Who put the glad in gladiator? Not me! In my 1st hour anatomy class, we had to create an interpretive dance of sorts. The dance had to recreate some specific motions of joints, such as flexion and dorsiflexion. Each dance was to be unique, as well as represent a certain number of joint movements in the choreography. Music had to be provided, and most of the time the dances were adapted from popular preexisting dance routines, such as the Napoleon Dynamite number from the movie of the same name.
My partner was Lucas McGuire and we chose to do a cheesy 80’s martial arts fight scene and we happened to have chosen some inspirational pop from the 1980’s Transformers movie. At first, we weren’t properly choreographed, due in part to an inability to discuss said moves, being that we could not contact one another. Later, however, we got into synch and made a perfect routine with a great concept and some so bad it’s good music.
Obviously, with this sort of work a strong sense of creativity and adaptability and I think that it was pulled off with finesse in this scenario. The collaboration and timing of the moves, as well as the designation of the moves themselves required some brainstorming, as each move represented a joint movement, and getting that to work with martial arts in a convincing way is rather difficult .