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Creativity & Choreography for Aerialists Now–Oct 17
Posted September 22, 2009
Note: Posted as, and when, received.
CIRCUSTENTIALISM: Creativity & Choreography for Aerialists
This six-week series is a chance for aerialists to develop their creativity and choreography, exploring sequencing, transitions, composition, and stage craft in the creation of a piece. Each class teaches a sequence of movements on a different piece of equipment (silks, trapeze, lyra, corde lisse, or cloud swing) and then goes on to apply these movements in the context of an exercise. Exercises include duo and solo work, choreography, improvisation, musicality, and stage presence, and emphasize the experience of transforming tricks into dance and acrobatics into art. Students will finish the course with a composed piece of choreography as well as expanded knowledge of technique and a deepened connection to their own creative voice and expression.
Each class stands on its own, and it is not necessary to attend all six classes to get the benefit of this course. Neither is it necessary to take the classes in order, although the classes do build upon and inform one another.
Week 1: INTRO TO CIRCUSTENTIALISM
Creativity, choreography, and the experience of aerial dance
Week 2: PRESENCE
The secret to powerful performance and an amazing experience
Week 3: FLUIDITY
Transitions & fluidity—Finding your way from A to Z with pleasure, grace, and beauty
Sat 9/26—Week 4: SPACE & SHAPE
Double & single trapeze & lyra
Working with the figure to create shapes and poses, using the body to effectively craft space and time. We will work through a series of movements articulating the incredible range of shape revealed in the human body, focusing on doubles work and working with fluid transitions between poses.
Sat 10/3—Week 5: MUSIC & TIME
Trapeze, lyra, & silks
This workshop will focus on musicality, transforming aerial acrobatics into aerial dance. A sequence will be taught and then adapted to suit the various pieces of equipment, giving students a chance to adapt and expand the choreography to suit the music, allowing the body to flow naturally. We will also work with musicality and improvisation, working with the difference between articulating prefixed choreography and free-flowing through the experience of dance.
Sat 10/10—Week 6: CREATIVITY & CHOREOGRAPHY
Trapeze, lyra, & silks
One of the core classes of this series, this course is a chance for students to find their own creative voice, learning the creative process that goes into choreographing aerial dance. We will discuss the six viewpoints—space, shape, story, time, emotion, and movement—and then go on to a series of exercises in creativity and choreography. Students will finish this class with "finished" piece, a work in progress, which they may continue to develop in other workshops or on their own.
Sat 10/17—Bonus Class: STYLE
Trapeze, lyra, & silks
Find your voice. Define your style! Aerial acrobatics can all too easily become a string of tricks, which quickly becomes boring both to the audience and the performer. In this class, you will have a chance to explore what makes your own personal style of dance unique, identifying certain characteristics of movement and working towards refining these embellishments. Students will work with various ways of expressing and articulating both specific and abstract emotions, from small details such as fingers and toes to the overall effect of the dancer's personal style.
Open Level, some aerial experience suggested
Please wear comfortable fitted clothing (dance or yogawear is good) that covers the back of the knees and waist area , and bring a long-sleeved shirt (for drops!)
When:
Now through October 17
All Saturdays
4–6pm
Where:
The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street
Brooklyn, NY
(L train to Grand St)
theskybox.org
541-941-4834
Fee:
Sliding scale: $20–$40
Contact:
Seanna Sharpe
thecircustentialist@gmail.com
541-941-4834
More Information:
theskybox.org
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