Creations

Shared Levitation Partnering principles into creation 

How can the Shared Levitation principles and philosophy be used to create a choreography? 

It is useful to put the learned frames in practice and see what they do to our dancing by learning a set choreography and evolve through repetition of the material. Like that we can analyse the technical aspects as well as processing the tools. We also like to motivate the couples to change roles and if possible, invert the whole choreography. Trying to do the other role gives us a better understanding of what our partner needs and how specific lifts and moments feel in our bodies. 

Inside the given steps we shift between being lifted and lift our partner constantly so we will not get stuck to the same role over and over. This change of role will help us to go deep in the action/reaction principles of partnering. We will give specific ideas and directions and at the same time motivate each couple to aim for their own quality and approach of the choreography. Adding to the set material we give space to the creative part of Shared Levitation. 

Each couple will be coached by us in the technical execution of the material as well as the creative part, changing the set material into their own new version. 

By using the structure of the given material each couple transforms our choreography into a more personal approach adding repetition, changing roles, playing with the use of space and dynamics, creating characters and a storyline, as well as adding their own knowledge of movement and partnering into the set frame. 

Added to this new version of the individual duets we also give ideas to develop it into a trio or group-scene for instance and cut, paste, add, dissect as much as possible from the given material. In the end there is not much left from the original choreography, but many new very creative versions of duets, trios, and group-partnering. 

The use of voice and physical theatre is another layer we like to use when it can work as an extension of the idea. It allows the dancers to dive deeper into the meaning of the relationship that is established between the performers as well as the relationship to the audience. The inner world of each dancer is sometimes more visible adding this aspect and allows the movement to evolve even more, emotions and states appear and often give the material a more captivating energy. 

This specific way of creating partnering choreography is thought to help experienced dancers in their process as movers as well as choreographers. It aims to inspire in many different ways, give tools that can be helpful for the own practice or practice with others and to use dancing with a partner as a tool for communication.