March 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Space Chase
Comment on your personal experience with the Space Chase collaborations. Any thoughts on how developing “dances” in alternative spaces affects how you view those spaces or a traditional performance space such as a stage.
How did your experience with the Space Chase influence how you perceive dances and what we consider dance? and where dance should be performed?
How might this project affect/influence your study of other visual and/or performance arts?
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I noticed that the chase space project really made us expand on our choreography because there was only so much that we could do in the space that we chose. Our piece was done in the stair case by the math wing so a lot of what we did was incorrporating the railings in our piece as well as lots of level changes to go along with the theme of the stairs.
It was really interesting and cool to watch the other pieces as well. Seeing the different spaces that each group used and how they molded their choreography around the space was enjoyable to watch. I really liked doing this project because i think that it really enhanced our choreography and was fun.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:20 pmMy experience with the Space Chase project was really rewarding. My group chose to be on the front entrance of the school. I was chosen to be the photographer because I am actually in photo class. We developed ideas of ways to utilize the space we have and work with the architectural design. We used the different shapes and elements of the space and found a certain uniqueness that cannot be captured by being on a stage.
I was trained in traditional ballet and tap. We never had sets and used very little props. But dance is really about movement and the different ways to move your body. Dance to me is not about the precision of the movement but rather the movement phrase. Dancing happens all over the place. A stage doesn’t define dancing, but dancing defines the stage.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:11 amI noticed that in our space chase we utilized our space differently than we would a usual performance area because of the effects it created. By placing our audience in a spot that made some parts viewable and others not; we were able to use disappearing and reappearing as an effect. I think that by being able to choose where we could have our audience view and how we could work the space the pieces developed in a much more abstract way than usual. This project made dancing seem to be just simply moving around “fluently” in the space- and making use of all of the natural props that were presented. I think that the contrast of a new performance arena was really interesting to see, it changed the concept of the dance while still allowing us to move and perform.
It was really interesting to see what could be done with small groups and very little actual dancing movement. Without spending a lot of time doing any technical things the groups managed to perform and keep and audience interested. I think that the change in space and the task to fulfill all the corners of the space made it really fun to see what we could come up with. This was a really fun project that challenged the ideas that traditionally come to mind.
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 amI really had a great time with the Space Chase project. I was a little apprehensive at first, because I wasn’t quite sure what the assignment was, but I came to truly enjoy what we were doing. I was in Marissa’s group at that front entrance, and in the beginning, it took us a bit to figure out how to use the space to incorporate movement. Once we got into it, the ideas really started flowing. We were able to mimic many of the shapes, accentuate the lines presented by the different elements of architecture, capture the essence of movement (mid-motion pictures) and come up with some natural movement/poses.
I do agree with Marissa about her definition of Dance in that it is more about the movement phrase and defining the stage. We focused more on bring out the architecture rather than focus solely on bringing ourselves out. It was an effort to fit in the architecture rather than make the architecture fit what we did.
March 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pmAt first I was skeptical of using different areas of the school for a stage but it actually turned out to be a real eye-opening experience. My group worked in the art hallway and immediately knew we wanted to utilize the length and depth of the space. We found crazy music and from there the ideas kept coming.
Later when I saw other group’s perforamances I was very impressed and realzied that my group could have developed our movement and concepts even more. I have always been open to dancing in unique settings, but this was the first time I actually had a chance to.
Unfortunately, most dances are still performed on stage- atleast in the professional world, but a different setting would create a whole new feel to the same piece. It would be really cool if I saw a dance in the auditorium and later again outside on the front steps to understand the different atmoshpere of each.
Overall I think we should definetely do this project again. It took us choreographers out of our safe zone and into a entirely new creative one.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:08 pmI thought the Space Chase was a really cool idea. It gave each dance an individual feel because they each took place on their own “stages”. It definitely changed my view on everyday space. The attic was our space and, for me, exemplified clutter and dark and dank and we really used that and elaborated on that to create some eerie camera shots. It gave me another view on just a normal dance performance and I could really see how a performance doesn’t have to be solely on a stage with an audience. It can be in a dirty corridor in old musty wedding dresses.
This changed my view of dance because a lot of the groups used still photos but it still conveyed movement and passion to me. And it definitely helped me to think outside of the box and get away from a normal performance ideology. In ours especially I felt that each member in our group really took on a character and pushed it to its fullest and it helped to collaborate dance and acting.
This project helped to find beauty in simple places. Our group took a series of photos on a stairwell and the more we took the more ideas came and the more creative we got. I think the Space Chase project helped to connect visual arts and performing arts for me and this was definitely a worth while project.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pmI really enjoyed this project! I loved the freedom given to each group; it really helped make each dance different. I also like that it wasn’t restricted to just making a dance, and many groups had more of a story. I know the group I was in, the Nomads, chose to portray the school in a differnt way. We made the halls into a place for leap frog, the locker banks a place for crack the whip, and ramps were perfect for rolling. Our group’s transformation of the school to a playground really let me have a good time. I liked seeing each group’s interpretation of the different spaces in the school in comparison to my own interpretation.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:32 pmI love the space chase! Probably one of the best projects that I have done in the past two years of being in dance. It really lets dissect all that dance is. It isn’t just plies and jet es, it’s movement in general. Being able to move and cover ground and take up space is what dance is all about. Finding new ways to represent yourself and everything you stand for. Dance is life, as ridiculous as that may sound.
Every movement we make; every step, turn, jump and jog we take is all interconnected into dance, which is what this project showed us. I also love the freedom that came with it. We weren’t directed to one particular type of dance, we were to make it up as we saw fit. Amazingly, it worked. The branching of ideas and then watching how all of our movies all had something in common made us realize that all of dance and movement is relevant to one another, we just don’t know it.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:21 pmThrough the years in dance class, we have tried many different approaches to creating choreography. The “Space Chase” added a new aspect of choreographing by changing the space in which we choreograph and perform. I thought this was a fun way to explore movement. Our group tried to incorporate the structural and functional elements of the space, which I would not consider working with in a normal stage or studio. Although we did get some confused stares from passerbys, this project showed us that dance can be performed anywhere, even in a staircase. I enjoyed the change of scenery in this different way of approaching dance.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pmI thought that this project was fun! It gave us a chance to explore our options outside the studio. It wasn’t too hard to choreograph creative pieces because we had a completely different environment to work and play in. You could utilize it in different ways. It could simply provide the ambiance for your piece, or it could play a major part of your piece, such as a instrument or a prop.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pmNot only did the environment give dancers room to explore, but provided a new way in which we presented our projects. Opposed to all the groups using the same space and simply performing in front of an audience, we could record, take pictures, or perform for and place the audience where ever we preferred. For example, the group that performed their piece on the stairs… It was refreshing to view the piece from a bird’s-eye view. It also made the levels changes seem that much more dramatic.
My group especially had fun working on this project. We got to travel throughout the school, performing our piece in places not typically expected. The progressive slideshow we put together allowed us to dramatize the movement and be more artistic. most of the movement in our piece was playful, natural, and simple. Yet, the final product showed so much more than that.
Finally, I appreciated the freedom to chose where and what to do for this project. It leaves room for personal preference and creativity, more so than when we are assigned a vague dance mission in a given space.
The space chase activity helped me alot to realize all of the different ways that you can use space when choreagraphing. When putting together a dance i think it is important to use different spacing, in entrances and exits and in the different transformations throughout the performance. Being blindfolded and lead around the room helped to realize all of the different unique ways you can switch up the spacing.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:34 pmThis activity helped alot to explore the different aspects of space and how you can switch it up in new transformations. At first it was scary to be lead around the room by someone who you didnt know very well, but once you started to trust the person then the activity was fun and different. I think that it relates a lot to choreagraphing a piece because you have to trust the choreagrapher when putting together the piece and hope that it turns out the way they envisioned it.
When we began the Space Chase project I actually missed the first day with my group so when I came into it I wasn’t exactly sure what we were supposed to do, and I liked that. The project was explained to me but the fact that it was so open ended and I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with it led to great opportunities for my group. We didn’t create just a set of choreography, we prepared a slideshow of photos that showed my group moving through the spaces. We had all different kinds of ripples, abstract shapes, and spacing changes which I think made for a really interesing final product. This project helped me percieve not so much the way dances should be performed but what is really inbetween each movement. With each picture we took the audience could see a clear cut distinction from one shape to the other making it easy to decipher where the movement was coming from. So, for me it was more of a learning experience to pick up more on where all the little details like the initiation of the movement come from.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:09 pmHow did your experience with the Space Chase influence how you perceive dances and what we consider dance? and where dance should be performed?
How might this project affect/influence your study of other visual and/or performance arts?
I loved the space chase project. The idea in itself was so completely novel and creative that I was excited from the get-go. We chose a space that most people don’t know about except for us. This gave us a lot of freedom to shift and toy with the viewer’s pre-conceived ideas of what the space is usually used for. While brainstorming for that specific space, we discovered much more about it than we had ever noticed before. The dimensions, the versatility, and possibilities it held seemed to have multiplied by the end of the project.
Through those 2 weeks, dance no longer was constrained to the pre-set movements that we knew. It was less about technique and more about how we could incorporate ourselves into our surroundings. We had to spend time in the space to understand it and its capabilities. The space chase also helped to transform our idea that dance is for performance into the concept that dance is energy. Its a give and take relationship between your own energy and the energy present in your surroundings. We can apply this concept to almost every other art form. In drawing, you find inspiration to create in your surroundings. The same goes for acting, only you pay attention to people, human nature,and relationships. I liked this project because it was about discovery.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:47 pmSpace Chase really opened my eyes to the different ways that a choreographer can use space to inspire movement, and all the different aspects of the space that can be used. I found that using depth and perspective created unique effects that normally cannot be acheived through performing movement on a simple stage. My group chose the windows in the math wing, and had the audience watch from outside. This technique allowed to audience to better visualize the depth of the space we were using through the the alternate viewpoint.
I also really enjoyed trying to embody elements of the space through movement, and I think through this all the groups created a lot of interesting choreography.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:48 pmThe Space Chase project was very interesting. It was a chance for us to dance in different spaces that are normally are not used for dancing. The group that I was in was dancing in the Art Hallway. With the many doors that were spread out all through the hallway were a great use of the disapearing and reapering element. The one thing that I thought was a bit constraning was the limited amount of space, but that made it all the more fun because we had to take what we knew and expand that so that it could be incorporated in the specific space.
One thing that I thought was really funny was the reaction of the people that were walking through our hallway. They always gave us really weird looks and were probably thinking that we were crazy. I thought that this project was really fun. Every person in our group was able to contribute something and I think that’s what made our piece flow nicely. I would like to do something like this again. This was something that was very different from what are used to doing and it allowed us to expand our horizons and perspectives of dance.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:55 pmi really enjoyed the space chase project. Each projects realy changed completely even in the format that it was presented in depending on the space that was being used. My group chose the attic which is a place that alot of us are very familiar with but that many people dont even know exists. So it was alot of fun for us to be able to show the feeling and atmosphere of the attic in a kindof mysterious and eerie way. This project taught me to tune in alot more to not only the movement in the piece, but how the atmosphere and space that it is performed in affects it.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:03 amI really liked the space chase. It was fun and different from anything we’ve ever done in dance before. By creating choreography in spaces that we are not used to, it forced us to see things differently, including the space and movements. The fact that it was so open-ended really made them interesting too.
By using different spaces every movement looked different. It’s amazing how, even when keeping the movement the same, various spaces can make the movement look so different. When groups perform on stage, the movement can sometimes seem redundant, but when the space is changed the movement takes on a new identity.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:50 amI really liked this project. It allowed us to work collaboratively and we really were able to interpret the different spaces we were in. It was interesting to use dance to contrast the space we were in. We were in the art hallway and it was cool to use the different areas’ special features. We used appearance and disappearance in the doorways to add interest. There were also elements of cumulation that was fun. I would recomend donig this project again.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:27 amIn this particular activity, i feel like i learned a lot about movement in different spaces. Using a long hallway was much different from a dance made for the stage. I feel that we used the space well and made it fun to watch. It was much harder to have a large audience like we could have in the auditorium but it was a different feel. I had a good time and i hope we can do this again next year.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:28 amThe space chase project was probably my favorite project we’ve done in dance throughout the past two years. It was interesting to explore a different aspect of dance in a location other than our dance studio. There is so much to explore besides the flat plane that we normally choose to dance on. Our group explored the attic and it really changed my ideas about movement and dance in general. While we explore different media outlets (film, video, etc) we still tried to use the attic as a theme in itself by choosing different ideas with the costumes that we found from the basement. By juxtaposing the unique elements of metal and scenery we found in the attic, our project turned out successful and it really helped me to expand the way that I view different themes when it comes to dance; hopefully this is something that I can take and use in future artistic endeavors.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:17 amI really liked the space chase projects because it allowed all of us to be very creative. I think the fact that the project was not limited really helped to inspire more ideas. I also liked that we were able to pick our groups because we already knew each others styles and could really develop a piece of choreography. Doing the space chase project really made me think about spaces in a different way. The space that my group chose-the attic and using costumes from the warehouse were places that I didn’t even know existed at this school. I also believe that I was able to be even more creative since the maps idea was used throughout the fine arts department. I take photography and I thought the connection between my two classes became stronger. In our project we even incorporated photos. Even though we used only one space, my group decided to portray it in different ways, from creepy and crazy to a fun and bright environment.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:18 amI agree with Tessie about the project finding beauty in unexpected places. I think that this project helped me look at the space around me in a different way. It was fun, different, and challenging. We had a fun time collaborating and creating our idea, and, overall, I think it was effective. I feel like this is a project that we can apply to our lives. I now notice the patterns of people in the hallways and classrooms, which keeps me engaged throughout my school day. This project definitely broke the barriers and stereotypes of dances being performed only on a stage, and I think that it helped us express our ideas and opinions in a different manner. This can directly apply to theatre, because, in theatre, actors are always exploring the space around them. In any given scene, the actors need to utilise their surroundings to get the most out of their art, and this project definitely opened my eyes to that concept.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:18 amI loved this project. It was so much fun to be able to explore and work in spaces that are actually used day-to-day. It made me look at stairs in a whole new way, and all the other spaces, too. While my group was still deciding what area we wanted, I was already thinking about all the different things we could do in all the spaces. The elevator would have been cool, with the different levels and the fact that you could dissappear into it. That group did a really nice job, and it’s fun to see an elevator in a dance. All the groups did a great job, and I loved watching the videos, but I do wish that there could have been more live performances. The technology was neat, but I would have prefered a live showing.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pmI really really loved this project. It was fun to choreograph a piece outside of a stage or dance studio for once! I also really liked how we got to choose where we wanted our audience to view the piece. I never really took the time to realize how viewing a piece from different points can really change the entire reaction of the viewer! I also loved how in 4th hour, everyone seemed to work off of the school environment that they chose. For example, the stairwell piece dancers used the railings to go under and hold themselves up, and my group (who was at the windows) used each window as almost a frame for each dancer! I would definitely like do do a project like this again!
April 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pmI think that the space chase made me really appreciate the area that i was in a lot more. instead of seeing it as just a functional place, i really saw it as a piece of artwork with impressive diversity in texture, aesthetics, and line. It kind of felt like when Marcel Duchamp took a urinal and called it “Fountain” by putting it in another context. It was a really rewarding experience.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:44 pmHow did your experience with the Space Chase influence how you perceive dances and what we consider dance? and where dance should be performed?
How might this project affect/influence your study of other visual and/or performance arts?
It was an extremely interesting experience to use different spaces throughout the school as a stage. I thoroughly enjoyed the Space Chase idea and loved being able to expand the typical image of a “stage”. I felt like I was really allowed to explore the meaning of a stage and how it can be portrayed. I loved being able to used photo and video to convey a story or movement. As for live performances, I really enjoyed watching Kelsey Trotta’s dance group. I know I would have never thought of the idea of using percussion on the stairs to create an awesome movement piece. Really sweet idea!
Being able to explore an area in the school that no one normally thinks about was really rewarding for me. Working in attic added some flavor and mystery to our piece. WE really got to spice things up with different costumes and form a story line or theme for the different spaces within the attic. I really appreciated the freedom we had to explore the entire school. I also thought it was extremely cool to have a change of perspective on the meaning of a stage. A stage doesn’t necessarily have to be on one side of a room with the audience looking directly at the front of the piece. An audience can be placed in different angles and spaces as well to give a totally different perspective of a piece. I enjoyed learning about that because my perception of a stage and position of an audience were very limited before this project.
This project has really encouraged me to explore different “spaces” or “stages” in my own artistic pursuits. With music, I think it’s important to explore the different audiences you have and to explore different rhythms and styles. Although it doesn’t necessary incorporate movement, I think in both cases it is necessary to constantly be molding and forming new techniques and perspectives.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pmThis project was a great way to be aware of the space that dancers use. I personally have benefited from this project, knowing that dance and movement can be performed in so many different ways in an open space or even an elevator. Using an elevator as a stage was so unique and fun to do. The shapes and different ideas that were contributed toward the space were so unique and original. The photos that we took had a different vibe to them once put into a slide show with the music which i thought had benefited our project even more. I would have liked a little more time to explore more areas but even in the amount of time we had I still feel I have benefited from it.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:08 pmThis project really opened up creativity in everyone. Having a project like this is something everyone needs to do, as much as possible in life! It really opens up the way you think about space, the elements that create a picture, no matter how simple. The space can be completely reformed by your imagination. Having an exercise like this gets the creative juices flowing in our brains, and is really helpful especially in a school environment. It especially works with things like dance because it can tell a story, and make the image of “school” disappear. We all transform space into some sort of art sometime in our lifetime, through paint, hanging artwork, draperies, etc. and this is a really good expanse of that.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:39 pmThis project has been my favorite. I never really liked the ones we do when we pick a dancer but I liked this one because we had the chance to think creatively and outside the box. I had so many ideas for this project and I’m glad my group used them. This project really helped us explore the spaces a lot more and same goes for our body movements. We had the opportunity with this assignment to decide for ourselves how we wanted to do our dance, this was a very open assignment. What I also liked was that we had a perfect amount of time to do it, we didn’t waste time and it wasn’t like we needed any more. Space Chase was my favorite.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:21 pmI though this project was really interesting. At first it was difficult for our group to decide which space we wanted to utilize, but as soon as we had an idea it became easier to visualize what we wanted to do. Our group really enjoyed the freedom of the the creative outlet we could use (i.e. video, still shot, live performance) I think it really added a dynamic to dance that none of us had ever though existed. When you first think of dance your mind goes right to live performance, this project really opened my mind to other aspects of movement.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pmI thought the space chase project was really interesting because it forced us to expand our choreography, and in some cases, even led us to try out different art forms. My group, rather than creating locomotive movement like we are used to doing, focused on creating shapes and put them together in a slide show. I really enjoyed looking at movement in a differerent way, focusing on what effects can be created simply by intermingling the dancer’s bodies. we had a lot of fun playing around with levels and layering and creating illusions through the use of these. The techniques I learned during this project helped me in my choreography for my other pieces.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pmI loved this project because there are so many places around the school with so much space that everyone got to express themselves in. Although my group was familiar with “the attic” most people didn’t know it existed. Our group got to use all the costumes in the basement that majority of people don’t know about either. It was really a good chance to see all the spaces in the school that go unnoticed. Our group made our piece really theatrical and fun. Alot of times when we choreograph pieces we don’t realize how much space we really have to work with. This was such a fun project to explore and really be creative with it. I also enjoyed watching everyone else’s pieces at the end, because other people might’ve tried something you would not have though of.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:41 amI believe that the space chase was a wonderful way for everyone to experience something new. My group worked with the elevator, and we displayed the different levels on the elevator and showed what kind of students, as well as faculty travel each day on the elevator. We showed the different space that one can fill inside the elevator, and made a picture slide show of each step one takes onto the elevator, only we made each step be a different person. That way it looked a lot better. We also took pictures of different poses inside the elevator. But over all it was nice to see how everyone used their space.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pmi liked doing this activity becuase you had the freedom and space to move how you wanted. i think this was a good lesson for dancers and people that want to be choreographers, it teaches one how to move in little or big movement in little space or big space. i thought it was cool how everyone had there own space and how some people did movies, music, no music or sounds with there voices every group that i saw was so unique and different.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:47 amDoing the space chase activity really made me think about what is considered “dance.” It’s much like the arguement about what is “art.” Just because you say something is art or dance, is it really that? I think the most important factor in considering whether an art form such as visual art or dance is really art or just, for example, people flailing their arms randomly or someone sticking a piece of paper on the wall and saying it’s a masterpiece is the thought/motive behind it. Someome might go up to that piece of paper on a wall and see something deep in it, but others might say, “That’s not art- that’s something my 4 year old sister can do.” So really, what made our space chase pieces art- what made them a dance piece- was our motive behind them. We brought dance out of context (outside of an auditorium or studio) and placed it where people now have to consider what we’re really doing. The creation process is what made it a dance.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pmThis assigment was amazing! It really made us think of how to incorporate dance into everyday objects and places. Our theme consisted more of taking child games and turning them into shapes and movements. It was really neat working with the shapes of the building too! We were able to roll down some of the hallways and match ourselves to the light fixtures. We also were able to take advantage of the curves in the locker banks, and swerve our bodies around them. It was really interesting to see the other peices as well because everyone took the project in a different perspective and you can see everyones personalities in it!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:57 pmThis project was one of my favorite things I have done all year in dance class. I loved thinking outside the box choreographically to incorporate the space we worked in. My group did a really cool photo powerpoint of cool illusions to represent the photo hallway with all the pretty windows. We made a lot of cool photos using shadow and imitating art work on the walls. If we were to do this project again I would incorporate video and music into our piece. I would also incorporate costume, like wearing all black so our clothes wouldn’t be distracting. I think it would be really cool to incorporate sounds and echoes in our piece because the hallway is so long and wide, but it would be distracting to classrooms. We definately should do this project next year with some new creative boundries. I would be interesting in using stairs and railings to create movement. It was really nice to step out of our usual dance studio class. I like doing choreography projects because we see a lot of really cool creativity.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pmI think it was good to get out of the studio and stretch our ideas about performance spaces. I know personally, as soon as we were in a different space our whole group came up with new creative ideas that we never would have if we hadn’t changed our environment. When we had previously choreographed in the studio, the idea scared me. I didn’t trust myself to come up with something interesting, but the repetition and line of the senior locker bank offered a new stimulus to respond to. Also, it helped break down our functional fixedness of how a performance should be and what can be a set. For instance, we climbed all over the lockers and used them as an integral part of our piece, whereas normally we would walk by the locker bank and not expect to see people scooting along the top of the lockers.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:39 amThe space chase project was a very intersesting project it required us to get out of the normal stage dance floor and use differnt spaces with in the school. It was very important in our group to utalize the space around us. We were in the photo hall way so we decided to make our project with pictures and we wanted it to appear like a flip book for some of our pictures so that it looked like we were moving. I never really thought of how many differnt places you can preform dance and this project changed my views because before i didnt think that dance could be preformed anywhere but after seeing all of the other groups in our class i was impressed how they used there spaces. Lots of choreography was based off the spaces the groups were in. I really enjoyed this project and hope we can do something like this next year. I think that doing dance projects allow us to get out of the studio and think out of the box.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:54 amI thought the Space Chase project revealed much more than I originally anticipated. The space that my group worked with (the outside front steps) seemed fairly boring and plain, but after we incorporated it’s design and architecture into our project, it became much more interesting. Our dance/movement would have been uninteresting if we performed it on stage without any of the architecture from the area, so in a sense, our movement complimented the space, and the space complimented our movement.
The project somewhat influenced the way I perceive dance; I now look at the surrounding environment more closely now, thanks to the project. Sometimes a dance will seem much more interesting if you relate it to it’s surroundings and where exactly it is taking place. Relating that to my study of visual and performing arts, I look more at the whole picture rather than just the movement and angles. So this project was overall a beneficial assignment, even if the parapros were itching to yell at us every time.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:50 am