Stimulus
ideas for dance composition
© Commonwealth of Australia 2009
stimulus
ideas for dance composition
stimulus
is defined as the starting point or incentive for creative
movement. Stimuli can be categorised into 5 groups.
stimulus
VISUAL
what we see
AUDITORY
what we hear
KINAESTHETIC
movement
TACTILE
what we touch
IDEATIONAL
ideas
IDEATIONAL
quotes
poems
concepts
IDEATIONAL
ideas
narratives
The following images and poems suggest concepts and ideas that
could be used to stimulate ideas for dance composition.
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concept that could be used for dance composition. You could write
random ideas or develop a short narrative.
Consider how the concepts could be translated to dynamic qualities,
timing, spatial floor patterns, body shapes, relationships and other
aspects of dance composition.
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Choreographers such as
Martha Graham and Nacho
Duato have used poetry as
stimulus for some of their
works.
Words and rhythms of poems can inspire dramatic shapes and
relationships
Use the highlight text tool to
select lines from the
following poems that could
be used as a starting point
for movement.
Write your movement ideas
next to the text.
There's a certain slant of light
by Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light, On winter
afternoons That oppresses, like the
weight Of cathedral tunes. Heavenly
hurt it gives us; We can find no scar, But
internal difference Where the meanings,
are. None may teach it anything, 'T is
the seal, despair, An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air. When it comes, the
landscape listens, Shadows hold their
breath; When it goes, 't is like the
distance On the look of death.
Source www.emule.com/poetry
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Pain has an element of blank
by Emily Dickinson
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain
Source www.emule.com/poetry
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Sonnet CXVI
by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds, Or
bends with the remover to remove: O no!
it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on
tempests and is never shaken; It is the
star to every wandering bark, Whose
worth's unknown, although his height be
taken. Love's not Time's fool, though
rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending
sickle's compass come: Love alters not
with his brief hours and weeks, But bears
it out even to the edge of doom. If this be
error and upon me proved, I never writ,
nor no man ever loved.
Source
www.emule.com/poetry
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I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing
by Walt Whitman
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,All alone stood it,
and the moss hung down from the branches;Without
any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of
dark green,And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made
me think of myself;
But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves,
standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near
for I knew I could not;And I broke off a twig with a
certain number of leaves upon it, and
twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away - and I have placed it in sight in my
room;It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear
friends,(For I believe lately I think of little else than of
them;)Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes
me think of manly
love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there
in Louisiana,
solitary, in a wide flat space,Uttering joyous leaves all
its life, without a friend, a lover, near,I know very well I
could not.
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Source
www.emule.com/poetry
Stimulus
ideas for dance composition
© Commonwealth of Australia 2009