DANC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Twyla Tharp, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham
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Determine how you think that the gestures + movements are linked after the most complete analysis of the core gesture or bundle: analysis of the possible inter-relationships can begin. Movements being where the core movement ended + traces itself back along the same spatial tract until the beginning: body part repetition. The general spatial pattern is repeated by another body part: divided repetition. Take part of a gesture and only repeat that part: spatial repetition. Involve performing a certain gesture in one position and then repeating it in another position. Simplest basis of developing movement through manipulation: duration variation. The duration of the repeated movement is either elongated or shortened: expansion or diminution. Gesture that first appears small and then enlarges. Increases + releases: doris humphrey (1950s) says the most difficult choreographic decision is how to end a work, ternary form of arrangement.
