Week 9: Describing through metaphors
Sometimes verbal metaphors capture powerful images that can help us understand movement better. In this task you will be evaluating some descriptions of ballet movement through metaphors and produce one yourself.
Activity 9.1
In her comments about teaching ballet, Paskevska emphasises the importance of training in addressing the mechanics of movement and making them work towards a specific aim. For this she offers a metaphor:
"[...] like a family engaged in cleaning the house together, each member is fulfilling a specific task".
(Paskevska, 2005, pp. 27-29)
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Activity 9.2
In the following paragraph, Tully describes the control we need when dancing using the concept of water as a metaphor. Read the text and answer the question below.
"The movement of the dance cannot directly be controlled. If one takes water as an analogy, it will readily be seen that use and control of the water is through the channels, rivers and pipes, and that without direction and checks, water flows in all directions. So it is with the movement of the dance. Without the form, the positions and poses, there can be no control or proper direction of the responses to the music."
(Tully, 2011, p. 23)
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Activity 9.3
Now it is your turn to produce a metaphor.
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