Thoughts and Ideas 8/7

Written By ABQ Dance Connect

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Break it down. When we set about to teach or learn a choreography we breakdown the whole into steps or phrases. We may start at the beginning, middle, or end. But we break it into bite size portions. So why do we forget this strategy so often, leading to snowballing anxiety through procrastination, in other parts of our lives? Discuss the strategies to alleviate anxiety and get you in your comfort zone - moving - that you can mine from your dance discipline. Steps, timelines, micro exposure, rehearsal, progression, building blocks, etc.

Creative exercise

Examine a micro achievement and break it down into steps: Getting out of bed, for instance. Make it a choreography. Identify a follow on activity.  Examine, break it down, then choreograph it. Put them together. If desired choreograph anxiety.  Look at the activity you keep putting off. Examine it. Break it down. Do the first step. Riff on the idea in choreography with avoidance, anxiety, and micro steps. Discuss.

Escape and Inspiration

Upcoming Dance:

  • October 10th - 11:30-1pm - NDI Artist Resident Lillian Barbieto is offering a free Countertechnique class and lunch discussion. For more information on Lillian and the residency program click here. 

  • Oct 24th-Nov 2nd - UNM's Fall Student Dance Concert Vorsicht at Carlisle Gym. 

  • Oct. 18th-20th - Festival Albuquerque Ballet will present Sacred Journey's V at the NHCC. 

  • Nov. 1st-9th - Keshet Dance Company will be performing A More Beautiful Question mixed repertory new works

  • Nov. 15th and 16th - Yjastros celebrates its 25th anniversary at the NHCC

  • Road trip and dance: Oct 18th - 20th - Take class at the Sante Fe Railyard with Muisa-kongo Malonga, one of the premier Congolese dance teachers in the country

Music:

  • Catch the music and folk dance at Popejoy this Sunday in 'Sugar Skull! A Dia de Muertos Musical Adventure

  • The NM Philharmonic will kick off their Power Concert series with "Bruckner Meets Sci-fi Sunday Oct. 13, 3pm, at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle Blvd SE. The prior evening, Saturday at 8pm, pianist Olga Kern joins the NM Phil at Popejoy Hall.

Theater:

  • Oct 13th, 3pm - Fusion Theatre Company presents 1st Street Cabaret featuring Albuquerque's finest talent, lineup TBA

  • Oct 18 - Nov 3rd - The Vortex presents  What the Constitution Means to Me  

  • Oct 18 - Nov. 10 - Adobe Theater presents Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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