Daily Routines - 28/2/2014

Today's class included lots of imitation, improvisation and creation of choreography. Our theme for the class was daily routines; starting in the early morning and ending till evening and night. First we created our own choreography and then we added to that variation of speed, for example, to that. Then we created with pairs a choreography together and then we presented it twice. First one was the original and the second one was, where we changed the directions for the choreography (other was doing it like in the first presentation, but the other one was doing it for some other direction).

This part was really hard for me, even though I could present the choreography in the original direction. I was mixing the directions all the time and it was little bit confusing all the time. It was even harder, because we had to present the choreography at the same time and not in the canon. All in all, I think that this exercise was extremely good and it really challenge us to think again the choreography in the other perspective. 

I also liked the class, because it wrapped around one theme. First we improvised and finally, at the end of the class, we had a ready choreography, what we could present to the others. This was a exercise, which I definitely would like to use in my dance lessons at schools in the future. If the students are not that used to improvise and imitate and it feels very hard to them, this exercise helps them to do something concrete and build the improvising for the theme. And theme can be anything (vacation, trip, work, school day, visiting friend's place etc.) This exercise has so many dimensions and you can use it many times, just changing some little parts and challenging the students to the next level every time.