Week 8 – RSVP

R –  Resources: Resources we have at our disposal, these include physical and material things, and how they influence our dance.

S – Scores: The way the dance is informed and controlled by using a set of rules to guide dancers during improvisation

V – Valuaction: The purpose of an action, and how it helps the improvisation.

P-  Performance: The way the dancer presents the scores and the style of the improvisation.

Circle the earth scores – 

to be aware of our own dancing and the dancing of others around us, how we interact with these are create interesting relationships.

Halprin used over 100 people, some with no dance background, she spent years researching the patterns that were made by the large groups moving when given a set of rules. These rules gave the performers a way of sustaining a delicate balance and gave enough guidance to move the bodies safely through the space, Halprin aimed to remove the rigid movement to give more ability to the dances so they could move more freely.

Scores of circle the earth –

1. Preparation
2. Rising and Falling – started by laying down, and rose (creating relationships on the way up, once standing they would notice the other dancers in the space)
3. Snake Dance – The group would attempt to find a sense of awareness with each other and try to create a line of imagery
4. Confrontation – Dancers would wear white masks and use aggressive movement and feelings to create a feeling of confrontation.
5. Restoration – Dancers would use contact improvisation to comfort and hold each other.
6. Bridges and passages – Pathways were created for dancers to go through, observers would sing or dance around this.
7. The Earth Run – The dancers would run in circles for their own cause of their own choice.
8. Peace Wheel by Terry Riley – Singers would all  be centre while turning slowly, as the dancers would dance in circles around them, whenever they came face to face one of the Singers they would replicate the notes sung back to them.
9. Bird Transformation – Dancers would listen to specific music and dance as birds around the space.
10. Action and Commitment – Dancers would write a statement of peace which would then be brought back up a year later.
11. Peace Bird.

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