I hav to do a 10 minute theme based contemporary piece...... But i cant think of any themes.. Please. HELP ME!

Question

I hav to do a 10 minute theme based contemporary piece...... But i cant think of any themes.. Please. HELP ME!

Answer 1

Let's see... It would help to know if it's a solo or group dance but you could do...

If you have a group-

* A night out on the town, stuck in the "wrong" place of town

* "What we don't see happening under the sea": Mermaids coming alive and all the different odd creatures coming out of the dark nooks and crannies.

* (this can be a solo or group dance) you can have the dancers being the main fire source together as one but then the fire sparks get separated in the wind and blow away and how they eventually get burned out and die.

* You could have a teacher teaching an entire classroom of drugged students and dance the teacher's battle to keep them under control.

If it's a solo-

* You could represent a dancer who has injured herself (anywhere really) , and the dancer's struggle to dance like she had before.

* You could dance to represent the entire nine months a baby develops in the womb until the big climax of birth.

* You could dance as if you had two split personalities; and the person's frustration and confusion with dealing with the disorder. And maybe you can show what issues in the person's life before the disorder caused this to happen.

Answer 2

Recent themes I have used when guiding students:

Interruptions - think of the ways that you are interupted in life (from waking up - interupted by alarm), to phones, bells, conversations, adverts - and how that stops the flow of something....

Super Heroes - the different powers that different characters have and how that impacts on what they do

Trapped - different ways that you can feel trapped or stuck.  Physically / Mentally / Emotionally.  Good prop for using (in a group piece) - buy 5 meters of elastic from woolworths, create a loop and ask the dancers to move to create a physical web - then one or two at a time - explore the web.  You can then take away the elastic and use the movements you were using when you were exploring the web (over / under / round).

falling - different aspects (falling in love, falling in with the wrong crowd, physically falling, etc) - you can use lots of suspension and falls in the choreogrpahy as well as exploring specific themes...

hope any of these help.... good luck

Answer 3

The inner struggle of good & bad/nice & nasty.

Answer 4

well if you want to do a deeper contemporary peice one on like a statment about war would be really good. A good song is called "Bravery" by James Blunt. It's an amazing song and would prob work well. Then you could also use some instrumental peices, and manybe even record your voice and put it over some instrumentel and give some facts and or just saome things about the war??? i donno hope this helps!

Answer 5

mine was shorter but i did pirates of the carribean it was really fun and you can really update the style it also thats on h**l of a theme