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.