When designing and planning a fantasy bellydance piece, how do you begin and from there how do you proceed?
Do you start with a piece of music that inspires ideas for costuming and movement? Or do you imagine a costume and seek out the music to complement it?
I find that inspiration comes from many directions....sometimes from several places at once. Sometimes it's a pieces of music that conjures images of a costume in my mind's eye. Sometimes I see costume components that inspire me to want to create a dance and find music that expresses how I feel.
Just curious about how it works for others...
Do you start with a piece of music that inspires ideas for costuming and movement? Or do you imagine a costume and seek out the music to complement it?
I find that inspiration comes from many directions....sometimes from several places at once. Sometimes it's a pieces of music that conjures images of a costume in my mind's eye. Sometimes I see costume components that inspire me to want to create a dance and find music that expresses how I feel.
Just curious about how it works for others...
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Re: Which comes first?
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:47 AMI think that music is the main inspiration for any dance that I would perform. I am trying to think of how I would have a concept and then find music that fits it for me. No, I would definitely have to find music that inspired me first.
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Re: Which comes first?
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 7:10 AMall of the above :)
Though most often, I have a concept for a piece, then have to make the costume and find the perfect music for it. If it's the music first, I think that's generally easier because I loathe trying to find the perfect music - as an artist, I can make any costume, but I'm not a musician, so I just can't create what's in my head, I have to find it. Luckily I have an editing sound genius for a husband, so once the music is found, he can make it as close to my vision as possible :)
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Re: Which comes first?
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 9:52 AMPetra, that's a great question : )
For me what comes first is a feeling or an experience that I want to communicate. I base everything on that.
My goal is to make the audience experience the feeling that inspired the piece.
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Re: Which comes first?
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 10:57 AMIt is more difficult to find music to go with a costume and feeling than vice versa....when I thought about why, I think that I do this because I am slightly more of a visual person than an auditory person. I usually start with a costume more often than the music.....which sometimes complicates things.
I like the idea of trying to get your audience to feel what you feel.....I need to spend more time working on doing that, I think.
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Re: Which comes first?
Fri, April 18, 2008 - 10:28 AMthis is my first post on here but, I decided to chime in, finally, LOL.
My first solo piece (which was 2 weeks ago at a hafla) was a ballet fusion dance to "Rainbow Connection" . It was the Sarah McLachlan version, and I just feel that music to my very soul. I just decided to wear green stuff to see if anyone got the Kermit the Frog connection. It worked, one of the other dance instructors later told me that she thought it was a beautiful piece and a supa cute idea.
So I would have to say that for me whenever I perform anything, the music is the inspiration for what I wear and which facet of me comes out.
Just my 2 cents ; )
*runs off giggling*
