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We did an activity which is a suppositional selling our individual props to classmates.
It was so fun and surprising by other's creative thoughts of their props. It helped to think beyond what the prop actually made for.

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The class introduced us the theme of timeline.
-Time goes and interact with the space around. Try not too think and plan first and let unexpected possibility come along to you

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It helps me to free my mind and explore unplanned creative possibility

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TIME
* chair is anchor point
* when chair moves, travelling in time
* clearer showing of minnie n bella solo
* minnie and bella solo & stanley with chair (tip: 1 by 1)
* needs more dynamic/push the choreography more
* include more elements of props ⬆️
* ending is not fixed yet
* how does the map help you => floor plan

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Possible development
confrontation —> fighting for chair ❌

chaos doesn’t have to have tension and conflict
can still fight for the chair but in the end can have resolution (minnie’s painting)
the journey we went, we were lost but we were fine with it —> a bit more lively

chair
—> represent our journey
—> bring us on the journey
—> pulling & pushing (on the bus sleeping)

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Extract and condense from just what you see
- > moving away from reality

*deconstructive

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It was a huge challenge for me because this genre of music was the one I never tried dance on but we tried to not only stick on Bollywood  dance style and incorporate our own style of dances.

Some parts are fixed choreographed but

except for that part, we planned to improvise based on associations. It was possible because we had a plan for when and what points we were expressing. Such as the part where we are in a diagonal line and show an image of a catching star (00:20) and from (01: 29) is mostly improvisation based on the plan.

We also tried to not just represent the associations but bland them in to the dance (01:21)

This project was a good chance to explore a new tool of improvisation and helped a lot to understand what is structured improv and taught us that we have a diverse way to appreciate music.

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I appreciate these classes for really helping me to start figuring out practical pathway after graduating!!

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This time I learned they are very different in mind and plan setting.

Freelancers are more open to get any chances to get jobs or shows.

Independent artists are more focused on branding themselves and make their own artworks.

If I'm not getting into a company, these can be choices to continue my dance life. It sounds a bit tiring and unstable but exciting to be an independent artist because I like to make my own arts but I'm open to getting any chances to work to grow and be responsible for my financial issues.

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We talked about body image and shared personal experiences.

The Body image issue is so strong and problematic in the dance community. Dancers are easily distracted by their body image in a negative way.

Our group was talking about this study, In Korea, based on three major dance genres which are Ballet, Modern and Korean traditional dance, the researchers did a survey on Korean students in dance major, and in all majors, they said they want slimmer bodies than currant their bodies. It shows why eating disorders are quite common in the dance community.

I never had a class to talk about this issue in schools and I and Bella were sharing experiences and could relate each other's feelings and struggles. Ms. Leia was questioning deeper and deeper to think more why this situation happened but I couldn't answer at the end because I thought it's just natural before this class. I think for now what I can do is I just focus on dance itself rather than the look through my body portions. It takes a lot of effort to change inwards and outwards mind sets but we need to still fight with the judgmental estimation for all our mental and body health.

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Our working motto was 'free the minds and go with the flow'. After that, when thoughts come along, we organize them and put them into the piece.

It's not the final version but we are planning to finish based on the feedback and our thoughts. There are quite a lot to consider but by our motto, we draft and organize thoughts based on the themes.

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This activity was an improvisation with instructions. 3 people were in one group, when one person was doing improvisation, the others were drawing or writing words that came to mind.

The last theme was isolated, being alone and in a circumstance where nobody understand me. I remember that after this class, our mood was quite depressed, drowsy and we shared each other's feeling and talked about our future in dance. It was so mentally stimulated and a interesting expression moment. I was reminded of the fact how strong these artistic activities actually influences our mind and body.

+drawings I did

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Bella, Stanly and I went on a journey based on the theme of the timeline.

We planned nothing and went wherever our feet took us and did whatever our mind wanted to do to interact with the places.  At the end, we ended up somewhere we didn't expect to be.  A journey like this, without purpose to reach somewhere was relaxing and freed my mind and widened the possibility to be more creative in this project.

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my groupmates, Bella and Stanley's painting

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With the timeline theme, my group combined each other's motives together based on the theme.

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I was so appreciative of getting a chance to share my country's cultural dance.

We tried to combine ballet to make it easier to friends who are new to this genre.

It was a good exploration by breaking the boundary of "cultural dance" and a chance to be more creative.

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This is one of the tools for improvisation.

You construct and plan improvisation by associations before you start and based on the graph, you explore the associations through your body.

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A graph for music based on music dynamics.

Based on this, we found associations and did structured improvisation.

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Music appreciation graph of the chosen music  - Bollywood

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Music appreciation graph of the chosen music  - Bollywood

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We did our individual graphs first and we combined each other's.

Each associations are
1.  Stars
2. Greeting
3. Gallops, Snake and high heels
4. Army motions - marching, drum
5. Prom
6. Salsa and grove

Our song is
Gallan Goodiyaan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEdTq3j-0U

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In this class, we were researching Singapore dance companies by groups and we shared each other.

I had no background knowledge in the Singapore dance scene and it was a very good chance to get information and realized that I need to do more research myself and keep my eyes on there. Through this class, I got interested in Sigma Contemporary Dance and planned to join their 'Open Jam' which is an improved collaboration with music and dance. I felt they support artists to express themselves.

I was also informed that we do have associations and theaters where they support dancers by lending spaces such as NICA.

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My prop was a yoga mat bag which is adjustable and light.

Through drawing this map, I was able to find more description and meanings behind this as a prob. By connecting this prop to our journey and expand thoughts.

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The associations are
1. balloon and space
2. hammer is pulling me
3. under the water

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Select a music genre and research on it as a group for mini presentation/ sharing_ Bollywood

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Select a music genre and research on it as a group for mini presentation/ sharing_ Bollywood

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by Akshu, Xue Jing, Minnie, Cody

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Research on one of the paintings by Wasslly Kandinsky (1866-1944) and identity 3-5 motifs from your chosen painting. Explore how the 3-5 motifs can be translated through simple bodily/ gestural motifs. 

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Research on one of the paintings by Wasslly Kandinsky (1866-1944) and identity 3-5 motifs from your chosen painting. Explore how the 3-5 motifs can be translated through simple bodily/ gestural motifs. 

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Painting with red spot. 1914. oil on canvas. 130 x 130 cm .

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This project was interesting and stimulated my creativity.

My theme was 'breathing' .

The reason why I chose this to represent myself was I couldn't say which thing I like, or who I am. Before the semester I had no problem  saying, "oh, I like this and I'm this kinds of person and I dance like this". But especially at this time I was maybe a bit depressed and I didn't want to label myself.

After I excluded all things, all I had left was the fact I'm still breathing no matter how I am now.

I tried to show 'breathing' through diverse visual scenes including the scene containing the meaning of breathing without verbally.

It helped me to understand what a motive means and how to show the motive throw motions.

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What can be motifs other than dance movement? 

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What can be motifs other than dance movement? 

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More trying to defend what it is, more questions come along. Such as
-as Natasha said, If I count a moment that a person just walking outside as a dance, is it dance? Is it okay to call it dance only from observers perspective? => if anything can be dance, why do we train in a certain way and there is a job called a dancer.
-Does dance should have purpose or express? Can dance really have no purpose in anyway?
-and more

I think it's more important than what the exact definition of dance itself but my thought of what dance is because it will affect the direction of my dance and I believe I'll at least figure out more about this question through my study.

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How do you want your dance education to be? 

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How do you want your dance education to be? 

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Research question on the dance community

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Research question on the dance community

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How can we establish a dance copyright system to make possible choreographers earn money whenever their works are performed such as song writers?

Ex)commercial choreographers(ex kpop dance) only are paid for choreographing the dance but not when it's being performed. On the other side, song writers get money by copyright whenever their songs are played.