choreography/phrases Haiku Deck

Published on Nov 18, 2015

DogWork-creative to understand crafting choreography and artistic performance, work to understand phases

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE PHRASE

THE BUILDING BLOCK OF CHOREOGRAPHY
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the team's movement,
the raw material ,
conceptually tooled to express intents
builds phrases

Movement is a language and an expressive medium for DogWork choreography.
Movement in DogWork is defined as:
* the dog's movement
* enhanced by the human's movement
to illustrate training and the resulting team relationship and artistically expressed in performance of creatively crafted Presentations
organized with music
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CONCEPTS, CREATIVE TOOLS

THE DOG, THE INSPIRATION & FOCUS
Movement is crafted choreographically with music.
Choreography is organized with music using concepts as tools. The inspiration and objective of each presentation is the dog, his training and his working relationship as a member of a team. Each Presentation is unique and illusrates the dog, his training and the team's relationship to the dog and/or the team to its best advantage in a creative and artistic manner.
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MOVEMENT PHRASES

craft movement with music
Phrases have a preparation, a behavioral action followed by a natural closing to either to repeat the sequence again or to use the ending to begin a new movement thought.
Phrases like sentences have a supporting structure.
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movements like words are not just thrown together
willy nilly

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PHRASES & SENTENCES HAVE FORM

And communicate information
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The movement phrase is :

About intents , attributes & qualities
Movement phrases link similar intents together into choreographic parts
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PHRASES HAVE

A beginning, middle and end
The beginning of a phrase is a preparation for the action to come
The middle is the actual action, a behavior and/or a quality to clarify the intent of the phrase
Once the action is completed. The movement has to be completed; to come or draw to a natural closing. The phrase will either be repeated or transition into another phrase or sequence of movements.

Phrases as choreography's building blocks link similar phrases together into choreographic parts. When phrases and/or parts are artistically expressed, information is communicated non-verbally.

characterized by
a shape
a rhythm
a dynamic
&
a behavior or a quality
as an intent or a reason


to be successful artistically
a phrase must have an intent
&
two other relationships
in
space, time or energy

To achieve artistry successfully a phrase must have an intent and at least two other characteristics or the performance will be seriously impaired.

Concepts are
artistic and creative tools
to craft choreography
&
to express movement

Concepts are listed in the Learning Resource Center and the Judging Protocols. The concepts are drawn from generally accepted interpretations of movement theories, aesthetic principles and rules for creating or crafting choreography. Many of the listed concepts are already included intuitively and understood as common sense. It is important to accept the listed concepts as aids to create and support artistic performance. Both creativity and artistry are requirements in CanineFreestyle DogWork.
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Similar intents
grouped together
into parts with music
create
choreographic
unity

Parts with transitions
Flow smoothly
logically & intuitively
for
continuity

movement phrases
fuse
time & energy
dynamically
to artistically express
objectives & intents

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A movement phrase, a series of movement combinations similar to a sentence

Movement speaks
through
perceptions
of
time, space & energy

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Phrases have
A noun-the intent
A verb-the concept,
the motivating tool
With an
Adverb or adjective-the descriptive quality to dynamically express the intent

Add punctuation

  • A comma, semi-colon
  • A period
  • Question mark
  • Exclamation point
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Phrases are developed by
rhythm changes,
fragmentation, augmentation & reversals
with repetitions & contrasts

PERCEPTIONS
are experienced
by spectators
mentally, visually and kinesthetically

The Presentation
Similar intents organized
into parts
With transitions for continuity
Formatted with music
performed before others
A test illustrating
Training & relationship