The One Minute Movement

One hour a day.  One minute of choreography a day.  Four days a week for the month of July 2012.

You know how writers challenge themselves to write one page a day... 

Four days out of the week I will choreograph a minute's worth of movement for each day.  Some days I will have a specific assignment or goal in mind, & other days I will choreograph whatever movement comes to the surface.  At the end of the week I will share little snippets of the process &/or some of the final one minute movements.

I would love to hear from you, so feel free to leave comments or suggestions.  After watching the videos, which one minute movement would you like to see expanded or developed?

At the end of the month come see my favorite one minute movements performed live at an informal studio showing.

Week 1 done!

This week I worked the most on a creation called “Wind Blown,” which had its share of success & failure.  Also did the beginnings of a partner study with Terry Crane, & created a phrase called “Project Benjamin” which I am creating specifically to be performed by my friend Benjamin Weston at a park in Georgetown (Seattle).

Here’s the original “Wind Blown” page in my notebook that sparked creation:

Here’s the page for the partner study with Terry Crane:

I’m really excited about this one because I love partnering & the automatic opportunity to tell more of a story because we have two people relating to each other on stage.  It needs more development & it seems to take longer to create longer sequences in the beginning because of the collaborative nature of partner work.

For “Project Benjamin” I just went out on the sidewalk one day & thought about how I’ve seen my friend Ben dancing down the street with his headphones on.  Ben sent me two pieces of music & I’m going to try to use one of them, expand the dance material, & teach it to him later this week.

Come back soon to see videos of the One Minute Movements!  

They are being uploaded to youtube later today.