Life is about the moments

With my beautiful young soloist, Yagan Taljimarav. 10pm, After Rehearsal.

'Firebirds'

                                                                                                         Artist: Vanessa Mirza

I did this sketch last week, just releasing enthusiasm to dream and create world...Life is so worth living.

What gets you excited...

I feel like I should have written more this month, but I haven't. My apologies. life's had a little of a swirl of things apart and outside of school and choreography life...which are also a part of it though, because you can't really detach that unless you want to pretend and become like a machine or a little not human, which is the nature of some, but not my nature. Forgive the rambling sentences. I have found what I was looking for. Music. it's perfect. I need some skill to interweave this, string ideas, the 'through line' as my teacher refers to it. But the sound of the classical guitar with strings is just gorgeous, outrageously so, and I'm in love with this music, so the dance hopefully will benefit from this heart-felt enthusiasm. It's a crazy dance. Joy and smiles. I will explain. This solo is so unlike anything I've created before, and I have to keep a high level of integrity to this art way so to speak, the things I see hanging in the air that I want to craft and pull together, it's delightful but certainly not easy...it requires much finesse and patience, and I love to do things well...I'm growing in all of this and research in composition helps me infinitely...but there is still much that must be left to the artist as an individual to shape and mold...I keep seeing paper mache...it's sort of messy, but it can be created into beautiful things... Let this dance be a beautiful thing....can't wait to get to the studio!

Treasure Maps...

We've had a week long holiday and tomorrow regular school resumes...I have things chalked out that I would like to do with  the solo...finding the right music to integrate the second half is something I need to decide on still...I have all the movement material I need...now I just need to play with the spacing and timing...I did a bit of research on 'Dynamics' and the key elements seem to be energy, flow, inner attitude and focus. Inner attitude is a huge area of work for my young dancer, but he is doing amazingly well in facing the challenge. Some of the choreographic decisions I made were to cover this area that needs growth, but perhaps it's better to allow him to grow than to make safe decisions that don't expose his vulnerability. He will have at least a year to practice before this piece is performed for an outside audience...so perhaps I can take this risk and with it accept the challenge of coaching him further. Energy, is also tricky as I want a high level of sophistatication in the quality of energy...though the flow is something I can manipulate and play with more...it feels like I'm processing my strengths and weaknesses...focus connects strongly with attitude, but some shifts and some more pointed direction could help my dancer. The timing and working with the music also play a huge role on this and so I have to find the natural sync of variation without it being too forced...there are some predictable ways people work with the music and I don't want to be so easy to read, yet sometimes this could be used to give the audience a sense of comfort and ease...that can be worth exploring. Misery for mystery is not a good swap and that was some feedback I recieved at the last sophomore class showing. The dancers attitude is so crucial, and lighting too...the music has an open for interpretation feeling...so some of it is also the audience reading through their own lens of experience and understanding which I can't control...I don't mind my audience having a completely different to my intention perspective of my art...I just want it to be a platform of encounter(and explaining what I mean by this, I ask)...do audiences necessarily need to understand what they see...perhaps not...impact can affect us in many different ways, sometimes beyond an intellectual awareness and comprehension. It's about two and a half months to the Studio 7 showing...we keep working through the treasure map of clues. I have joy. This will be worth it. Smiles to your day.