Thoughts

We ended the class with a “spirit read” facilitated by one of the middle schoolers. We sat in a circle and read small segments of our letter to self. This was a letter than each person had written to his or her younger or older self. It was a beautiful collaborative group poem of messages to another time, but very much received by each of us in the present….

Posted March 13th, 2010

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the choreographed pieces are starting to take shape…

Posted March 13th, 2010

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Week 4 This was our last session before spring break, and I could feel everyone chomping at the bit to start the holiday. This week was a halfway mark for the project and we reviewed what we have created so far and deepened and honed what we have. Each group continued to develop their hand dance, adding spatial changes, timing changes and letting the hand gestures blossom into full body dances.

Posted March 13th, 2010

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“What’s amazing is my body moving fluidly one day, very controlled the next and completely creepy and dark the third. What changes in the span of three days that can take my body to such extremes?” – Jennifer Sarah photo of Paul Moore in Clay Man Being 2009

Posted March 7th, 2010

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Breanna, Skyview Middle School movement teacher, finished the dance she choreographed for the group.

Posted March 7th, 2010

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Learning to improvise with the moment to moment changes…

Posted March 6th, 2010

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We interviewed each other and created a timeline of our own life…

Posted March 6th, 2010

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week 3 Choreography in the Community….we are creating movement memes

Posted March 6th, 2010

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all hand dance groups at once (next time I’ll try the tripod!)

Posted February 27th, 2010

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trio extraordinaire

Posted February 27th, 2010

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