jeddah
08-12-2007, 07:56 AM
Hello,
I wanted to show you guys a little something I've been involved in but I am not sure about where or how to upload it. It's an eight and a half minute piece of dance in four movements called Fall of the Republic which I choreographed and was performed in London's Hammersmith Apollo Theatre some weeks ago.
I work in a predominantly Afro-Caribbean college teaching the urban element of their dance courses and the students are disaffected/marginalised etc and some youth offenders. Anyway, for their assignment in Jan of this year I set them a brief of "Exploring combat in dance using Star Wars as a stimulus". They had really worked hard last Sept on a dance I choreographed to the 5th Element's Diva Plavalaguna piece so I wanted to really challenge them with a long piece. Most of them had not even seen any of the films before and they really got into it. I wanted to take some license and not represent the fillms too much but I knew wanted to end on a climactic lightsabre fight. So the movements are 1) Zen Community 2) Dark Force Rising 3) Droid Army 4) Duel of the Fates.
They smashed it and we have been asked to perform this in many places in London including the Royal Ballet School. Anyway, I was hoping to upload it somewhere for people to have a look at but as an 8.5 min DVD rip it is quite large and besides, and I have it as a .VOB file which can be watched on a freeware media player like VideoLan. I'd really like you guys to see this as it is another take on the SW universe.
Any suggestions (i don't want to put this on Youtube really for obvious reasons)
Many thanks
jeddah
I wanted to show you guys a little something I've been involved in but I am not sure about where or how to upload it. It's an eight and a half minute piece of dance in four movements called Fall of the Republic which I choreographed and was performed in London's Hammersmith Apollo Theatre some weeks ago.
I work in a predominantly Afro-Caribbean college teaching the urban element of their dance courses and the students are disaffected/marginalised etc and some youth offenders. Anyway, for their assignment in Jan of this year I set them a brief of "Exploring combat in dance using Star Wars as a stimulus". They had really worked hard last Sept on a dance I choreographed to the 5th Element's Diva Plavalaguna piece so I wanted to really challenge them with a long piece. Most of them had not even seen any of the films before and they really got into it. I wanted to take some license and not represent the fillms too much but I knew wanted to end on a climactic lightsabre fight. So the movements are 1) Zen Community 2) Dark Force Rising 3) Droid Army 4) Duel of the Fates.
They smashed it and we have been asked to perform this in many places in London including the Royal Ballet School. Anyway, I was hoping to upload it somewhere for people to have a look at but as an 8.5 min DVD rip it is quite large and besides, and I have it as a .VOB file which can be watched on a freeware media player like VideoLan. I'd really like you guys to see this as it is another take on the SW universe.
Any suggestions (i don't want to put this on Youtube really for obvious reasons)
Many thanks
jeddah