SILENT LINES
DIGITAL RESOURCES
These film clips are designed to be used with our Silent Lines digital resource pack, which contains further information about the choreography and collaborators, as well as a variety of warm-ups and creative learning tasks to encourage considered choreography, inspire creativity and give students at KS3 and above an opportunity to develop performance concepts.
Click here for a link to the pack.
You can find fragments of the teaching clips below, to access the full films please use this link and a password which we will send you after purchasing the resource pack.
PHRASE ONE
This phrase comes from Section 3: Matrix and is danced by a group in unison, it explores gestures, stopping and various dynamics. This is the longest phrase/sequence with four dancers moving in unison. It starts with walking as Alethia enters in the film. Contains spine ripple actions that repeat and actions that stop.
Developments: After learning this phrase dancers could get into groups of 4 -5 dancers and start to explore varying the use unison and canon as well as being creative with the timings and use of dynamics.
Fragment from full video clip ‘Silent Lines phase 1, Matrix’
PHRASES 2 AND 3
Phrase B and Phrase C are two parts of a duet ,with the dancers reaching, turning and using actions to relate to each other in different ways. Students could learn one or both parts.
Performance Tip: When rehearsing this as a pair try dancing at least five steps away from each other, then each time you rehearse step nearer and you will find that your awareness of where your partner is will become more refined.
Developments: Dancers can perform the material on their own solo, or with a partner as a duet. When learning the material, students can find moments where they extend and move at the same time.
Teachers could teach half the group Phrase B and half Phrase C (below) and explore what happens when they are danced together.
Fragment from full video clip ‘Silent Lines phase 2&3, Mini Cosmos ’
PHRASE 4
This phrase comes from a solo in Section 9, and includes travelling and turning, with faster rhythmic gestures using the arms.
Performance Tip: Discuss with a partner which actions are fast, which need to be performed with a continuous fluid feel and which actions stop or need to speed up. Then watch your partner and feedback when they are performing these various tempos successfully.
Developments: After learning this phrase, dancers could develop the phrase by creating a variation that faces upstage; dancers could perform once to the front (original) and repeat again facing the back (developed).
The developed version could also explore expanding the phrase into space and making actions as large as possible, so that the sequence travels further and covers more space.
Fragment from full video clip ‘Silent Lines phase 4, Journey’
FOCUS
Taking inspiration from Russell Maliphant’s Silent Lines, Focus was a performance piece choreographed in 2022 by RMDC Dancers Alethia Antonia and Edd Arnold and co-created and performed by the dancers of EncoreEast.
See the film clips below to learn more about how the piece was created and watch the final performance.
