After an intense week, with many presentations from the tutors and settling into the college, I feel more comfortable now that we are in our studios and the groups of first year students are smaller.
We were given a breif on our first day called 'To sense my space'.....
Immediately I started to think of spaces I find most exciting or know personally. This is when a stage or theatre came to mind. If I was given a space even if it was not a traditional stage, I would use this space to perform using dance such as ballet to entertain myself and others.
I understand this type of space! I understand what to do within it.
I also find it most interesting to watch dancers use the space their given with their body. It's beautiful. They dance with so much control yet very expressive and free. The stage is such a simple shape that frames the elegant negative spaces created by the dancers.
The connection between the stage floor and the dancers feet could be anywhere, it's about the use of space surrounding their body.
My ballet teacher would constanting tell us as a group of dancers to use our space.
With this personal experience in mind, I want to portray in this project, how a dancer makes use of the space given and how their awareness of their bodies causes them to be aware of their space.
Ballet West II's former dancers
