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Body In Ten Parts
Body In Ten Parts
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Please click on "Nina Sarnelle/ Carnegie Mellon School of Fine Arts" below for the project website with
photos and full video of the performance. Rehearsal videos can also be
found on YouTube.The concept of this performance art piece was that over the course of one night a sleeper was disembodied and then reconstructed into a new creature. Using our bodies and white spandex as our only prop, we created a series of scenes in which we would conceal most of our bodies and emphasize only one part of the body: the hands, the elbows, the knees, etc. This is group devised-movement performance art piece, for academic credit, by audition. Devised movement means that the dancers and choreographer would do improv work based off of the directors concept, storyline or general sketch of a scene, then the choreographer would review video of the rehearsals and set choreography based off of our improv. We would then learn the choreography in the next rehearsal. Because this was an interdisciplinary project, including students in theater tech, biology, business, dance, architecture, art and even a proffesional choreography (Maddy Landy, founder of KNOT dance) hailing from three univerisities (Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, and Point Park), we had two rehearse in groups of three, each group being responsible for devising certain scenes. We met once a week as an entire group to bring the separate pieces together. The final project was six performances over 3 nights of a 1/2 hour piece at the Greybox Theater in Lawyenceville, Pittsburgh.
photos and full video of the performance. Rehearsal videos can also be
found on YouTube.The concept of this performance art piece was that over the course of one night a sleeper was disembodied and then reconstructed into a new creature. Using our bodies and white spandex as our only prop, we created a series of scenes in which we would conceal most of our bodies and emphasize only one part of the body: the hands, the elbows, the knees, etc. This is group devised-movement performance art piece, for academic credit, by audition. Devised movement means that the dancers and choreographer would do improv work based off of the directors concept, storyline or general sketch of a scene, then the choreographer would review video of the rehearsals and set choreography based off of our improv. We would then learn the choreography in the next rehearsal. Because this was an interdisciplinary project, including students in theater tech, biology, business, dance, architecture, art and even a proffesional choreography (Maddy Landy, founder of KNOT dance) hailing from three univerisities (Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, and Point Park), we had two rehearse in groups of three, each group being responsible for devising certain scenes. We met once a week as an entire group to bring the separate pieces together. The final project was six performances over 3 nights of a 1/2 hour piece at the Greybox Theater in Lawyenceville, Pittsburgh.
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