Ladies soon we may create a forum for everyone to communicate. Also.. please submit to me a list of dates you may be out due to vacation, work, & etc. This will allow for me to plan choreography & class material accordingly. Ladies, we will not have class on May 5th! Dmitry & I will be out of town. We will have a makeup Sunday perhaps mid May.
Reminder: No Class May 5th for dance team or flamenco!
CARMEN!
We watched excerpts from Carlos Saura’s Carmen. We enjoyed sangria, Champagne, popcorn, and some appetizers! Estrellas, I think we were inspired & it showed through your work afterwards. Thank you ladies for allowing me the time to organize some of the choreography & create some formation & timing for your movements. We have the following skeleton:
Two groups: Group A: 7 walks forward (start with weight on R) on 8,2,3 step side with right foot.
Next group B: 6 walks forward, hold 7 turn to right on 8
Next: petit battement sequence, spanish lines with flamenco taps, turn prep with left foot behind, turn prep with right foot behind, change weight to right foot, slow turn to the left, end in lunge position.
Eileen will walk out for opera entrance. 2 bars of rumba timing upstage, 1 bar for turn. Open fan. 2 bars of rumba walks forward downstage. on 3 hold and turn away, continue walks in circle formation until bar 5 turn towards center. On bar 7 turn to front, start spot turn sequence for 2 bars. end on bar 9, Quick, Quick with feet together.
For tomorrows section we will review the intro & continue from there until “march” section until the end. I will start class with port de bras/braceo warm up with wrist circles. Fan work. and then moves to rumba walks and walks with envelope action. Until tomorrow…I will see you estrellas tomorrow.
We received the red fans today & music! Yeah!
As a warmup, we reviewed 8 positions of the arms & learned basic positions of the head. We incorporated wrist circles within the warmup. Wrist circles will allow us to create beautiful floreo (finger & wrist movement) and to create smooth fan work.
We worked on rumba walks with shoulder roll on slow counts. Also envelope walks.
Other items we worked on: Petit battement sequence, turn to the left, and spanish lines with flamenco taps.
Reminder: A viewing of exerpts of Flamenco Carmen and other Spanish dancing will be on Sunday, April 15th, 2007 at 4:30 PM. We will have popcorn and drinks. Following, we will have our class at 5:30 until 7PM. We will do 1.5 sessions. The following Sunday we will have the same arrangement of 1.5 sessions. This was the favor of the group from yesterdays session.
*Ladies: for those of you who have a seamstress or dressmaker who
you can recommend, please send me his or her info. I am looking for a local & reliable seamstress for the students costuming as well as for Dmitry & my costuming. Thank you
MLB
Hi Estrellas!
Listed below are the items we covered in class:
Rumba walks with figure 8 hip action
Envelope (reverse develope)
(Envelope with rumba timing: Envelope on Slow (2 beats), rumba walks on quick, quick
*Remember this is a progressive movement and we want to emphasize the envelope action with the movement of our skirt.
-Partnering exercise with maintaining focus throughout a change in arm and head position.
Fan work: Side action of wrist, keeping fan along forearm.
Spot turn to right & to left with fan work. *Remember the rotation in the feet and turning on an axis. Transfer of weight from foot to foot important.
“Simple” Spanish turn to the left. Start with preparation in pressline position.