Assignment leading up to November 18

  • Blog B critique of Opera Post by Sunday midnight.
  • Blog A comment on colleagues’ critique and include your own – Post by Tuesday afternoon
  • 2nd Draft of Final Presentation to be presented at Gibney Dance Studio
  • Send outline and continued revisions to Alexandra Cohn and Donna Uchizono (Paper 3 Due November 27 via e-mail)
  • Please note; Last Movement Research performance at Judson Church on November 23

 

Wednesday, November 18

Donna Uchizono Company rehearsal

Meet at Gibney Dance Studio at 3:45

890 Broadway (between 19th and 20th st near Union Square)

Sign in name and destination -5th Floor

Gibney Dance Studio, 5th Floor – Studio 3

 

 

View rehearsal 3:45-4:45

4:45-5:15 Break

5:15-7:00 view 2nd draft of final presentations (Monica Huzinec will go first as she has to return to Hunter for class)

 

 

Assignment for November 11

  • Blog A – Dsicuss Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold – Post by Sunday 10/8 midnight
  • Blog B – Choose a colleagues blog to comment on and continue the discussion with your own review. Post by Tuesday afternoon.
  • Prepare your first draft of your “Significant” study
  • You must include your two stillness poses in your study but the pose cannot be placed in the beginning of your performance. You can use music but remember you will also eventually have a recording. You are allowed props.
  • Choose one of the Monday’s at Judson Church Performance to attend if you haven’t already
  • Prepare first and second paragraph – send to Uchizono and Cohn (the earlier the better-should have by Wednesday November 11 by 3:10)
  • Read the libretto of Turandot-be prepared to discuss

http://www.murashev.com/opera/Turandot_libretto_English_Italian- read all three acts

Read notes from the Met – http://www.metopera.org/PageFiles/41061/Jan%207%20Turandot.pdf

View clips of the famous arias from Turandot

Nessun Dorma sung, in concert, by one of the most highly regarded tenors of the day: Jonas Kaufman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytkZo5dYlo

In Questa Reggia: the big soprano aria sung by one of the most highly regarded Turandot’s of the 20th Century – Swedish Brigit Nilsson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_vc_txniDM

  • Alexandra Cohn will add additional youtube videos to watchNovember 11-Meet at Cabaret Space at Macaulay Honors College-Cabaret SpaceView 1st Draft of Final Presentation of Caretaker Studies-Levi GonzalezOpera Presentation – Alexandra Cohn

     

    Performance: Thursday November 12

    Opera – Turandot Meet in lobby

    Metropolitan Opera House

    Lincoln Center

    Meet at 7

     

    Final Paper (Due November 23)

Your final paper is a five page paper (can be more if needed) that must include your experience with your artist interview-either what you learned, your favorite part of the interview, how it assisted you in seeing dance, etc.

You will need ten resources. Four of the resources should be print resources. One of your resources can be your interview and another resource can be a performance we saw as a class.

Choose one of the three following topics:

  1. A five-page paper about the economic culture of dance, the passion these artists have in being a field that has no economic stability in relation to your own feelings about that subject. Include your experience with the dance artist you interviewed.
  2. A five-page essay that informs the reader about post-modern dance and persuades the reader why dance is important and why they should attend a dance performance. Include your experience with the dance artist you interviewed.

Assignment for November 4

  • Interview panel
  • Work on thesis statement (and outline) for Paper 3 to be discussed in class
  • Read the two handouts given in class
  • Start to prepare draft of Final Presentation. 1st draft will be present on November 11 at Macaulay Cabaret Space

Wednesday November 4 – Performance

Ralph Lemon – The Scaffold Room

The Kitchen

512 W. 19th St (between 10th and West End Ave)

Meet in lobby no later than 7:30

 

 

 

 

 

October 28

Paper 2 Due

Check in on individual interviews of dance makers

Discuss Second Panel

Discuss Paper 3

 

 

 

Assignment leading up to October 21:

  • We viewed choreographer Steve Paxton, the founder of “contact improvisation” demonstrating aspects of the practice and two small excerpts from choreographer Trisha Brown. 1) “Glacial Decoy” (with sets and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg) and 2) “solo olos”-(one dancer calling out directions to the other three dancers). The video we viewed is not available on YouTube. If you need a refresher, there are some contact improvisation videos on YouTube, though they are not with Steve Paxton and not as strong. One is a video of KJ Holmes teaching a contact class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2u_BtJYdO4&feature=related There is a version of Glacial Decoy on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYkuyTAkT8 Unfortunately there is not a video of solo olos on YouTube.
  • Blog A -From the Sally Banes reading, describe in your own words what is “Analytic Post-Modern dance” and either Steve Paxton or Trisha Brown’s relationship to that movement. Post under the Blog A/B tab by Sunday 12 midnight.
  • Blog B- While adding your description of Analytic Post-Modern dance, discuss how the other choreographer that Blog B did not mention, can be considered an Analytic Post-Modern artist. For example, if you are commenting on Blog B’s discussion about Steve Paxton in relationship to Analytic Post-Modern, you will discuss Trisha Brown. Post under the Blog A/B tab by Tuesday, 12 afternoon.
  • Please send Quiz questions ASAP if you haven’t already
  • Read Deborah Jowitt – Beneath Description-Writing beneath the Surface
  • Send at least the first two pages of Paper 2 to Uchizono and Cohn by Wednesday, October 21 at 3:10. You are invited to send your thesis statement for review to Uchizono and Cohn before Wednesday October 21.

Paper 2

A 3-5 page paper comparing the differences and/or similarities of writing about visual art opposed to writing about dance. What analytical tools can be used for both? Do the two forms of art demand different analytic and writing references? Include your experience with contact improvisation as a participant or observer. Due October 29