Amazing Cultural Immersion Past Review

I wanted to experience music and dance as a unseparated entity. In modern times, Western choreographers have found movement for the sake of movement. Consequentially, dances often take place in complete silence or with periods of silence. I wanted to see and experience the opposite end of the spectrum where dance is hand in hand with music. Movement is brought on by the rhythms and melody of the song. They were created together and one cannot exist without the other. I hoped that knowing how both of these experiences felt in my body would aid me as a performing artist. Frankly things did turned out exactly as expected. It was an intense experience and required a lot of focus and motivation. But with the aid of the teachers I think all of us really learned something and had fun doing it. I also feel a lot more adept at hearing layers within music and being able to adjust my body and mindset to fit those rhythms. I learned that to choreography to music, (i.e. to bring music and movement together and have choreography determined by the rhythms and/or melodic structure of a song) one must start with both from the very beginning.