January 20th, 2012

It's weird to write 2012. Really? It's 2012? When did that happen? I remember reading 1984 in 1983. Or thinking about the year 2010 in 1976. It has a nice ring to it twenty twelve. It's the double tw. Anyway.

Day 2 (ooh another tw) at the Bockenheimer depot.

 Once again class was great. I feel like my old, and I mean OLD, dancing self again.


Bill started with the new piece. Trying to put together what seems to be a group section. Let me try and run through all the variations they layered.

Using :
12 points of contact from a "tangle" with a partner.
Dropping points
Collapsing points
Going to points
Bringing points
Mapping
Inverse Kinematic
Locomotion
Torque limits
Surface approaches
Following

Original
Starting with your parnter after finishing three points of contact you move to another person. After moving to four people you follow the person with whom you had the least contact.

Remember who you had contact with and where.

#2
Choose your own order depending on who is furthest away from you as to where you go in space first and do the exercise.

#3
Make your own rule.
Who was the last person on your right?
Who was the person midway between the 1st person and yourself?
Etc..
Do the exercise.

#4
Turn to what direction you think you approached someone.
Approach the spacial form in the facing that you end up in on the next person.
Do the exercise.

#5
Condense the whole thing to a small space still trying to accomplish the exercise.

#6
Back to the original

#7
Now back to facing changes but skip ahead on part of the sequence and locomote by skipping.

#8
Add two "stork" poses with all of that.

PHEW!

Some things worked some didn't but no one gave up. They just kept trying. They are amazing!!!

Then lunch.

After lunch Bill worked on the new trio which now is entitled Newo.

He put on Bach's concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. They played with some spacial stuff and put the Bach back on. And with replacing a leg with an arm or vice versa 1/2 the time.

It was pretty magical at points.

Then they worked on a little tendu fugue.

Then they were done.

Another great day.