Leeds - LA Fitness
Present:
Heather Jackson
Bernice McBride
Eilidh Newton
Jo Small
Erica Wilson
The rehearsal began with a review of the Ganesha dance we performed as part of Bollywood Tyohar during the summer. Erica played the BT DVD on her laptop in the studio. Zoobin recapped the Ganesha story and linked some of his movements in the dance to elements of the story.
After looking at the DVD, Zoobin led a warm up and advised us that we should all be practicing our contractions to get fitter!
Eilidh and Jo choreographed a Duet while myself, Erica and Heather practiced our Quartet from last week.
EPIC FAIL: due to unforseen circumstances (my ineptitude and inability to operate my own phone) the choreography learned last Sunday was NOT disseminated to the other three members of the Quartet!
The Quartet was understandably a little sketchy after the epic fail on my part, and we had to re-watch the video to jog our memories. Thankfully Erica took the video and will (hopefully) be able to email it to us all. We made a couple of slight changes to the choreography throughout the course of the rehearsal which we will have to clear with Holly at our next meeting on 30th November. We also put counts on some of the faster sections which seemed to make them much easier to execute.
Eilidh and Jo performed their duet for the group (which was great) and Zoobin gave some input then Heather, Erica and I performed the new-improved Quartet piece which Eilidh recorded.
We all then attempted to remember the Ganesha choreography from BT. Jo and Eilidh did not perform this dance for BT, but were familiar with most sections, the rest of us needed to refresh our memories. Eilidh recorded this too to help with remembering.
We decided to book our tickets straight after the rehearsal (I did! So did Eilidh and Jo!) so we all knew we would be on the same flight.
Actions!
Everyone is to book their flights.
Zoobin will email us all the order of the show outlined during rehearsal
everyone must work on their CONTRACTIONS!
Ooh! And look! Annabeth showed me how to put the video on!
Study hard girls!
Monday, 24 November 2008
16/11/08 - Ganesha's Story
Leeds - LA Fitness
Present:
Holly Cassidy
Heather Jackson
Bernice McBride
Erica Wilson
Before rehearsal, Zoobin met with us to discuss the show in Tilburg.
For this we will be working to produce a piece on the theme on the Ganesha mythology. As we were largely unfamiliar with the story, Zoobin explained the outline to us:
Ganesha is the son of Parvati and Shiva. but was created only by Parvati.
Shiva is the god of dance, the creator and the destroyer. Parvati is the earth mother.
Shiva was away from home, hunting in the forest with his ganas and Parvati was alone in the house. She wanted to take a bath but no one was around to guard her door. To solve the problem Parvati took some earth and fashioned it into a man and breathed life into it. Thus Ganesha was created. Parvati set Ganesha to guard her door and went for her bath.
While Ganesha was guarding the door, Shiva returned and demanded access. Not recognising Shiva as Parvati's husband, and obedient to his mother's wishes, Ganesha refused. Shiva grew angry and threatened Ganesha, but still Ganesha would not leave his post or allow Shiva inside. Shiva fought with Ganesha and cut off his head.
When Parvati discovered this she was enraged and told Shiva that unless he brought her son back she would bring about the dissolution of the worlds. Shiva and his ganas went in search of a replacement head for Ganesha. The first living creature they came across was an elephant so they killed it and took the head for Ganesha.
Zoobin asked all of us to work separately and think of one or more aspects of the story to create a short piece of dance.
Notes:
Ganesha/ obedience/ guarding/ thresholds
Linear movements. Prohibitive gestures (flat mudhras?)
Horizontal motion parallel with stage front denoting threshold.
All four of us presented our individual pieces to Zoobin who commented and suggested changes. He then took elements of all four pieces and merged them together.
Zoobin recorded the full dance (around 2 minutes) so we could learn the movements.
Action: Distribute video via email/ phone message to Holly, Heather, Erica.
Present:
Holly Cassidy
Heather Jackson
Bernice McBride
Erica Wilson
Before rehearsal, Zoobin met with us to discuss the show in Tilburg.
For this we will be working to produce a piece on the theme on the Ganesha mythology. As we were largely unfamiliar with the story, Zoobin explained the outline to us:
Ganesha is the son of Parvati and Shiva. but was created only by Parvati.
Shiva is the god of dance, the creator and the destroyer. Parvati is the earth mother.
Shiva was away from home, hunting in the forest with his ganas and Parvati was alone in the house. She wanted to take a bath but no one was around to guard her door. To solve the problem Parvati took some earth and fashioned it into a man and breathed life into it. Thus Ganesha was created. Parvati set Ganesha to guard her door and went for her bath.
While Ganesha was guarding the door, Shiva returned and demanded access. Not recognising Shiva as Parvati's husband, and obedient to his mother's wishes, Ganesha refused. Shiva grew angry and threatened Ganesha, but still Ganesha would not leave his post or allow Shiva inside. Shiva fought with Ganesha and cut off his head.
When Parvati discovered this she was enraged and told Shiva that unless he brought her son back she would bring about the dissolution of the worlds. Shiva and his ganas went in search of a replacement head for Ganesha. The first living creature they came across was an elephant so they killed it and took the head for Ganesha.
Zoobin asked all of us to work separately and think of one or more aspects of the story to create a short piece of dance.
Notes:
Ganesha/ obedience/ guarding/ thresholds
Linear movements. Prohibitive gestures (flat mudhras?)
Horizontal motion parallel with stage front denoting threshold.
All four of us presented our individual pieces to Zoobin who commented and suggested changes. He then took elements of all four pieces and merged them together.
Zoobin recorded the full dance (around 2 minutes) so we could learn the movements.
Action: Distribute video via email/ phone message to Holly, Heather, Erica.
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