As the day progressed I found myself more and more atuned to what was said in Trajal’s class about death, connections between events in terms having the right question for the specific time when it should be asked, how different each of us can view dance practices and re-enactments. The reason why I titled this […]
performance space/language/choreography
How does one know in what way to ‘speak’ to an audience with his body, dance movements and individual interpretation of well-known dance piece? This question haunts all day since we were in class with Trajal and some of my colleagues were performing their propositions on voguing and postmodernism as one. Thoughts on my body, […]
Principles
Reading about Martha Graham in Trajal’s class moved me immensely as I am a big admirer of her and the work she has done in the dance field back in the day. It really reminded me of the years back when I was in primary school just starting to learn about her and her dance […]
Playfulness and Exploration
Being a part of the exercise where one leads and the other follows as they are moving around the space in different ways and switching their roles was what fully engaged me in Ondrej’s workshop today. The sense of playfullness, excitement and unpredictability of what the next move of your partner or your own would […]
The Significance of Each Dancer
To begin with, Ondrej’s class today surprised and excited me in a sense of being part of the exercise ‘Second Thought’ and the one where we were split into two groups. The satisfaction from participating in the two exercises came from the fact that they provided me with a wonderful opportunity to experiment and express […]
Exploration
As a second day of class, I experienced even more content than yesterday while participating in Ondrej’s workshop as I had the chance to partner up with a great ‘leader’ during the partners’ dance exercise. What made the experience most fulfilling was the joy and excitement that the other person brought into the exercise as […]
Inspiration/Self-Exression
As I found myself entering the class this morning, what made an impact on me during the first dance workshop was the dance experimentation exercise where each of us, the students, had the chance to improvise dance movements on a music piece with our eyes closed so as to fully tap into the music and […]