if she always wants to follow my brother and sister ( Jimmy and Vanessa) and towards the end have a solo dance but very different and stronger than the first solo in the beginning. This will show her detachment away from them and being more independence.

Senior Dance Project - Rehearsal/ Motif of Vanessa

* This is Vanessa's motif that I had her do to show me what her struggles are and what movements she is more comfortable with doing. In this motif I had her symbolize my older sister, As I explained in Jimmy's motif.

Senior Dance Project - Outline

My theme of my Senior Dance Project : Umbrella theme, (Growth)

The roots of my dance starts from ..

• Always wanting to be around my older siblings and follow their every move. My older brother and sister were very to themselves and I wanted to grow up so fast just so I can be able to do the things they were able to do. They were interested in basketball and track and field sports and I wanted to copy them and in middle school I joined the girl's basketball team and the track and field team. I loved to run but soon realized I wanted to branch off away from what they "always" did and go on my own path. 

* Therefore in my dance I want to show the growth in how I was following my older brother and sister at first and then eventually finding my own calling in what I do best, which is dance. I also want to show how this is very different from what my brother and sister do and that's also why I wanted to do it. Then towards the end I want to be more alone that will show strength and independence with branching away from them.

Senior Dance Project Rehearsal Motif of Jimmy

• My first rehearsal was consisting of introducing my theme to my dancers and making sure they understood my vision of how I want my dance to go. I told each person (3 people) which sibling of mine they were going to be symbolizing and told them a little background of my siblings and their personality. 
• I had each dancer make a short motif of the character they were going to be dancing like, in this motif my dancer Djimmy was symbolizing my older brother. I told Jimmy to dance make a little solo acting very independent and always wanting to protect your younger sisters. Not having much of a father figure around put a empty hole in our lives, his movements were very small and more strong.
• I'm going to take all of my dancer movements and put a dance together in shape of what they dance like. 

Senior Dance Choreo- Tiffany's Piece

Tiffany's Dance with classmates

 - This is also another one I was apart of, taking choreography from my classmate Tiffany. She wanted to symbolize the ocean, almost like the water (How the water moves). I think this was very successful in the way she wanted us to move around and the movements being similar to water.

Senior Dance Choreo - Hassian's piece

 Within our groups, We had to learn what the choreographer which is Hassian in this case wanted us to do. We had to teach our group what we wanted our senior piece to almost look like, This one is Hassian's dance and we also had to get familiar with stage directions and using dance terms as well. So we can begin our Senior Dance of our own. That would be the next stage in moving up if we were successful with making our classmates symbolize what we wanted our dance to be.

Choreography within groups PT.1

 

As a class we slpit up into groups, groups of four. We were instructed to teach our group our solo's from previous classes. As with teaching the group your dance you also had to input some dance choreographic terms in our dance to make it look like a whole dance put together while making each dancer(group member) perform it. Some terms I used to begin with my dance is 

                                                                                                                 - Canon

                                                                                                                    - Contrast

                                                                                                                  - Climax

I used canon a lot throughout this piece so one of my feedbacks was to make sure I have CLARITY through some of my moves and make more of my movements faster and bigger all together. It kind of looks predictable with watching my piece and that's exactly what I don't want, I want the dancers to move even faster and so you'll never know what's going to happen next. That's what I have to work on for improving this dance and also incorporate some counterpoints in my dance and make sure the movements where I want to elongate the movement is very clear and slow.

Andy and Myself (3Object motif)

In this video, Myself and my classmate had to bring in three objects that mean something to us and would like to start choreographing with. Example, In my other post I have a basketball, a baby picture of my father holding me at my 1st birthday, and a stuffed animal. Then we had to make a motif including this three objects and put them all together. In this motif I wanted to show strength in my movements for example when in the beginning I start to raise my hands and bring them down beside my body in a slow motion. I wanted to elongate that part to start showing this motif is a strength/ growing process. A lot of my movements are very tense within my arms and a lot of me standing up instead of on the floor. First My teacher told me to change my dance around but standing up because I'm always on the floor when I come up with solos. So standing up was a big jump than what I'm "use" to. In this motif I also wanted to make it clear that my father wasn't always there for me like he should've been and he didn't support me through dance but before I started dancing I also did basketball and he attended all my games. I made my moves very firm but then loosing up after stretching my arms to show the gaps between him wanted to be there and choosing to not be there when I changed my dream.

9/11 Modify

This film shows the struggle of young daughters that have lost their fathers and mothers in the 9/11 tragedy. I showed through some of my slow movements the gap between growing up without their parents and wondering if they would ever meet them.

Junior Choreography Description

         Junior Choreography was testing your ability and putting your own technique in shape of
making your own person solo. We had numerous classes to help build up our clear view on what to choreograph and what kind of different dance terms to put in our solo, for example: - "AB" which means a two part compositional form with a start and an ending theme. With my junior solo I wanted more of an piece that truly shows myself and who I am and move like as a dancer. While in the process of making this I created many motifs and based my theme of my feeling at that moment. This process was a wreck in the brain to me and usually when you randomly dance and your alone, you come up with so many movements and ideas that I didn't know how to put all my thoughts / ideas together.

Junior Solo Video