Blog Assignment for Friday, October 2, 2015 - Advanced Dance

Intermediate Dance

Watch your group video and evaluate yourself for strengths and weaknesses in the following areas:

Knowledge of Sequence
Time
Space
Energy
Expression
Precision
Technique
Ensemble
Creativity and Preparation

Discuss each area in terms of your personal successes and/or deficiencies. Provide detailed information.





Proficient and Advanced Dance

Watch your group video and evaluate yourself and your peers for strengths and weaknesses in the following areas:

Knowledge of Sequence
Time
Space
Energy
Expression
Precision
Technique
Ensemble
Creativity and Preparation

Discuss each area in terms of your personal successes and/or deficiencies. Do the same for your peers/group. Provide detailed information.





*It is my suggestion that you include a link to your video on your blog post for future reference.

Instructions to link videos to your blog.

1 - Click on the share link (on the Youtube page).
2 - Click embed.
3 - Copy the html code
4 - Click the html button on your blog post and paste the code into the post.
5 - Click the compose button again, you should see your video.
6 - Publish your post/video.

You may also simply copy/paste the URL if you are using your phone to post. The video will not appear but the link will be accessible.

Fun Warm-up Games for Theater!

Chance Method

Choreography by chance...

 

"...by the potential of random phenomena as determinants of structure. Inspired also by the pursuit of pure movement as devoid as possible of emotional implications, Cunningham developed “choreography by chance,” a technique in which selected isolated movements are assigned sequence by such random methods as tossing a coin."

                                                                                                                      ~ Merce Cunningham

Student Created Chance Method Phrasing

Advanced Dance Student


Proficient Dance Student


Intermediate Dance Student

Origame Crane Tutorial/Blog Post 3

This is the origami paper crane we are making for our production, One Thousand Cranes.



Blog Post 3 Instructions - Explore Youtube for production ideas for our play. Post links to the videos you find interesting/useful. Be sure to keep our blocking choices and budget in mind while you explore possible costume, properties and set choices for our production. Explain the ideas inspired by each video you post.

Beginning Theater Silent Film Projects

Using the rubric provided, evaluate each silent film in the following areas:

Body (physicality, blocking, facial expressions)
Characterization
Ensemble
Energy
Creativity and Preparation
Communication (Did the group effectively use scenes and signs to communicate the main ideas of their silent film?)

Blog Post Number 3 Assignment
Provide a detailed explanation of your evaluation of yourself/your group's silent film. In other words, explain your score choices in each area of your rubric.

Partnering; Counter Balance and Weight Sharing

Partner Work - Use this Youtube video as inspiration to create your own partnering choreography.

Beginning Theater Silent Film History

Silent Film History




Silent Film Project - Your group will use your mime, pantomime and combat mime scenes to create a silent film by mapping it out on a storyboard.

Storyboard - A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.



What should be on my storyboard?
Shots and Signs - Each square represents a shot (video recording of scene work) or sign. The lines below the square are designated for writing descriptions of what happens in your scenes/shots.

Types of Shots - Close-up, Long and Mid-range (You should have at least one close-up and mid-range shot in your film).

What is on a sign?
Dialogue - "Oh no! Watch out!!!"

Project Example/Previous Student Work

Research, write and perform!

Performing a play requires a great deal of research and preparation. This semester the Advanced Theater class is performing the play, One Thousand Cranes. The play is about the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

As a classroom exercise I asked my students to write down the word Hiroshima and brainstorm a list of as many related words as they could think of. Here are some words they came up with.

Japan
bomb
many casualties/death
World War II
fear/panic
culture (Non-Western)
mutation/birth defects/cancer
radiation
Pearl Harbor
explosion
emotional trauma

Next, I paired them up and instructed them to write a scene using as many words as possible. The following videos demonstrate the performed scenes they wrote in class.