Final Project

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For our final project, I decided to use clips I took from my improvisation class. I manipulated some of the clips so that some parts are slowed down and some parts faster. I chose to do it this way because I felt it suited the idea of a “global village” (McLuhan, p.63). As I said, this class is improvisation dance. Improvisation dance is not as simple as people think. In this class, the moves we do are inspired by what we see in the media such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. For this project, I asked my classmates if I could take a video while we improvised as a group for the whole group. Watching all the videos, made me realize that this group is a good example of allatonceness. How? By being able to use moves we learned from different types of media, we were able to connect as a group. Because of that connection, the group looked choreographed when in fact all of us improvised. Furthermore, it also supports the idea of “We now live in a global village...a simultaneous happening” (McLuhan, p.63). In the video, you can see that there are so many things that are happening at the same time and that is consistent till the end of the video. As I said earlier, that is because we kept incorporating things we learned from the media. Finally, the fact that I used YouTube to upload this video supports the idea of the global village. Since you are here reading my blog right now, just means that the media we are using right now is brought us together and makes us somewhat connected. 


Comments

  1. Jingquan Xiong (Klaire)November 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM

    Your video interprets simultaneous happening so well. I like the quietness in it. Less is more. I could more focus on the actions.

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  2. Bowen ZNovember 22, 2021 at 10:50 PM

    THIS CLASS IS AMAZING PEOPLE JUST COLLABORATE AND DO SOME SIMPLE MOVEMENTS INTERACT WITH OTHERS, AND YOU GUYS IN THE VIDEO DID WAYYYYY BETTER JOB THAN I DID IN THAT CLASS!!!

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