Whimsy: “Whimsy is what a person who’s a dreamer and out of step with the real world might have lots of. People who are full of whimsy are odd, but often fanciful and lovely, like Harry Potter’s friend Luna Lovegood.
Whimsy is also a whim — something you do just because you want to. If you find a postcard of Alaska and take that as a reason to move there, that could qualify as whimsy. Whimsy is irrational, but playful. If you decorate your house with whimsy, you may have a wall decorated with butterflies and giant daisies with googly eyes, and a couch trimmed with peacock feathers and vinyl. It’s amusing and witty, and you’re a master of whimsy.”
From: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/whimsy
Assignment:
Take any one of Andrea Olsen’s exercises from Body and Earth and transform them. Requirements.
To Do: make and perform the dance that you make from the ingredients below.
- It must take place in a public space and be witnessed either intentionally or not-intentionally, for the full duration or even a moment, by a passerby.
- Have your partner secretly record your performance and the passerby.
- Post by 5PM on Friday.
Ingredients:
- Select one from Olsen #6-10
- Discern one main or sub idea
- Examine that idea with whimsy (see definition below)
- Choreograph(not improvise) a one-minute (aprox) dance
- Rewrite the Olsen exercise you chose in the style of Yoko Ono (See “Grapefruit” or “Acorn”)
- Exchange this writing with your partner
- Choreograph a second dance to your partner’s writing.
- Perform the two-part dance (see above)
Assignment created and posted by Celeste Miller c. 2018
Naomi’s & Obuchi’s Response
