Intro (to November)

Intro to November –   A joyful relationship between dance, music and some leaves., an audiovisual experience.

FOCUS:

• Body isolations in high speed
• Dynamic in relation to the violin playing.
• Using the leaves as a prop
• Finding the spaces for movement and the spaces for music.
• Relationship between upper and lower body
• Move in a small space

BACKGROUND:

This creation started when I was going to perform for the “Follow the Vikings Project -end dinner”. The stage was told to be small. I saw this as a challenge accepted. To create a solo I could perform  where there is not much room, I thought was smart to have on the repertoire.

VERSION 1:

I got started on the solo in Verdal christmas 2018. I then choose a traditional music track from my hometown, because I wanted to bring some of that Norwegian local vibe to York, England. Due to where the solo is cut in the music in the “intro version”, this creations has been working well as an intro for something else: a talk that is comming, opening a projectir. It was used as  opening of a show, or a transition, I felt this solo did its thing several times

VERSION 2:

Back of my mind I wished to develop the choreography further but did not. It worked well as it was, like an intro to something else, but it kept brewing. The initial idea started in October when I was joining “Huldance Showcase” and you could only show up to 5 min.
This solo was 2.5 min and I thought that was too little, and I did not have much time to develop it that week, so I showed a part of my vikingsolo “Røtter” instead, a choice I was very happy with. Thank you to all street/hiphop youth that gave me nice feedback, it matter to me that you liked it.

Then in December I started the work of developing this creation into the whole song. It felt so NICE to finally get it done. Gave the solo that had been totally abstract until then, a more theatrical “touch”. I still think it is mostly abstract but it has, something now for the imagination.