Thoughts and Ideas
Conversation Starter
The following words stolen from an article in the Sunday Journal " ... a group of creative rebels determined to "take art to the people". The members... agreed to divide the proceeds of their (work) sales to keep one another financially afloat." Could this be done with a few dance groups, with enough performances between them to keep up a monthly stream of income?
Musing
Can we share creativity in progress through ... virtual 'salons'? Park 'salons'? Poetry and dance, what is rhyme in dance?
Creative Experiment
Offered from an old ABQ Dance Lab exercise - Pattern and Rhyme in choreography. Take the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet, starting with the first quatrain, the pattern of the first four lines of a sonnet, ABAB, in which the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme with each other and the 2nd and 4th rhyme. Explore applying the pattern ABAB and translating "rhyme" to dance. If you want to add levels of difficulty, translate the 10 "syllables" per line in iambic pentameter (alternating emphasis) to your movement sequences as well. If you are on a roll see the link under "Escape" to find out how to continue to the full Sonnet structure. What if you assign each line to a different dancer? Stick to the rules fiercely then break the rules or create rules to follow a new direction. Explore with abandon.
Quote: "Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings" - W. H. Auden
Escape and Inspiration
Recharge through exposure
Check out design in many creative fields through the Netflix series "Abstract".
Study up on the Shakespearean Sonnet http://nebraskashakespeare.blogspot.com/2013/04/write-like-shakespeare-how-to-write.html
Amuse your friends trying to say "very virulent variant viruses vindicate Darwin" three times.
Watch the American Masters episode online https://www.pbs.org/video/twyla-moves-xovfoh/ on Twyla Tharp that ran last Friday night. Explore her creative tips in the "related to this episode" section on the same page.
Take a drive to the NM Museum of Art to see the exhibit "A Fiery Light: Will Shuster's Mew Mexico" commemorating the 100th anniversary of his arrival here. https://nmartmuseum.org/ (one of the 'creative rebels' mentioned in the Conversation starter stolen quote.)
Head for the parks in the increasingly nice weather and work on choreography in the open!
