TDMV 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anatomical Terms Of Motion, Wayne Mcgregor, Everytime
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Evaluation of the feet and the plie: - define. All performed in a closed kinetic chain: -communication through the feet/plie. We are only aware of our bodies when something goes wrong. He also uses the plie before doing a step where the right knee opens up into a passe position immediately followed by a small lunge. Since the passe was a very swift one, there was more use of the joints in the working leg (kinda like picking up your bones) rather than a deep squishy plie like in ballet (prep into a passe) When mcgregor starts choreographing to the letters ted , his dancers were asked to copy aspects of his choreography. His choreography appears to be very springy and fast paced, allowing the use of the plie. However, the only time where a relatively deeper plie was used was when mcgregor and his dancers prepared for a half turn.
