Virtuosity:
Is just another way to help the audience to care what happens next.
Virtuosity raises the stakes to a place where the audience knows something knows something may go wrong. They enjoy watching this negotiation with disaster. Will the performer fall, or forget what they’re doing, or will they get through?
– Jonathan Burrows, “A Choreographer’s Handbook”
Dynamics: Perform in class February 18
- Create a movement study that includes three dynamic movement images. Sequence them in any way you would like. For your movement research, explore the Energy column in the Elements of Dance Graphic Organizer. Come up with three sets of opposites; and use them to create this study. For instance:
- You are trying with great difficulty to push a heavy object across the floor. (Slow and Strong)
- You are trying to flick off spiders that are crawling all over you. (Fast and midrange)
- You are a dust particle on top of a boiling pot of water. (Fast and light)
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