Performance Workshop IA: Size Matters

Course Overview

This class is designed for performers with a strong repertoire of moves who want to expand the performance options currently available to them.

This 2 week workshop meets for 2 hours 2 consecutive weeks. The focus of the workshop is to help artists develop and refine new ways to work with both large and small movements in an effort to enhance their overall performance presence, repertoire and flow. This class counts as 3 sessions for the Intermediate Skills Boot Camp.

Each session will offer students new ways of considering how to make moves larger and smaller both with symmetry and asymmetry. This will include:

• flat plane buzzsaw, corkscrew, 4 beat corkscrew (if you can do 4 beat corkscrews)
• spin and antispin flat planes
• split direction buzzsaws and corkscrews
• archer weaves
• archer fountains - spin and antispin
• extended circles -- some call this one petal flowers -- with turn arounds

We'll also work on ways to move between short chain and regular chain length to improve your overall flow in performance.

Prerequisites

Students should know the following moves:

• buzzsaws
• weaves - same and split direction
• pinwheels
• butterflies
• hip reel/pinwheel combos

Familiarity with wall plane work is recommended but not required.