Inspiration for Solo Performance
Types of Solo Performance
From the list I have highlighted the
types of performance that I want to use for my solo, for example, monologue,
hip hop dance, contemporary dance, spoken words, music(for dance/ as background
music), musical or singing.
Idea of Solo Performance
I want to combine spoken words and dance at first, but I find it so hard to me and I can't and don't know how to edit the background music with the song I want to use for dance together. Therefore, I change it once I found out that I failed to edit the song, but the idea about "Mom's Love" still remain. Finally, I confirmed to combine singing and Contemporary dance for my solo performance.
I want to use "Mom's Love" as the theme of my performance that I wish to perform a piece of solo for my mother few years ago. Appreciation of what's my mom done for me, like raise me up, guide me, support me. "Mom" is the core for the performance.
What is Contemporary dance?
Contemporary dance is the first choice to include in my solo performance.
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classic ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. This dance genre is often done with bare foot. Contemporary dancer can be performed with many different styles of music.
Pioneer of contemporary dance include Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. These contemporary dancers all believed that dancers should have freedom of movement, allowing their bodies to freely express their innermost feelings.
I heard about Contemporary dance but I don't understand this dance. This show gave me a deep impact of Contemporary Dance. I realize that Contemporary Dance is more impress to me than Hip Hop Dance. "So You Think You Can Dance" change my view of Contemporary dance, from negative view to positive view. The dancers of this competition are strong techniques and express their feeling intensely through Contemporary dance.
She is the people that inspired me to do Contemporary dance. Her name is Jennifer Teoh See Ngar, my first and only Contemporary dance teacher. She has strong foundation and she is able to express her feeling with dance and also through the song. I wish I could be like her one day.
A dance routine from So You Think You Can Dance, by Travis Wall. This is a piece of Travis to his mother. This inspired me to have this solo performance. I want to show my love to my mom through dance.
Video that I get my idea for my dance routine from. The feeling and emotion of this dancer is good. I wish I can have the ability to express the feeling like her into my performance.
Song Name:手印 Hands
This is the video that inspiration of my idea for my solo performance. The storyline and the meaning of this video inspired me to choreograph and express my love and feeling to my mum through dance and singing. I used this song for my dance and singing.
I choose a mandarin song because is my tongue language. The lyrics are more understandable and I can feel more through the lyrics.
This song is so meaningful to me.
This is another inspiration video about Mom's love and for my performance.
Meaning of the song
Mother
used her hand to hold me and guide me to walk when I'm toddler.
Mother
always do the best for me with her love and tolerance, accompany and guide me
through every junction.
Mother
will accompany me to chase my dream and future together.
Years
by years, mother becomes old, is time to let me hold your hand, move forward
step by step, just like what you did when I was small.
I
want to give you all the best I can do with all my love.
I
want to accompany you to comply your unfinished dream.
Let
me stay with you till the end.
Let
us hook our little finger, hold our promise together till the end.
My practice video of the dance choreograph. This is the first time I choreograph Contemporary dance for performance. It took me a lot of time to choreograph and a lot of time to practice.
I get feedback from Sarah and classmates to about the dance routine. I need to improve on my space management, drop my shoulder when I am dancing, some of my steps need to be sharper and clearer.
Some of the classmates recommend me to extend the dance routine.
