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The Culture Creations held space for dancers(teachers and students) to explore and celebrate difference. We practiced witnessing, creating, listening, laughing, and challenging each other and ourselves with dance, music, and visual art.
The Culture Creations held space for dancers(teachers and students) to explore and celebrate difference. We practiced witnessing, creating, listening, laughing, and challenging each other and ourselves with dance, music, and visual art.
We first learned the different ways we can move:
Mrs. Roman & Ms. Rahila's CAPE Class (2021-03-22 at 14:31 GMT-7)Clip from class: Sylvia and Annabelle are sharing dance choreography they created that was focusing on using a prop to travel.
We have practiced creating movement using many concepts:
Space( small, medium, big, low, middle, high)
Time( fast, medium, slow)
Energy( percussive, smooth, sharp, swingy)
Emotion( sad, happy, mad, surprised)
Force( strong, light)
Relationship(together, and apart, mirroring, following)
We explored dances, music styles and visual artistic practices from all over the world, and found inspiration from such different practices.
We explored dances, music styles and visual artistic practices from all over the world, and found inspiration from such different practices.
Some of the many dance and musical forms that we had learned about!
Tarantella: Southern Italy has the tradition of Tarantella, a folk dance accompanied by tambourines.
Eskita(Snake Dance): based in Ethiopia, the eskita dance is a social dance native to the Amhara region. The nature of the movement is supposed to mimic the shaking of a snakes tail.
Kabuki: Kabuki uses music, dance, and miming to share stories about royal families in Japan.
Atsiagbekor: Atsiagbekor is a dance style native to the southern region of Ghana. The musical instruments used are sogo, kidi, kagan, achimevu, and many more.
We used this class as a platform to talk about difference. Many of the dance and musical artforms were unfamiliar to us, so we noted those differences and highlighted the similarities. Our focus in the class was to be inspired by other people's and communities ways of expressing themselves, rather than copying a culture that we might not have a relationship to besides our class time. We used our movement concepts to guide us when creating projects that were inspired by such cultural expressions. This approach provided many moments of choreography, writing, and witnessing.
Annabelle's drawing of the yoga poses we did that day: cow pose, cat pose, bird pose, dancer pose, mountain pose, .
Annabelle's rocks: to her they symbolize balance and love to herself and others.
We learned about the different topography's of other countries and cities, and how they would impact the way we danced together. One of our favorite sharings we did was showing our favorite rocks/crystals and learning the meaning behind them.
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