Metaphor

Once of the great advising session with Adesola was when she asked me how do I choreograph? We had a great conversation and she related my choreography process to the inquiry research in a very constructive explanation, this really open my box of uncertainty about this inquiry method. Recognising and learning something new from a familiar knowledge was an exciting Aha.  

Referring to one of my AOLs about "Imagery in Dance" 

"By nature of the profession, I always see imagery everywhere and in every moment… I see story, life , emotion in every object, subject  and special human body. I see the design, the shape, the architecture, the landscape… I realize that I quite often see things differently compared to others and maybe that is the strength in me as an artist. Because of that I never try to attempt to plan or discuss about imagery whether, I am teaching technique class or choreographing a dance. I feel like it comes naturally and I believe this is one of my best strength and skills that has accumulated over the years"

"When it comes to choreography, I normally start with an image of a specific scenery or image of a particular color that has a strong meaning with the idea I want to explore. Movement comes later and they are purely actions without any meaning or suggested emotion. They gradually flow in and find their identity within the dance’s structure. There is a link between architectural classicism and George Balenchine’s Neoclassicism on the basic of shared forms and their meaning. George Balanchine (Gans, D.1993) notes that both choreography and architecture are visual arts, but dance choreography is the art of motion. In the case of dance, the performance take place before a stationary observer. In architecture, it is the participant who moves through the stationary scene. Dance’s medium is the human body while architecture uses material means, but in both case the language of geometry used in relation to the human being is the discipline"