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Find Me in Here. Anna on "solos".

So in last week’s rehearsal, we started working on our solos. I was really feeling a need to move. So I tried to make “big dance.” Chelsea wasn’t there, but I was trying to channel her because she always makes beautiful big full movement.& nbsp; My movement usually tends to be awkward maybe. I like to make things that feel weird or that I think will look weird. Not pretty. So that said, I was struggling with the genuiness of the solo representing me. But I think I will stick with it. Push myself a different direction. Still the solo is not going a necessarily pretty route, more just a space filling and big moving route. The beginning creations are a lot about throwing yourself around and momentum. I like it too.

We also played more with the teaching phrases without the teacher speaking to the learners. I got to be the teacher and it was a very interesting process. It was hard because my movement wasn’t about hitting shapes but about throwing weight and momentum. So for the other dancers it wasn’t about finding the right placement, but about the quality of the movement. That was really hard to convey with no words. Also, I found being the learner to be a lot more fun. It got boring for me to do the movement over and over thinking that yea they got it well enough even though they were still f iguring stuff out. I like being engaged in the figuring out more.

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