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Mark Carpenter

#3

1/11/2016

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Collaborating with Flouer in New York. We got 30 seconds nicely choreographed with a few ideas for latter parts.
  0:00 - 4 booms: down, in, out, move
  0:10 - plant, forward & sink.
       - F: led: L R(cross)
            !led: step step to face
       - led: turn, stopped in middle

       - led: lean and throw
       - turn
       - catch & fall
  0:27 - chich ch
  0:30 - [second section]
  0:51 - crazy fugue to spiiiiiins to
  1:00 - click |
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#2

1/3/2016

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Take 5 is a song I've been wanting to work on for years, but am incredibly daunted by. I am planning to work on this song throughout this challenge.

Today I focused on the feet and ultimately constrained myself further by thinking of them as two dancers, never leaving the floor.
my first attempt essencially ignores the 5/4 time signature and imagines it as an extended 4-beat pattern consisting of "slow, slow, quick, quick", often with a triple step in the second half. My original thought was to bring the triple step up front, because lindy hop is typically danced as a 10-step dance (over two measures) and those three steps up front would fit nicely and make for some super straight lindy footwork. Unfortunately I can't not swing my triples and the lack of syncapation is really not working for me.
in this attempt i'm very footwoork heavy / feet-focused, which I think is great.

time    bar   note
00:00 - 001 - intro
00:08 - 005 - intro - jazz square with little cadencias -> drag (on heel esp.)
              (R) forward, L R 
            - (L) cross (long)
            - (L) step, RL
            - (R) step back, LR
00:22 - 013 - 
        017 -
00:36 - 021 -
        025 -
00:50 - 029 - |
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#1

1/2/2016

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Collaborating with Ally Yancey to bring you this jazz/tango coreography.
Notes
00:00 - intro
00:09 - (R) step back kick-ball-cross(suzieQ) cross behind back ocho
        (L) repeat
        (R) step back scoop-from-behind lunge together step(downstagefoot) split-weight turn leg "dadadadudum" down
00:25 - [repeat solo part facing front]
        (R) step back kick-ball-cross(suzieQ) cross behind back ocho
        (L) repeat
        (R) step back scoop-from-behind lunge split-wieght turn then spin to embrace 
00:44 - [improv tango]
01:01 - |
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Framing

1/1/2016

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For those of you who don't know me, I am a dancer of a variety of styles and I travel incessantly. I am really excited to play around with choreography this next month and am excited for the opportunity to stretch my choreo muscle. I'm going to be seeing a lot of talented dancers and choreographers and so I plan to collaborate with them as much as I can in the coming weeks.
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