This is an impromptu, improvised, and oft-absurd exploration of my closet space….which basically turns into a big game of dress up.
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visit www.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visitwww.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
Short and sweet.
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visit www.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
In New York City, you find space to dance wherever you can.
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visit www.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
Today’s quick vid is an improvisation with my iTunes on shuffle. Prepared to be dazzled by the dulcet tones of Destiny’s Child and music from Dirty Dancing, Havana Nights! This has been so much fun…
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visit www.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
This is a short improvisation in both movement and guitar. The tone and color of each stay fairly consistent, and the movement is also informed by the constraints of the space. Watching the video back, I realized that I was using a lot of upper body gestures to inscribe the space around me with the texture and repetition I heard in the sound.
NACHMO! National Choreography Month 2011: In January 2011, dance artists commit to creating new dance work every day for 31 Days. To read more about NACHMO, visit www.nachmo2011.blogspot.com.
Short dance phrase by Erica Frankel
Generated by 25 photographs taken at this time, last year.
In the source pictures, in order of appearance (thanks to):
Dimitry Ekshtut
Jerry Devore
Natalia Etkin
Neil Cantor
Jason Leivenberg
Corey Smith
Leah Newman
Sasha Zlobina
Ricky Marcus
Gady Tenezer
Myself
I hope that you are enjoying warmth in this cold weather and the opportunity to relax and spend time with family. I’m performing in a show next month, and I hope I will see you! Tickets are just $5 for students!
With love,
Erica
Tickets available here:
http://vabang.eventbrite.com/
Seating capacity is limited so get your tickets early!
Three shows
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
January 14, 15 and 16
8pm
Today I accepted a challenge that I’m going to, in turn, extend to all fellow dancers, dancemakers, and artists.
In January, create something everyday. For 31 days.
That’s it! Simple, non? I found out about a cool group of choreographers (using a model from a cool group of novelists) who are taking this plunge via a blog post on the DanceNYC Junior Committee’s website. Here’s the post: http://yacdance.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/create-everyday-for-31-days/
(By the way, shameless plug alert, I serve on DanceNYC’s Junior Committee, an outrageously hardworking New York-based community of contemporaries working as dance artists, educators and administrators. Check us out, we’re looking good: www.dancenyc.org/juniorcommittee.)
So, to get right down to it, I plan to make approximately 20 seconds of dance/movement material each day. After 31 days I should have around 10 minutes of material, unless I decide to get positively prosaic and create a lot more. Stay tuned, since it’s my goal to video a lot of this to share HERE on my blog. Maybe I’ll even upload a short video each day! Would you watch it, if I did?
And a final note: my colleague at NYU, Julie (over at www.julie.wordpess.com) has requested that I blog more frequently (full stop) about what it’s like to be a dancer (shoutout, J!). I’ll take that under advisement.
It turns out that a website is a very good thing to have, since I’ve recently been extended a flattering and generous offer to produce some solo performance at a cool, historical theater in downtown New York City. The connection is directly owed to my great website (thanks, Arovel!) and probably also the awesome-sauce that is Google Search.
Long story short, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would like to make, and so I dug out (and dusted off) this old video of a piece I choreographed in 2007 as a Junior at NYU. It’s just a teaser, so I hope the end will leave you just itching for more!
Long time, no blog! I have vowed to not start a blog and not see it through, but this holiday season is really making it difficult to be a woman of my word. To stave off you hungry masses until a real post happens in the next couple of days, here is a tantalizing video.
SINecdoche Dance, a company with with I dance, has been enjoying its residence at the Greenwich House Music School on Barrow Street in NY. As a part of the “deal”, we’ve been capturing lots of photo and video footage in rehearsal. Here’s a Blackberry-shot vid of Aya Sato improvising while Belinda He snaps pics in the window light.