Trajal

Introduce Trajal

Introduce the 60s postmodern dance approach to choreography (a + ab + abc + abcd + abcde + adcdef)

  • Can “a” and “c” be the same? – It depends, up to you.
  • Accumulate movement to create choreography exercise

Discuss Trajal’s dance trajectory

  • 1988 NYC postmodern compositional strategy (from 60s Judson Church) – the adcb methodology to make dance democratic, influenced by minimalism
  • 90s following Paris conceptual dance movement – conceptualization first, and then put movement together
  • 1999 Trajal meets Voguing (*see Sao Paulo article) – “once they are born, they are in drag”

Learn Choreography “It Is Thus”

Read “What is Contemporary”

Show the accumulation choreography and write on the wallpaper

HW: (1) Watch Paris is Burning (2) Read Agamben and ask if Pina Bausch is contemporary or not.