What personal passion does this project advance? What is your experience with that passion?
I have been passionate about dance for more than eleven years. I have taken thousands of modern and ballet classes since I was six years old, and dance fifteen to twenty hours a week. In the past four summers I have studied at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater to improve my dance technique and performance. For my senior project instead of being used in choreography, I want to find the choreographer in myself. I plan to choreograph a contemporary solo for myself, and work on making a piece with two other dancers, Hannah and Raven, at my dance studio. We will be meeting on Sundays at Dance Fremont and work on this piece until a Saturday in March when we perform it. The performance will be open to the public, and shown at Dance Fremont.
How does this project challenge you? What risks will you take completing this project? What will be your biggest obstacle and how will you overcome it?
Choreographing is a struggle for me because it is new to me. Dancing with two other people is even more of a challenge because all three of us have to feel comfortable dancing together as well as making it pleasing for the audience. We want to have weight-sharing, floor work, synchronized work as well as cannons, solos, level changes, and speed contrast. It would be effortless for us to have a trio where all three of us just danced separately the way we felt like dancing, but to make it pleasing for the audience we must connect with each other in all of these way.
We will overcome this by experimenting with partnering, practicing and revising as the work until it feels natural. Each of us will create choreography of our own and merge it into a single combination. We will use this combination is in three different ways - cannons, level changes and synchronized work. We will also videotape each of us doing improvisational dancing, and taking the movement we like from the tape and including it into the final piece.
What resources do you already have that will be useful in completing the project? What resources will you need? How will you get them?
The resources we already have are the practice/performance space and possibly costumes all supplied by Dance Fremont. We have the studio on Sundays starting at twelve until whenever we feel like our work is done. I have the key to the studio so that I can lock the front door when we leave. So far we have the music we are going to use. We will need the support of Mary and Vivian (co-directors of Dance Fremont) to help us put on the show. We will need someone to collect money that will be donated to charity, and someone to control of the music.
What will your finial result be? How will you measure and evaluate your results?
We will perform the piece at Dance Fremont in march 2010. I will evaluate the result of this on how confident I am with the piece, and how comfortably the three of us work together. My goal is to be able to choreograph in the future, and have it not be such a struggle for me.
How will you document your progress in completing the project?
We will be videotaping rehearsals, and the final performance. The rehearsals will show the work and struggle we put into the project, and the performance will be the result.
How will you present the completed Project to the community?
At the student showcase, I will show the video of the final performance and possibly the rehearsals. I will also perform my solo, and bring in the point shoes I have worn throughout my life to symbolize my dedication to dance.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Senior Project Proposal
What personal passion does this project advance? What is your experience with that passion?
I have been passionate about dance for more than eleven years. I have taken thousands of modern and ballet classes since I was six years old, and dance fifteen to twenty hours a week. In the past four summers I have studied at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater to improve my dance technique and performance. For my senior project instead of being used in choreography, I want to find the choreographer in myself. I plan to choreograph a contemporary solo for myself, and work on making a piece with two other dancers, Hannah and Raven, at my dance studio. We will be meeting on Sundays at Dance Fremont and work on this piece until Saturday (working on the date) when we perform it. The performance will be open to the public, and shown at Dance Fremont.
How does this project challenge you? What risks will you take completing this project? What will be your biggest obstacle and how will you overcome it?
Choreographing is a struggle for me because it is new to me. Dancing with two other people is even more of a challenge because all three of us have to feel comfortable dancing together as well as making it pleasing for the audience. We want to have weight-sharing, floor work, synchronized work as well as cannons, solos, level changes, and speed contrast. It would be effortless for us to have a trio where all three of us just danced separately the way we felt like dancing, but to make it pleasing for the audience we must connect with each other in all of these way.
We will overcome this by experimenting with partnering, practicing and revising as the work until it feels natural. Each of us will create choreography of our own and merge it into a single combination. We will use this combination is in three different ways - cannons, level changes and synchronized work. We will also videotape each of us doing improvisational dancing, and taking the movement we like from the tape and including it into the final piece.
What resources do you already have that will be useful in completing the project? What resources will you need? How will you get them?
The resources we already have are the practice/performance space and possibly costumes all supplied by Dance Fremont. We have the studio on Sundays starting at twelve until whenever we feel like our work is done. I have the key to the studio so that I can lock the front door when we leave. So far we have the music we are going to use. We will need the support of Mary and Vivian (co-directors of Dance Fremont) to help us put on the show. We will need someone to collect money that will be donated to charity, and someone to control of the music.
What will your finial result be? How will you measure and evaluate your results?
We will perform the piece at Dance Fremont on Saturday, (date). I will evaluate the result of this on how confident I am with the piece, and how comfortably the three of us work together. My goal is to be able to choreograph in the future, and have it not be such a struggle for me.
How will you document your progress in completing the project?
We will be videotaping rehearsals, and the final performance. The rehearsals will show the work and struggle we put into the project, and the performance will be the result.
How will you present the completed Project to the community?
At the student showcase, I will show the video of the final performance and possibly the rehearsals. I will also perform my solo, and bring in the point shoes I have worn throughout my life to symbolize my dedication to dance.
I have been passionate about dance for more than eleven years. I have taken thousands of modern and ballet classes since I was six years old, and dance fifteen to twenty hours a week. In the past four summers I have studied at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater to improve my dance technique and performance. For my senior project instead of being used in choreography, I want to find the choreographer in myself. I plan to choreograph a contemporary solo for myself, and work on making a piece with two other dancers, Hannah and Raven, at my dance studio. We will be meeting on Sundays at Dance Fremont and work on this piece until Saturday (working on the date) when we perform it. The performance will be open to the public, and shown at Dance Fremont.
How does this project challenge you? What risks will you take completing this project? What will be your biggest obstacle and how will you overcome it?
Choreographing is a struggle for me because it is new to me. Dancing with two other people is even more of a challenge because all three of us have to feel comfortable dancing together as well as making it pleasing for the audience. We want to have weight-sharing, floor work, synchronized work as well as cannons, solos, level changes, and speed contrast. It would be effortless for us to have a trio where all three of us just danced separately the way we felt like dancing, but to make it pleasing for the audience we must connect with each other in all of these way.
We will overcome this by experimenting with partnering, practicing and revising as the work until it feels natural. Each of us will create choreography of our own and merge it into a single combination. We will use this combination is in three different ways - cannons, level changes and synchronized work. We will also videotape each of us doing improvisational dancing, and taking the movement we like from the tape and including it into the final piece.
What resources do you already have that will be useful in completing the project? What resources will you need? How will you get them?
The resources we already have are the practice/performance space and possibly costumes all supplied by Dance Fremont. We have the studio on Sundays starting at twelve until whenever we feel like our work is done. I have the key to the studio so that I can lock the front door when we leave. So far we have the music we are going to use. We will need the support of Mary and Vivian (co-directors of Dance Fremont) to help us put on the show. We will need someone to collect money that will be donated to charity, and someone to control of the music.
What will your finial result be? How will you measure and evaluate your results?
We will perform the piece at Dance Fremont on Saturday, (date). I will evaluate the result of this on how confident I am with the piece, and how comfortably the three of us work together. My goal is to be able to choreograph in the future, and have it not be such a struggle for me.
How will you document your progress in completing the project?
We will be videotaping rehearsals, and the final performance. The rehearsals will show the work and struggle we put into the project, and the performance will be the result.
How will you present the completed Project to the community?
At the student showcase, I will show the video of the final performance and possibly the rehearsals. I will also perform my solo, and bring in the point shoes I have worn throughout my life to symbolize my dedication to dance.
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