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Acting For Dancers: Dancing with Intention, How to be a Dance Storyteller!
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Dancing is more fun when your imagination is engaged, when you feel connected to some story, purpose or circumstance. When you've rehearsed and learned the movement well enough to let it all go and just be free to go out there and dance! Your insecurities about the moves, your body, what viewers are thinking all fall away as you explore a character
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Acting For Dancers - J. Alex Brinson
INTRODUCTION
A child’s imagination is vivid, sharp, and powerful. The tools that we explore herein will ignite that imaginative fire, connecting it to the dancer’s instrument and the choreographer’s movement to make powerful, beautiful, full, and purposeful engaged dancing, or dance storytelling.
Equipping the next generation of dance artists with tools for their artistic development, we are delighted to help all dancers – from young students to aspiring professionals – become the future educated and proficient theatre collaborators who will be a choreographer’s first choice.
Dancing is more fun when your imagination is engaged, and when you feel connected to a specific story, purpose, or circumstance, and when you’ve rehearsed and learned the movement well enough to let it all go – when you’re feeling just free to dance!
Your insecurities about the moves, your body, or what viewers are thinking all fall away as you explore a character and take a journey utilizing your own very powerful imagination.
Acting for Dancers is a combination of techniques, methods, and games based on learning that comes from years of our study in the theatre with theatre artists including Moni and Mina Yakim, Frank Deal, Jane Nichols, Richard Feldman, Carolyn Serota, and many more.
FOCUS, CONCENTRATION, AND RELAXATION
photo%201.jpgMy mother-in-law is a professional golfer and often connects the success of a golfer’s putting (the short game
) with the ability to visualize the ball dropping into the hole. Before a shot is initiated, the golfer will envision the ball coming off the putter head and arcing across the green to smoothly drop into the hole.
This can work for dancers, too. In order to be successful, whether a golfer or a dance storyteller, you must have a clear mind, open and ready to receive the vision and instruction of your body instrument; this requires focused and concentrated thinking.
Have you ever considered these questions: What does the painter paint with: his hands or his brain?
Does a dancer dance with her body or her brain?
The answer isn’t just one or the other, of course. Using your body is essential, of course –
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