As I sit here relaxing at the computer here in the library on campus, I'm reflecting on Jazz last Thursday. Like many classes it was a little while before we started as we were waiting to see who all would show up. It was not too small this time. We had five this time, which is pretty good considering.
This time, we focused on more floor moment, starting on the floor and striving to stay there. In essence, we were glued to the floor. That was the best way to imagine it in order to put the movements in pirspective. Prior to some of these movements, we focused some of our stretching on the abs and back. It takes a lot of core strength to smoothly keep youself "glued" to the floor when you're dancing! It's quite the incredible challenge to maintain this in a way that is not chopping or rough. The tendency was to fall into the floor rather than roll into it in such a way that allows gravity to do most of the work. In a way you really have to think about it when you are trying to control your movements on the floor!
Though it was a challenge doing those phrases, I enjoyed it! It gave me a new appreciation for what it takes to do what may appear to an average observer a fairly simple movement on the floor. It's looks easy because the dance has a lot of strength, and especially controlled movements.
After we did that we just mainly spent some time working on one of our latest choriographies. The movements were rather fast, and these past few weeks I've overextended my leg on some of the moves. This time I really tried to focus on control more rather than height! That will come in time!
As we started to wrapped up, we discussed what we would be doing for our final performance. The assignment is for each of us to take four to eight eight beat phrases and choriograph them on our own to some music of our choice. This is an exciting oppertunity to colaborate on our final performance! Although, this past week, I must admit it's been a real challenge trying to put some phrases together! I can picture a lot of choriography, but I can't execute a lot of it! So, I'm trying to focus on somewhat simpler movements that I like, but can also execute confidently myself. This is key, as I will have to teach it to the rest of the class on Thursday! So, I still have a lot of work to do there, but I'm enjoying it!
And I suppose that about does it for this entry!
Art without it's challenges and complexities is not art at all,
The Dancing Devil Dog
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