Battlegrounds Performance
Who am I looking at?
This is a link to my performance with IMDC. In September/October, we travelled to Melbourne Australia because we qualified for World Supremacy Battlegrounds, representing New Zealand.
What do I see?
Our dance consists of 4-5 different hiphop dance genres in a 4 minute set; Krump, waacking, new school/swag, new school/naynay and locking. Personally, I think the first half of our performance was the best. Dancing in the krump required hard, fast, strong body movements. When I was dancing the krump set, the thoughts in my head were "buck, loud, angry, confident, agressive" and thats what I was trying to get across to the audience. In the waacking segment, our movements were quite feminine.
Parris Goebel's Moon Child
Who am I looking at?
Here are some snapshots and short videos of the Parris Goebel's "Moonchild" showcase. I could only get small snippets of the show because we werent allowed to film but overall, it was a pretty good show. It was about a man and a woman who come from two completely different worlds and fall in love. Their worlds end up tearing them both apart and ultimately they end up dying trying to stay together - so a Romeo and Juliet type story. Im really disappointed I wasn't able to capture any more footage or shots than I would have liked to. I also didn't have alot of memory on my camera because I was using the snapshot camera, and the battery was running flat as well.
What do I see?
I'd noticed that in their sets, they had quite alot of contrast in their body movements depending on the type of feel they were trying to get across for a specific scene. There were soft, flowy, smooth movements used in the contemporary, slow jam & couple set pieces alongside slow and intense, heart-felt music. These movements were contrasted with more energetic, powerful, sharp and strong movements in the dancehall/reggaeton and waacking pieces. I think they were used to show power and combined with fast, upbeat, loud music. I think my favourite part would have to be when two dancers were using the rope/ribbon hanging from the ceiling to dance. Their body movements were very smooth as they moved gracefully up and down the rope, sealing their performance with a final kiss.
How does this relate to my idea?
I think that the smooth slow movements during the contemporary Throughout their performance, I was thinking that they must have alot of upper body strength to be able to hold soft, smooth movements in mid-air for that long, while also being able to hold their entire body weight on a single piece of cloth hanging from the ceiling. I think for my experiments, I should investigate with slow, smooth movements of waacking alongside slow music and contrast them with hard, fast, strong movements with more up-beat type music.
What do I see?
Our dance consists of 4-5 different hiphop dance genres in a 4 minute set; Krump, waacking, new school/swag, new school/naynay and locking. Personally, I think the first half of our performance was the best. Dancing in the krump required hard, fast, strong body movements. When I was dancing the krump set, the thoughts in my head were "buck, loud, angry, confident, agressive" and thats what I was trying to get across to the audience. In the waacking segment, our movements were quite feminine.
Parris Goebel's Moon Child
Who am I looking at?
Here are some snapshots and short videos of the Parris Goebel's "Moonchild" showcase. I could only get small snippets of the show because we werent allowed to film but overall, it was a pretty good show. It was about a man and a woman who come from two completely different worlds and fall in love. Their worlds end up tearing them both apart and ultimately they end up dying trying to stay together - so a Romeo and Juliet type story. Im really disappointed I wasn't able to capture any more footage or shots than I would have liked to. I also didn't have alot of memory on my camera because I was using the snapshot camera, and the battery was running flat as well.
What do I see?
I'd noticed that in their sets, they had quite alot of contrast in their body movements depending on the type of feel they were trying to get across for a specific scene. There were soft, flowy, smooth movements used in the contemporary, slow jam & couple set pieces alongside slow and intense, heart-felt music. These movements were contrasted with more energetic, powerful, sharp and strong movements in the dancehall/reggaeton and waacking pieces. I think they were used to show power and combined with fast, upbeat, loud music. I think my favourite part would have to be when two dancers were using the rope/ribbon hanging from the ceiling to dance. Their body movements were very smooth as they moved gracefully up and down the rope, sealing their performance with a final kiss.
How does this relate to my idea?
I think that the smooth slow movements during the contemporary Throughout their performance, I was thinking that they must have alot of upper body strength to be able to hold soft, smooth movements in mid-air for that long, while also being able to hold their entire body weight on a single piece of cloth hanging from the ceiling. I think for my experiments, I should investigate with slow, smooth movements of waacking alongside slow music and contrast them with hard, fast, strong movements with more up-beat type music.
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