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.
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