Very much looking forward to our Halloween party tomorrow, so of course I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is just a little bit of fun exploring possibilities for the group dance tomorrow, if it happens; we may well be having too much fun!
Very much influenced by my fellow 365'er Nat and one of her recent doors today. She played me the song that these lyrics come from and I was hooked. Inspiration overload, full four minutes and five seconds of film played in my head. Plans to inquire about use of film in January performance. Here's a mini taste, also more playing with light and shadow after yesterday.
Another few bars added on to this today. The ending of yesterdays version was not sitting well with me so I spent some time working on the way it felt to dance. I feel very restricted in my little home studio as there were lots of traveling movements and jumps that I wanted to include so I probably wont develop too much more until I have access to a bigger space.
Further movement material developed and added to the Amelie piece I am currently working on. A little out of shot sometimes but the movement is viable. Also feeling quite stiff after 3 very good but tiring days at college :)
I've been spending quite a bit of time at college over the last few days and apart from the great feeling I get when dancing as much as possible it has also let to something quite exciting. The college puts on a few performances a year and I have been given the opportunity to choreograph something for the January show. This means I get to work with dancers bodies other than my own. I'm very excited, so watch this space.
Just to shake things up again I plan to put a short piece together to one of the themes from the film Amelie. Today's is just a little taste which may or may not be included in the continued piece but we'll see :)
Keeping on the improvisation theme from yesterday here is another one, but without me editing. I just danced and filmed and here it is.
