Day 112: February 14, 2011.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!! :)


I hope everyone feels the love today! :)

So I've decided I'm not going to write about anything related to Valentine's Day today.  It's not that I don't like the holiday--on the contrary, I actually really think it's a fun one!--but I just have something else that made me even happier than the insane amount of chocolate I devoured today!  Haha!

As a dance major here at school, they have us taking composition class (or choreography class); it's a full-year course as a freshman and a spring semester course in the second year.  First semester we had improvisation in place of comp and I'll be honest with you...I was not too excited about the idea of switching back to comp at the start of the new semester.  "Choreography" has always been something I enjoy, but something about the classes I've taken have caused me to stress out over accomplishing tasks more than actually discovering my own choreographic process that works best for me.  I'm finding, though, as these weeks go by and we've been given the chance do just that--to explore the way we naturally approach the development of movement--the concept of "choreography" doesn't intimidate me as much.  I'm realizing that each task we're given is simply a task...There's no right or wrong, it just "is." What "is" is able to change, movement can be thrown out as new movement develops...a set "5, 6, 7, 8" isn't necessary.  I'm realizing that the development of choreography isn't concrete.  How can it be, right?!  I mean how can something be concrete before there's really anything to work with?  That was always my biggest problem...Fearing what had yet to be developed due to premature judgements of what hasn't even come about yet, resulting in my holding back and tiptoeing around movement qualities and ideas that I may think to be uncomfortable or not "pretty."  I've been able to choreograph up until now, but the pressure I've always felt to get it "right" is starting to fall away.  And for that I'm very grateful and excited about delving even deeper into my artist's mind!  (What would I do without comp class?!)

Today, real artistic exploration and development make me happy :)