Navigating the gap between inspiration and creation
For our first month, we are looking at navigating the gap between inspiration and creation, focusing on the span of events starting at the point when you first receive the inspiration, to the...
Spatial Design
This month we are looking at the role space plays and the impact it has on how we stage movement and dancers, get them in and out of performance space, and create environments....
Collaborating with Dancers
This month, we are looking into how choreographer and dancer interact around and within the process of generating, selecting, and staging material and the work that contains it. I was inspired to explore...
Promises Made, Ground Laid
In her book, "Elements of Fiction Writing: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings," Nancy Kress talks about the beginning of stories making implicit promises that lay the ground for how the rest of the story...
Community
This month, The Choreography Clinic partnered with J.A.M. Sessions/Ford Theatres (www.FORDJAMSESSIONS.org) to interview J.A.M Artists on how their interaction with the community, through the Sessions, has informed or had impact on their creative...
Generating Movement
This month in the Choreography Clinic, we will be looking at how we generate movement, the sources we use for inspiration, and how we cope in those times we feel stuck and/or limited....
Negotiating the middle of our works
In her post, "The Muddle In the Middle," Erin Hartshorn wrote that the beginning serves to "set up the story, the ending pays it off, and the middle has to do everything else...In...