jAM jAR Dance Theatre

jAM jAR Dance Theatre
Performance at The New Theatre Royal (Photography by Kyle Stevenson)

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

24/08/11-

Started with a fantastic company class led by independent dance artist Aaron Vickers!

The class concentrated on the company moving as one. I felt it was important to have Aaron there as he pushed all dancers especially myself both technically in class and as a director! The movement he used helped open up the movement vocabulary of all tue dancers!

We worked on bringing the beginning of the piece together! This was quite slow but it's important to build the work gradually and needed to start the process now!

We need to develop all the material in length and with all our characters! This was started at the end of the day with Aaron helping to propel this forward!

Claire and myself need to talk about both the structure of the work and of tomorrows rehearsal!

Might need a bucket of tiger balm tomorrow!

Location:Spring arts centre

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

23/08/11-let's get creating

Great day...

Recapped all material from previous R&D so we had separate phrases of movements again! Surprising how the material came back quite easily!

Worked on new material, the girls developed a fantastic hair manipulation phrase! I'm enjoying how everyone is getting into The character, flow and energy of the work.

We started on developing characters, writing monologues and developing group movement around it! It's interesting how certain characters monologues lend themselves to more literal movement and some more abstract! Is the literal movement only there because it's the easy way out?

Lyle made an interesting point that not all dancers need be in all the work? How would this change the rhythm of the work?

Looking forward to tomorrow with Aaron Vickers coming in to teach company class and to push me further as a dancer! It will also be great to have an outside eye for the work as dancing and directing can definitely be quite frustrating!

Location:The spring arts centre

22/08/11 photoshoot

Day one of the process and started with a photo shoot! A bit of a backward place to start as a lot of the material hasn't been touched since January and with a new dancer! The day was long but got some lovely shots, looking forward to seeing them edited (especially the sunburn) and seeing the publicity poster!

Interesting day, changed my particular view on the way the piece should be, a little worried about how many segments to te work we have and how we will puzzle them together!

Very tired but looking forward to tomorrow to get the momentum going!!!!

Great start.....


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Location:The Spring Art Centre