Catching Up

I've been swamped by the semester, and haven't gone to any performances outside of the Department this fall!  

However, I've been doing plenty of writing about dance.  One of the classes I was taking this fall was called Dance: The Phenomenon, and over the semester, we studied one dance in great depth and from a number of perspectives.  We wrote a description of the work, we learned part of the dance and then wrote about what we learned of the dance from a somatic/autobiographical perspective.  We researched the dance from a particular theoretical angle, and wrote a review of literature surrounding the work.  We taught a 2-part lesson on the dance to a Dance Appreciation or Intro to Dance class.  And finally, we put all of our writing together in one big paper about the dance.  Whew.

The dance work I studied was One Flat Thing, reproduced, by William Forsythe.  Specifically, I studied the version on the Synchronous Objects website (www.synchronousobjects.osu.edu), but you can also watch the dance here (this is Part 1) and here (this is Part 2).  This version is the dance for camera version, directed by Thierry de Mey.

Stay tuned--I'll be posting some of my smaller pieces of writing I did on this dance throughout the semester.