National Dance Education Organization Conference 2015

I spent a lovely October weekend in Phoenix presenting at the annual NDEO conference. 

NDEO 2015 Conference-goers try out MEPC's Telephone Score

The Mountain Empire Performance Collective presented Necessity Fuels Creativity: Exploring Long-distance Methods of Dance Collaboration

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I presented my own Laban research Exploring Laban Effort Combinations: A Spatial Affinity for Flow. My own conference handout and notes on my website KatieSopociDrake.weebly.com

The conference proceedings will be out on the NDEO website in future.

My First Performance as a Collaborator for Telephone Dance Project

Whew!  Being a collaborator is crazy!  Not only are you in charge, but you're not in charge.  It all makes for a scary time when the collaboration is happening long distance and the first time you meet for  group rehearsals is the day before your first show!!!!

No pressure.

Find out how it all shook out...

"We had met each other at least once in person in the past to shake hands, share a cup of tea, and familiarize each other about the goings ons in our lives.  Our other meetings had only been through Google Hangouts and Skype to discuss logistics. So we were filled with excitement and trepidation about our first rehearsal as a group.  Would we mesh as dancers?  How would it look to put the phrases next to each other?  Would we remember the score (a framework used to put the phrases of choreography together into a "dance")?  Would it all fall apart?  How would the crowd react?"

Read the rest right here at TelephoneDanceProject.blogspot.com