Dance, Movement

To Prop or not to Prop

DANCING WITH PROPS – There are many ways to do it.. be it improvised or choreographed.

This dance (with the romantic double veils) was created in the way I make most of my props-dances:

Propless.

 

I had been working on a choreography inspired by this song (Omry Kelou by Wael Kfoury) and I had even performed it on stage (improvised) a few times.. but it felt like something was missing.

So.. the Dance went on a break.

Until I, while getting ready for another stage performance, was asked to add another dance to the show fill in for someone else.

It was going to be a choreo-version of this dance, prop-less, originally.

I was practicing at home, when a postal package arrived. It was the set of (hand painted!) veils you see in this video.

I had ordered only one, to match the costume, but the artist had made 2 versions so I could choose (if you look really closely, one is a tiny bit more bright in coloring)

I loved them both.

So, I wrote to her, and asked if I could purchase the veils as a set instead.

Once that was arranged, I wanted to continue my dance… but the veils were too beautiful to ignore.

I decided to take them for a spin, dance my dance with them.. and voilá. Suddenly the Dance was complete.

It had to be double veil all along.

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Parts of this dance are still improvised (and probably always will be), but the atmosphere, the ‘where I‘ll be‘, the moods and the crescendos/pauses/turns were more or less created and decided already.

With the veils, it all came alive.

It’s been one of my favorite dances since.

I now ‘test drive’ all my props dances without the props, I feel it enriches them, and it helps to keep the element of DANCE.

The Body/Soul comes first. Then props will become an extension of the visual Energy.

And you?

Have you tried this method before for dances with props? Let me know!

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