jarsofclay

hey friends, since i'm waiting for my hair to dry right now, thought i might come here and share with you what i shared during our meeting today :D

1. expression matters alot, both bodily and facial

- as we venture into more genres, trying to depict different kinds of stories through our dance... we cannot by default keep to "SMILE AT THE AUDIENCE! SMILE MORE!" anymore! we need to be flexible with our expressions such that we are altogether flowing with the choreography and the music, then it would seem more appropriate. e.g. aggressive, fierce, in love, melancholic, miserable, lost.... many different types we need to learn to portray in different dances.

- like what was shared couple of weeks ago, we cannot keep up with 100% energy through the whole performance. it'll be either too boring for the audience, or we can't keep up with that kinda energy. so we need to know the dance and the music so well, and the story behind it, such that we know when to be soft, when to hit hard, when to extend, when to be nua abit... then there's a kind of journey through the dance. it'll be more interesting that way! both to the dancer and to the audience

- if we want to do something on stage e.g. acting silly, being very serious etc, since you're already on stage, might as well do it 100% all out instead of being shy and doing only 50% of it. by lacking enthusiasm and willingness in executing the action makes it even more awkward and ridiculous cos audience can tell you're nowhere here nor there! so just give it all out! you enjoy it, the audience enjoy it too (:

2. went for a ballet recital just now. not very amazing, but i thought about alot of things through the performance

- i really agree with DK about his point on being familiar with the music, keep listening to it.. something along those lines. during our syf days, when we had breaks or nothing to do, what we did was just to keep playing the music so that it gets locked in our minds. and as the music play we literally visualised ourselves doing the actions. and the more we did it together (we had partner dances then) the more chemistry we developed between ourselves. it's quite fun, cos we had so much chemistry that my partner and i made the same mistakes and stuff like that. i think peu experienced it too xD especially when we do group dances or couple dances, the way the entire show flows together matters alot. if one person is off time or you know, has a different angle or line or something, everything is messed up. there needs to be coordination and chemistry, definitely! so convicted about this. hahaha cos i'm missing my secondary school dance days so much ><

alright that's abt it. share more another time.

ps. tzelin! please post up all the names of all your favourite choreographers over here so that we all can go youtube their videos :D seeyou guys around!

love, chia