How Movement Makes Meaning 2019: Dramaturgy, Dance & The Development of Trajal Harrell's O Medea

Debra Levine


NYUAD J-term 2019

  • Introduction
  • Weekly Class Observations
    • Day 1 – Jan 7th
    • Day 2 – Jan 8th
    • Day 3 – Jan 9th
    • Day 4 – Jan 10th
    • Day 5 – Jan 11th
    • Day 6 – Jan 13th
    • Day 7 – Jan 14th
    • Day 8 – Jan 15th
    • Day 9 – Jan 16th
  • O Medea
    • O’Medea – Showing 1
    • O’Medea – Showing 2
  • Interviews
    • An Interview with Frances Chiaverini
    • An Interview With Maria Silva
    • An interview with Vania Doutel Vaz
    • An Interview with Titilayo Adebayo
    • An Interview with Ondrej Vidlar
    • An Interview with Trajal Harrell
  • Costumes
  • The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
  • Varanasi
    • 13 Students, 11 Languages, 1 City: What was the most memorable experience of Varanasi?
    • Sensory Sensations
    • Power and Ethics of Photography
    • Buddhism
    • Dancing On Water
    • Museum-Hinduism
    • The Death Rituals
    • A Stone Beheading
    • A Spectacle, or More
    • Aarti Ceremony
    • Life Above
    • The Marketplace
    • The Weaving Village
    • Food in Varanasi
    • The Mecca of India
    • Day 1 Vlog in Varanasi
    • Day 2 Vlog in Varanasi
    • The “Bond”
  • Keywords
  • Final Performance
  • Who We Are
  • Media Archive

Archives

  • January 2019

Categories

  • Accept What Comes Easily
  • Audience
  • Breaking the Rules
  • Collaboration
  • Confrontation
  • Costumes
  • Curiosity
  • Cut and Paste
  • Dancer or Choreographer? Who Owns What?
  • Dancing
  • Distracting
  • Does It Work?
  • Expectation
  • Exploration
  • Facing The Front
  • Failure
  • Familiar Movement
  • Fear of Being Boring
  • Form
  • Habits
  • Heaviness
  • History
  • Hoarding/Beginnings
  • How and What
  • How Can I Simplify All This?
  • Humor
  • Ideas
  • Improvisation
  • Inspiration
  • Interview
  • Keeping It Going
  • Material
  • Mirrors
  • Music / Silence
  • Originality
  • Other Bodies
  • Pacing
  • Parrot on Your Shoulder
  • Performance
  • Performance Space
  • Place or Space?
  • Predictable and Unpredictable
  • Principles
  • Questions
  • Referencing Other Sources
  • Relation
  • Repitition
  • Risk
  • Self-consciousness
  • Self-Expression
  • States
  • Struggles and Pleasure
  • Studio
  • Style
  • Technique
  • The Landscape Is There Already
  • Unfinished Business
Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019

Confrontation

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by najla


Since the day I was born, I view life as a piece of art. I enjoy meditating and observing the nature around us. I enjoy taking pictures, writing poetry, drawing, imagining, and etc. I hate copying other people and I do not enjoy conformity at all. I love to spend more time with my inner […]

Posted on January 16, 2019

Audience / Facing The Front / Confrontation / Humor / Failure

Posted on January 16, 2019 by ophelia


There was a reason for why I did not want to be the first person to walk down the runway, namely that I was not prepared. However, I decided to just walk and let the thoughts come as soon as I arrived at the end, facing the audience. There they sat: a professor, choreographer, dancer, […]