Solar Yoga - My dance makes use of yoga movements and typical classical Indian dance movements to worship the sun.

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Title: Solar Yoga – My dance makes use of yoga movements and typical classical Indian dance movements to worship the sun.

Music: Om Namah Shiva by Jah Wobble

Description: Motif 1: A tray like movement with the arms, one arm is carried across the body followed by the other arm. From either right to left/left to right, depending on the direction that the dancers are going to travel in.

Motif 2: A wiping action, where the hand sweeps across the opposite arm, from shoulder to arm, to lead in to the next movement.

Main Choreographic Devices used:

  • Wipe motif is performed sometimes with one hand sweeping across the other arm, but later changes to have the opposite hand sweep the other arm to follow. The levels at which it is performed at also changes during the performance.

  • The tray motif is generally quite slow at the beginning of the performance but tends to speed up when the music gets faster to lead swiftly into the next movement.

  • Sometimes the dancers meet, e.g. when dancer 2 stretches on top of dancer 1, but mainly the dancers work individually in unison.
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  • There are sections of the performance when the dancers perform in symmetry to each other, e.g. when the dancers perform the wipe motif directly in front of each other.

  • The dance is performed close to the right side of the stage to help communicate the focus - the sun (which the dance is based on), to the audience.

  • Parts of the Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) are used in the dance. These are phrases of yoga movements which salute the sun, and are also used to promote flexibility in the limbs and spine.

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