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Week 12 - The Programme Note
This document provides guidance for students on developing ideas for dance technique and digital performance works. It suggests considering themes, emotions, experiences, symbols, physical elements, and technical frameworks to inspire ideas. Students are prompted to explore visual elements, locations, objects, colors, music, and sound. The document offers starting points such as intentions, previous works, movements, or issues/concerns. Students are asked to generate title suggestions and engage in stream-of-consciousness writing. Keywords, movements, use of space, dynamics, and relationships should be analyzed to develop the idea. A programme note of 200-400 words should concisely describe the core idea, look, structure, and credits.
Week 12 - The Programme Note
- 1. The Programme Note DANCETECHNIQUE AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 2. Where did youridea come from? Themes Emotional Experiential (speed/transformation/flight) Symbolic (feelings/metaphors) Physical (water/earth/gravity) Action (gesture/climbing/running/falling) Formal/Abstract Technical framework (camera in motion/speed on screen) Restrictions (body parts/continuous zoom/looping and repetition) Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 3. Where did youridea come from? Visual Location Object Clothing Colours Aural Music/narrative Sound/image Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 4. What was yourstarting point? Intentions to explore A previous shot Another work of art (score) Movement idea Camera/editing technique Location Issues/concerns Theme/formal/visual/aural Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 5. Titles Come upwith 5 suggestions for your work The body as landscape Reflection/refraction Collision course Fractured view A textured surface Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 6. Stream-of-consciousness writing task Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.) Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.) Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.) Lose control. Don’t think. Don’t get logical. Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.) (Goldberg, 2005, pp. 10-11) Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 7. Developing your idea Keywords Actions – what are the key movements? Space – how is the space used? Dynamics – what qualities are key to the work? Relationships – how do the people/objects/spaces work together? Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance
- 8. The Programme Note A concise expression of the core idea A description of the look and atmosphere of the work Idea of structure Details of soundtrack and other credits 200-400 words Week 12 Dance Technique and Digital Performance