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Movement Design/Workshop: Cristin Carole
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Court Theatre GOSPEL Movement Vocabulary & Research
Court Theatre GOSPEL Movement Vocabulary & Research
Updated 4/11/23
Goals: Creativity, Self-Expression and Form
Method: Collaborative/Constructivist/Codifying
MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS
MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS
Warm-Up: Swing, Suspend, Vibrate, Sustain, Percussive, Collapsed (“The Lord is doing a work in her”)
Rocking Songs (COGIC): Precious Memories, Come by Here Good Lord, When We All Get to Heaven (Spotify soundtrack)
The Spirit: Stationary torso legs in second upper body roll
Epaule: Feet and knees in parallel dip right and/or add arms elevated in open en haut
Elements and Principles of Movement
Elements and Principles of Movement
(Explore in workshops: collaborative & constructivist)
Level
Plane
Direction
Pattern
Dynamics
Tempo
Shape
Repetition
Contrast
Unison
Negative/positive space
Contact
^Find these elements in the video
Spatial Designs:
Locomoter
Non Locomotor
8 Corners
Fan
Windows
Cluster
Moves
Moves
(Established with inputs from the cast: codifying)
Choragos
Spirits
Citizens
Head Positions
Arm Positions
THE Walk
Capes
Processionals
Cannon
Design Opportunities
Design Opportunities
(Questions and experiments: accept and expect non-closure)
Disappearance of Oedipus
Traveling sojourn of Oedipus and Antigone
Blockage of Oedipus
“Non-capture” of daughters
The Rite
VIDEO REFERENCE
VIDEO REFERENCE
Playlist 1
Playlist 2
Gospel Movement: Research
Gospel Movement: Research
“What does it mean to face the end of who you are?” (identity, race, legacy)
Moved by the Spirit to Dance With the Lord. Contemporary praise dance practices in New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/arts/dance/04bloo.html
Bodies as Living, Twirling Sacrifices: Performing Black Girlhood, Liturgical Dance, and the Black Church Tradition
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=cultural_studies
Shared Possessions: Black Pentecostals, Afro-Caribbeans, and Sacred Music
Teresa L. Reed Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 5-25 (21 pages).https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0005
Rites of Lynching and Rights of Dance: Historic, Anthropological, and Afro-Pentecostal Perspectives on Black Manhood after 1865
Fear in Choral Action: Thoughts about a Dionysian Emotion in Aeschylean Tragedy Anton Bierl https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWhBM6-3AoiybbI1BAXXFDC2Qh0Z49zx/view?usp=sharing
Notes from Interview with Pastor Michael Eaddy on Movement and the Body in COGIC practice
Embraced West Africa Tradition, dacne in war, dance in wedding
Evidence of the presence of God within
Divinity and humanity joining together
Praising dancing started inspired by National Events
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. — Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened.”
- Maria Rainer Rilke, Letters to young Poet, 1903
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