Sum of Parts is a compelling new work from Sadler’s Wells’ Creative Learning department, Connect. It brings together the distinctive work of the artist Betsy Dadd, the choreographic talents of Sadler’s Wells’ Associate Companies, including Hofesh Shechter Company, Jasmin Vardimon Company, Kate Prince’s ZooNation, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Russell Maliphant Company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and a cast of 150.
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
Monday, 16 May 2011
Diary Entry - Day 5, ZooNation, ZooYouth & Sadler's Wells youth group, Laura Dajao, Saturday 7th May 2011
Today I brought my dance chair with me to see what it would be like to use it in this piece. It was everyone in today, ZooYouth and the Sadler's Wells youth group. We put the piece together, slotting in the different routines in and around each other. It was a little strange with so many people in the studio but it was great seeing the piece as a whole. Working with the b-boys again to figure out our section in the middle. But at the end of the session we have most of it together now, now it's a case of practice! Until next week!
Photo: Gigi Giannella
Diary Entry - Day 4, ZooNation, ZooYouth & Sadler's Wells youth group, Laura Dajao, Saturday 30th April 2011
After the Easter holidays, everyone was a bit groggy! We were picking up the routine and added more to the piece - almost finishing the choreography. We added the part where we'd be interacting directly with ZooYouth. ending with us as the people appreciating London stopping ZooYouth looking at their watches and joining us to appreciate London
Photos: Gigi Giannella
Diary Entry - Day 3, ZooNation, ZooYouth & Sadler's Wells youth group, Laura Dajao, Saturday 9th April 2011
This week we learnt a couple of routines. The concept was that we were the people who appreciate being in London London
Photos: Gigi Giannella
Diary Entry - Day 2, ZooNation, ZooYouth & Sadler's Wells youth group, Laura Dajao, Saturday 26th March 2011
First session with Carrie-Anne.
After a warm up we were told about the concept of our piece and the music we were using. Nitin Sawhney - I love his music! Amazing that we were dancing to it. So we were asked to think of an everyday activity and to try and dance it - but not actually dance it! I think sometimes it's hard to do because you're thinking that you have to look like you're dancing at the same time as conveying an everyday activity. There was even a part in the choreography where the boys were going to do a flying push up and the girls would roll under.... I'm not sure how that would have worked with a wheelchair! Would have been fun to try though!
After a warm up we were told about the concept of our piece and the music we were using. Nitin Sawhney - I love his music! Amazing that we were dancing to it. So we were asked to think of an everyday activity and to try and dance it - but not actually dance it! I think sometimes it's hard to do because you're thinking that you have to look like you're dancing at the same time as conveying an everyday activity. There was even a part in the choreography where the boys were going to do a flying push up and the girls would roll under.... I'm not sure how that would have worked with a wheelchair! Would have been fun to try though!
Photo: Gigi Giannella
Diary Entry - Day 1, ZooNation, Zoo Youth & Sadler's Wells youth group, Laura Dajao, Saturday 19th March 2011
So today we worked with 3 artists dealing with a speciality each: art, creative writing and dance. It was cool to see so many different abilities and styles that people were involved in, although I felt like one of the oldest people in the room. Really experienced dancers like ZooYouth and quite shy and timid participants who didn't say much. The icebreaking session definitely got us talking and in groups we were asked to brainstorm around the words London and heartbeat. Moving onto more specific ideas we were asked to interpret the more difficult concepts and try and draw or describe them in picture form. From my group I chose to describe crime. Quite difficult but I think my drawings seemed to be quite abstract! Having done our own drawings we were asked to walk around the room and exchange our drawings. It was interesting seeing other people's perception of another drawing that wasn't theirs. We then did some acting with gestures and given 4 gestures we were put into pairs. Back to back on the count of three we had to choose a gesture and in the pair decide on what the story was. Developing more with the idea of gestures our groups got bigger and using the gestures we were asked to block a story board with three freeze frames each including a gesture. This then evolved into movement - trying to get from one freeze frame in a continuous flow, to the next, trying to tell a story. Definitely a fun workshop and cool to meet everyone.
Photos: Gigi Giannella
Monday, 9 May 2011
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