week2

Recently in my dance class we watched a clip from a dance concert. The clip was very different and weird. We talked about how it was very well organized and rehearsed even though it looked like total chaos. To us it didn't look like any kind of dance we had seen before, but to them, it was very good and considered very well done. It makes me wonder how someone can see something in their mind and make it happen. And then how people react differently to it.
Being a dancer I have had many different teachers that come up with our dances. It was always amazing to me that they could think of something in their head and teach it so that it looks like what they want it to. It is amazing to me that people picture something in their mind and make it a reality. How do they do that? Is it experience that gives them an idea and then they do the rest? Like my dance teachers, being in dance for so long they might just pick moves and try to make them go together. But if its really what they love to do and they are good at it, I don't think that is the case.
Why did most of the kids in my dance class react the same way as I did to the dance clip? Is it because we all have pretty much the same image of dance and seeing something new was weird to us? The woman that came up with the dance must have had some experiences in her life that helped her create the piece. Something in her life created some emotion that she put towards it. Were there experiences in my life that made me react to the dance the way I did? The dance was violent but ended good. Did something violent in my life happen that reminded me of the dance? Was that the case for all of the kids in my class?
We all have different opinions about everything. Is that because of life experiences and what we have maybe been raised to think? I obviously think differently about what a good dance is compared to the teacher of the clip. She probably has more experience than me about what makes a good dance. Does that mean that it is a good dance?