Another of the pieces I proposed to make this year is a dance integrating choreographic choices in tap and contemporary dance. As of now, it is a duet that I am creating with another dancer, she being the contemporary dancer and myself the tapper. This particular dance has given me the most worry as what I outlined just now is all I really know about this dance so far. I don't have a greater idea or anything like that, just that I want to integrate tapping in some way. Megen and I got together today and I tried two things to get us started. First, we just improvised in a fashion familiar to tappers, but not completely unfamiliar to other styles of dance. We "traded 8s" back and forth, both focusing on direction and quality of movement, as well as rhythm. I took some of these passes and edited them beside each other so I could see correlations and patterns emerge, possibly helpful in later choreography. I also created a rhythm in which we each danced in some fashion and then put those phrases side by side. The video below are some of the results!
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