Please watch the video before reading choreography notes to experience the piece first with no context. The time stamps are to the song itself, Chinese Translation by M. Ward, not the video itself, the song starts at .03 in the video. I based my movements on the contemporary style and the themes are on Translations by Brian Friel, my own people's history as Native Americans, and colonization.
0-.08 Walk and sit In Translation they people are educated in the way traditional to them and are incredibly smart even excited to be in class. Education is a tool but also a weapon in this show and later we see education as a weapon of destruction to culture.
.08-.10 Lowering my arms to represent the sea and raised to showcase mountains in soft movements, the landscape was a …show more content…
.40-.50 Turn to meet hand grab In history colonizers are often met with open arms hence the friendliness which turns quickly to fear as their arm is twisted.
.50-.59 hand grab, hand shoulder A sense of violence being alien and disconcerting which in Translations was the bewilderment of the people of why the English were behaving so violently.
.59-1.11 hand mouth forced to sit This part was my showing how the method of education changed from interest to pure lecture base and the taking away of the native language is a form of silencing a people or culture.
1.11-1.15 think about leave stand up Those who tried to leave often were hurt or worse by colonizers even the idea of rebellion was forbidden.
1.15-1.22 grabbed and stiffened out When First Nation people were taken in re-education they were molded into what was deemed best and correct, my great grandmother was sent to one of the re-education camps and is one of the reasons no one in my family can speak the language of our
0-.08 Walk and sit In Translation they people are educated in the way traditional to them and are incredibly smart even excited to be in class. Education is a tool but also a weapon in this show and later we see education as a weapon of destruction to culture.
.08-.10 Lowering my arms to represent the sea and raised to showcase mountains in soft movements, the landscape was a …show more content…
.40-.50 Turn to meet hand grab In history colonizers are often met with open arms hence the friendliness which turns quickly to fear as their arm is twisted.
.50-.59 hand grab, hand shoulder A sense of violence being alien and disconcerting which in Translations was the bewilderment of the people of why the English were behaving so violently.
.59-1.11 hand mouth forced to sit This part was my showing how the method of education changed from interest to pure lecture base and the taking away of the native language is a form of silencing a people or culture.
1.11-1.15 think about leave stand up Those who tried to leave often were hurt or worse by colonizers even the idea of rebellion was forbidden.
1.15-1.22 grabbed and stiffened out When First Nation people were taken in re-education they were molded into what was deemed best and correct, my great grandmother was sent to one of the re-education camps and is one of the reasons no one in my family can speak the language of our