2021 INTANGIBLE ROOTS
ONLINE SUMMER SESSION
During the summer of 2021 INTANGIBLE ROOTS held a virtual Summer intensive that combined both lecture based material and embodied practices. Participants were reminded that INTANGIBLE ROOTS is an intense, amazing, thought-provoking journey and were asked to lean into challenges, enlightenment, exhilaration, and transformation.The 5 week lecture included the following:
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WEEK ONE
Social Soul
Social Soul looks at historical events in the 1960s, that had an impact on music, dance and hip hop. How did changes in the Soul Music of the early 70s reflect broader shifts in American society during that time?
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WEEK TWO
Architecture for Teaching Dance
Anatomical Warm-up
Isolation and rhythmic flow exercises
Safety and progression
Definitions, terms, and techniques
Learn to breakdown steps and movement
Identifying and excavate the fundamentals
Strengthen your ear
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WEEK THREE
Disco
The music, the movement & the people Focus: The rise of Disco in the 1970s had an enormous cultural impact on the American audience. It was the music they heard on the radio, the music they Waacked to, Vogued to, and influenced what became known as house music. It affected fashion. It affected club culture. It even affected film, but what of its roots?
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WEEK FOUR
Sensing, Feeling, and Action
Dancing musically - making music your ally
Developing rhythmic sensitivity - exploring sound, time, groove, the 4 bodies and more
The 3 planes of music
Understand the 7 elements of music
Philosophical approaches to emotional expression
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WEEK FIVE
Work That Body: Dancing to House Music
Like Disco, House roots are multiple. It has connections to R&B, Soul and Funk, and it exploded out of the urban gay culture in New York City and Chicago. Influencing hip hop culture leading New York hip hop dancers to create a vocabulary of movement.