Duet

First rehearsal, first exploration, first idea = beginning!!!!!

Contact Improvisation

Duet

1st year students of Coventry University - Dance Making and Performance have already started their journey with partners through the exploration.
My partner is Ioana Dabija. Our duet was inspired mostly by work of Steve Paxton. We want to use the contact improvisation during our creation process.
Contact improvisation was developed in New York in 1972 by steve Paxton. It is a partner dance based on the physical principles of touch, momentum, shared weight.
The idea of our duet - PEOPLE LIKE PUZZLES. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution. In our opinion, people work in the same way... And we will try to prove that with the help of movements.

Questions...Duet!!! Let's do it!

Dear 1st year Dance and Theatre students ;) I have one question for You. 04/03/2011 during Choreography Workshop we had work in progress sharing of duets. As you know, my partner is Ioana. Can You write a few words or feedback about what You saw yesterday?

Trips...

Welcome to the 21st edition of the Nottdance Festival, one of the longest running and most esbablished festivals in the UK.It revisits some of the most exciting artists from the last twenty one years, whilst celebrating both established and emerging artists to showcase some of the work Dance4 has been involved in developing, supporting and commissioning over the past year.
They have created a programme that contains something for everyone; from those who may have never watched contemporary or indeed experimental work before. But all the work has something in common. They are all examples of great art...

Trips... Wendy Houstoun

On the same day 2011/03/03 we went also to Nottingham Contemporary. There was performed '50 Acts' by Wendy Houstoun.
Since 1980 Wendy has worked extensively as a solo performer and in collaboration with companies and artists whose work challenges and extends the boundaries of dance and theatre.
'50 Acts' is a physical theatre work which explores the status of older dancers, and the relationship between art and culture.

Trips...

On 3 March 2011, lot of people who are interested in arts, had the opportunity to be the part of NOTTDANCE FESTIVAL (New movements in dance). Firstly, we went to Leicester where in De Montfort University was presented 'Lea Anderson on Screen'.
There was paid attention to dance and film. How we can create dance using the scenes from film? Lea Anderson does that. It was pleasure for me to see a well-known choreographer with my own eyes. Why? Because I saw a lot of her works on DVD, but it is another feeling. In addition to this, she is one of the choreographers who inspired my and Ioana's duet.