Labelling Videos

On the Siobhan Davies Replay Archive the videos of dancers doing improvised work are labeled in a specific way. They take the initials of the dancer and then add numbers to it. Therefore if 'Tracy Smith' had two videos of themselves, they would be labelled TS1 amd TS2 etc. If there were two dancers 'Tracy Smith' and 'Kerry Drayton' it would be TSKD. I have decided to label my videos in the same way as I find this a simple way to keep track of what videos are what. I have also decided to put key words in the title like 'solo' or duet' etc.

Siobhan Davies Replay

I have been introuduced to Siobhan Davies Replay, a dance archive of all her work. Its one of a kind and contains not only videos of her full works but also information on her dancers, theirs thought or stimuli and short clips of their improvisation. It is based on this that Istarted my own blog where I could collect together my inspirations and thoughts, aswell as clips of me doing both improvised choreography and also phrases from class.

Feedback for SO dance phrase 2

This is a video of Rebecca Curtis giving me feedback on a dance phrase we did (SOJMRC2). It was very useful as the information could be translated into all the dance movement I do. In particular the thing about my ribs. I don't do it all the time but sometimes in rises or swinging movements when the arms are above my head my ribs jut forward and I neeed to be more aware of this.

Feedback for SO 1

This is a video of Rebecca Curtis giving me feedback on my solo. I found the feedback very useful and I appreciate it very much. I agree with everything she said and will look more into these suggestions in the future.

Chair Duet SORC

This video shows me, Shannon O'Dowd and Rebecca Curtis performing an improvised duet with a chair. This is a video of when we did it in the studio. We also tried it down a narrow corridor and down the stairs. I found that in the studio we were more focused on the chair rather than our surroundings. This had pros and cons. On one hand we were focused on the task at hand and we didn't have to worry about lack of spaace, yet on the other hand, sometimes we had 'sticky' moments when we weren't quite sure what to do, we just had to keep ploughing through it.

Duet SO.AN-J

This is a video of me, Shannon O'Dowd and Alex Noel-Johnson. We are doing an improvised duet, thinking about the connection between certain body parts, in this case the head and the knee.There are some moments in it that are interesting to watch, but for the majority I felt like I was thinking too much about what to do rather than just doing it. Also I need to be more aware that when I'm on the floor I'm not just sliding around.

Duet SORC

This is a short video of a contact improvisation duet between me, Shannon O'Dowd and Rebecca Curtis. It's not very long and although there are some parts that are a bit rough, there are moments that flow really well. We haven't worked very much on contact improvisation so this surprised me even more as there are certainly some parts that work very well. The funny part is that even though it was improvised, we have worked together for a long time so at one point we both 'knew' we were going to do a lift we both know.