Creative Challenge #3 - Dance Mapping - Part 1
We’ve come up with fun ways to share Corali’s ways of working with you at home. We’d love you to have a go and find out what you create!
If you would like to share any of your creations to feature on our social media channels email them to admin@corali.org.uk
CHALLENGE #3 - DANCE MAPPING - PART 1
Our Associate Artistic Director Jacobus Flynn has made a challenge for you which looks at the different spaces that make up our homes and builds up a dance map. Some of the skills explored in Challenge #1 and Challenge #2 are useful in this challenge.
LISTEN TO THE TASKS IN THIS AUDIO CLIP:
OR FOLLOW THE WRITTEN TASKS HERE:
By the end of part 1 you will have created:
A map of your home
A collage of one area in your home
A dance inspired by your collage
Task 1: a tour of your home
Think about all the different areas in your home. All our homes are different.
Take yourself on a quick tour around your home, naming the different areas : for example “kitchen”, “my bedroom”, “bathroom” “where I watch TV”. Even if your home does not have separate rooms, to make it easier let’s call these different areas ‘rooms’.
Task 2: drawing your room map
Now find some paper and pens and draw out a creative map of your home, showing how the different rooms fit together.
You can do it any way you like using words, pictures, or colours.
Example Jacobus’s creative map of his home
Example of highlighting your chosen 4 rooms
Task 3: choose up to 4 rooms
Now choose 4 rooms on the map you’ve drawn of your home, and highlight them (you could underline or circle them in a different colour).
Example folded card
Task 4: making a picture or collage for your rooms
Take some blank pieces of card or something that can stand up on its own. For example some cardboard from an old box. Fold them in half and stand them up.
Example of cardboard labels
Task 4 continued…
Look at your map. Write or draw the name of each highlighted room on one of the pieces of card. For example, if it’s a bathroom you could write bathroom or draw a shower.
Task 5: Look at the SHAPES & LINES in a room
Choose one of the rooms you have highlighted on your map. Now go to that room with the cardboard label you have made for it.
Have a good look around for interesting shapes and lines in that room. For example: a window, a door handle, a light, a curtain. Look for things in the room you might never have looked closely at before.
Choose one or two details that have a clear shape or line, things that you find interesting.
Here are two examples of shapes that Jacobus found in the room he labelled “office”: a ceiling light and a window blind. He liked the way the light shines through both things, highlighting the different shapes and lines.
Example of finding interesting shapes and lines
Task 6: Create a picture from the SHAPES & LINES in a room
You’re now going to make a collage or picture inspired by the shapes and lines you see in that room.
Use the cardboard label you have for that room to make your collage or picture.
Have fun with the different ways you can create your collage or picture.
For example:
You can draw the patterns that you have found
You could take a close up photograph and it print out
You could make a cardboard shape and stick it on
You could write a few words to describe it
Example of creating drawings of collages of your shapes and lines
Task 7: making movements from your picture
Place the picture you just made somewhere out in front of you. Have a good look at it.
Now you are going to create movements from the shapes and details you can see in your picture.
You could start with your hands, fingers, or elbows - like you are painting the shapes in the air. Now try drawing the shape with another part of your body, for example your head, nose, or knee.
Try out a few different ways to trace the shapes with your body. Find some moves that you like.
Task 8: making a dance from your movements
Now you have created some movements from your picture.
You can have fun with these moves and create a short sequence with them.
Just choose three or four of the movements you have made and see if they can flow together.
You can play music if it helps you to dance.
Now you can develop your dance, by playing with the movements more (improvising), or you can make a sequence (set the order)
Now see if you can learn this dance as we will use it later on in the challenge. Try repeating it to help you remember it.
Here is a short video of Jacobus making some of the moves from his “office” picture.
To make the movement he imagined:
the two opposite directions of the light
the folding curves on the lampshade
the repeated straight lines of the blind
the cord that you pull on the blind
Congratulations! Now you have made a map of your home and a picture and dance for one of the rooms.
You can develop these ideas in Challenge #3 Part 2 - head here
If you like you could send us a picture of your maps and drawings or a film of you dancing your sequence to admin@corali.org.uk we would love to share it on our social media pages!