nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
prep
- student notes
- pens
- laptop, Les Twins videos
welcome
- today's theme: KB current thinking on naname choreo
- topic 1) rhythm vs movement
-- brainstorm the possible relationships and a few examples
--- rhythm OR movement
--- rhythm AND movement
--- rhythm DESPITE movement
--- movement DESPITE rhythm
--- rhythm WITHOUT movement (X)
- topic 2) fascination with arrangement
-- first 20 years: what to play and how to play it
-- current: when to play these things
-- late-career: why to play?
- topic 3) improv vs prepared music
-- student thoughts
-- Les Twins videos
-- current approach to choreo: arrangement (build) within improv
improv with quarter and eighth notes
- hitting vs not hitting quarters
- quarters -> eighths and vice versa
- being okay with "mistakes"
- taking over where the previous soloist left off
Y-stance if time remains
- develop facility
- try improv
- add / remove rules
clean and close
possible choreographic exercises
- travelling farther between evenly-spaced hits (end of Cronkite)
- fuchi as excuse for arm swings (Murder)
- same rhythm, multiple stickings, arranged from simple to complex (Karc)
- gesture as inspiration (beginning of Cronkite)
- rhythm as inspiration (Tribeca)
- original / new idea