Researching the historical context of International dances, such as Flamenco, Bollywood and Tango I have fully explored the context for each one of these dances.
Flamenco originated in Southern Regions of Spain in 1777. However has influenced in world cultures inluding, Latin, uban and jewish traditions. Flamenco is a spanish art form made up of 3 parts, Guitar, singing and dance which are all interpreted into the same dance. However it is not set to any music, more natural components like singing and clapping the hands, this sound is called ' Toque de palmas'.
There are a different range of physical purposes of Flamenco, this could alternatively vary from entertainment, romantic or comforting, all different qualities will have different dance dynamics and emotions. entertainment would have alot of force, high speed, sharp, power and facial expressions being physically happy. Alternatively depending on the stimuli, romantic could be passionate, fast, sharp or fluid, this would also be the same to comforting, but much more slower, using emotions in relationship to the movement and audience.
Flamenco strongly is performed in an emotional style,using the connections with the body as well facial expressions. While performing alot of individuals use a hand held percussion called a 'castanet' these are small pieces of hard wood, curved and held in the palm of your hands. To perform this dance I feel to get into character the costume helps, aswell as the partner, getting into focus, the style house would help with Flamenco due to it all being footwork, these two styles could be interpreted with the right technique and therefore I may try this in my solo.
Flamenco can be performed solo or with a partner, this requires fast technique with footwork.
After watching eva la bubelue I feel that Flamenco takes upon a big role of control and focus, working effectively in relation with the percussion. Flamenco looks very sexy expecially with the dresses they perform in. The fluidity and control in each body lineaments and placement is physically extraordinary, being very sharp with the feet, yet fluid with the arms.
Tango is the meaning of touch. Tango dance is represented with a partner. Tango originated in the 1890's, where it influenced from European and African culture. Tango originated its name in connection from its first performance in the 1980's.
Physical dance elements of tango have been interpreted in different activities like; Gymnastics for when they are on the height bars, and sharply sweep their foot around the back of their leg, also figure of skating and synchronozde swimming due to the dramatic feeling and its cultural relation with romance.
From these picture it just shows passion, fierceness, elegance aswell as sexyness, just from the body placement/ posture and costume. The colour red shows sexyness and representing love, which is the relationship you need to perform tango due to being in partners.
The dynamics for tango would be very powerful, throughout the head to feet, interpreting every muscele to show that control and power full of passionate romance. Relationships are very important in Tango, you need to be fully connected emotionally and physcially at all times during the performance so that it does not loose the story or passion. I feel Tango is a very sexy dance, showing alot of tension and passion throughout the whole performance, the movements are very sharp, fast, full of power and fire.
Bollywood was orignated in Mumbai previously known as Bombay, Bollywood is a commercial band given to modern day Indian songs. Bollywood originated from India, with a strong relation with Hindu culture featuring classical Indian dance style and American dance styles. The dance works strongly with Different regions of India and Bollywood is a big cultural part expecially at weddings. Bollywood can be used to show emotions, expressions but mainly entertainment due to the high energy. Bollywood is an international dance due to the different cultures moving around the country, therefore Bollywood will follow with each individual. However statistic show that a high percentage of full English individuals are learning Bollywood and competing in competitions as desi girls. This is physically positive due to all different cultures being brought into one society, therefore this is allowing the acceptance of different race.
The expressions from the performers show that this dance is entertainment, fun and a tradition to the culture. Therefore if I was performing this dance I would let my self go, have fun and be honoured to dance with this culture. The picture on the right shows more of a reality tv show being performed, yet the other is a different contrast of entertainment at a show/ theatre.
All 3 dance styles are familiar in the high level of energy, each dance could interpret a high atmosphere from the dance style / material, each song uses completely different musicality, some use natural sounds aswell as they all use instruments to play along side any exsistant music. Each dance has originally got there name from a natural resource, Bollywood got theirs from Indian songs, tango is another word for 'touch' during a tango scene. Finally flamenco is a meaning for a bird, 'flamingo'. However each dance is taught in Differeng countries yet each international dance has a physical vision to being taught in America.
In my solo, I am choreographing to ' Dj Bonnie - concrete angels'. During my time of researching more into the elemenets I felt that I wanted to choreograph about ' Natural Disasters'. By researching I wanted to create something physcially emotional that would connect to the audience. I looked into Cancer for a natural disaster due to some cancer illnesses there are no cause,due to all the elements go into conditions for cancer. However during a day at work, I met a young girl who came through my till with high servere burns, all her facial skin burnt off, with minor hair strands growing back, being to scared and shy to speak, down to that one disaster that has happend. From this experience I want my dance to come across that everyone is beautiful, there is a mixed story for my piece. However due to the musicality that I chose the song is about a young girl who gets beaten to death by her parents, and due to statistics in the last years, child abuse has been extremely high, and big investigations have been taken upon, however it is still ongoing. BabyP was a big investigation and Victoria Climbia. My message from this dance is to speak out, do not hold back the bruises, tears and upset, speak up.
My final structure for this is a Narrative, telling a story of a young girl getting beaten up, this will be slow sustained Bollywood movement to show the expressions and emotions I am visually trying to show. I am also using fire to show the angre, this is the climax in the middle of the song this would be the Tango to show the passion, fierce angre that I the littke child cannot take no more. This will happen when the tempo gets much more faster. Aswell as my main element being natural disasters, young innocent children getting beaten to death for no reason and the disaster takes upon them dying, or commiting suicide due to the amount of pain they suffer with. I will then end with sad, emotional flamenco movement to represent being quite about getting beaten, being somebody you are not , I thought this relates clearly with flamenco due to originally coming from a Slavery capture.
I feel all these styles can be interpreted into my solo, and I am fully aware of all the international backgrounds for each dance style.
