Postballet Extras
Added 2021-11-17 21:21:19 +0000 UTCTo create the audition phrase I shared I utilized the poem Sea Gods by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), many of her poems from the collection Sea Garden will be spoken and danced to throughout The Art of Seafaring. I wasn't able to memorize the entirety of the poem to create the phrase, so I focused on the first stanza, and pulled out the words that seemed most important. Hope, Sand, Rubble of the Sea, Broken Hulk, Ship, Cracked Pitch. I repeated those words in my mind as I was moving, letting them create movement impulses to build the phrase. Hilda Doolittle is known to be one of the leaders of the Imagist movement within poetry.
"Imagism was an early twentieth century poetic movement that emphasized clear, direct language. It was considered a reaction to the traditions of Romantic and Victorian poetry, which emphasized florid ornamentation of language. The Imagists, by contrast, were succinct and to the point. Language could be symbolic and allegorical, yet it also had to be succinct. If the essence of an object, setting, or cultural movement could be reduced to a few words, then a verse of Imagist poetry required only those few words and nothing more" from Masterclass.com
The way that she writes builds vivid illustrations. My hope is that hearing her poetry while watching the work will provide additional context to the movement.
