Creative Challenge #3 - Dance Mapping - Part 3

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CHALLENGE #3 - DANCE MAPPING - PART 3

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. In Part 3 you will develop your dance by adding travelling movements and make a map to perform them on. You will then use your dance to travel around your map. 

To do part 1 of this challenge head here To do part 2 of this challenge head here

LISTEN TO THE TASKS IN THIS AUDIO CLIP:

OR FOLLOW THE WRITTEN TASKS HERE:

Task 1: find a move that travels

For each of your different room dances, choose one of the moves that you can use to travel.

You can travel this movement in any way you like, for example:

  • you might keep repeating a movement so that it moves you forward

  • you might choose a part of the body to lead the travel

  • you could walk holding a shape you make in the dance

You will use these travelling moves in the final part of this mapping challenge

Task 2: finding a pathway

Draw a route (journey/pathway) between the rooms on your map (showing how you get from one place to another). You could join up the rooms with big arrows.

Image example of Jacobus’ route / pathway between rooms.

Image example of Jacobus’ route / pathway between rooms.

Task 3: setting up your dance map

Find a new area, somewhere where you have some space to move about a bit. This space will be your “dance map” area, you are going to create a big version of your map in this space.

Now we are going to set up your dance map and bring together all the different places you’ve looked at around your home into this one place:

  1. Stand in the middle of your dance map area and place your room pictures all around you

  2. Look at the pathway/arrows you’ve just drawn on your room map in Task 2

  3. Look at how these rooms in your home link together

  4. Now move your room pictures around to make the same layout or pattern that you see in your room map - You can place your pictures on the floor, stick them up on a wall or a shelf or you could place them on a chair.

  5. Wherever you place a picture will be the zone where you will dance the movements for that room

  6. You can use coloured tape, paper or string to mark the pathways between your room pictures

  7. You could also add in objects from other rooms to complete the map

Here is a video of how Jacobus set out his room pictures to create his dance map area:

And here are some images showing how Jacobus made pathways around his dance map using coloured tape:

pathway 1.jpg
pathway 2.jpg
pathway 3.jpg
pathway 4.jpg

Task 4: Dancing your map

  1. Go to one of your pictures on your map. Dance the moves you made for that sign/room.

  2. Using one of your travel moves, dance to the next room sign, traveling along your pathways and connecting routes.

  3. Each time you arrive at a picture, dance that room dance and then travel on to another sign

  4. Keep dancing around your map, until you’ve visited each sign and danced each room dance.

Task 5: Exploring your dance map further

Now play some music and dance your way around your map, finding different connections and interesting pathways. You can also add in any extra details you remember from around your home, for example:

  • You can extend your improvisation by adding moves inspired by memories, smells or sounds from the different areas

  • Remember the feeling of that room and add it into your dance

  • You could show someone else around your dance map and get them to join you in the dance

  • You could start at different places on your map and make a duet as you travel around your dance map together

  • Have fun improvising different pathways and seeing how different music changes the dance

Amazing! Now you’ve created a dance map of your home.

Challenge #3 Parts 1, 2 and 3 are now complete!

If you like you could send us a picture of your maps and drawings or a film of you dancing your travelling sequence to admin@corali.org.uk we would love to share it on our social media pages!

Arianna Carloni