Hello All!

Just thought I’d take this time to go into a little more detail on this whole “Gaming Past and Present” thing. My concept for this first act of the concert is to create a solo for each dancer in the group work. Each solo takes as its inspiration a piece of music from a different video game. The music inspires me to research the game itself, and therefore to define several aspects of the game that make it unique. How does Mario differ, for example, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or the Castlevania series? All three are essentially the same game mechanic, yet all are thoroughly unique. I then take those aspects and translate them into the world of movement. Games that are currently on my list to be solo’d, all of which may or may not make it into this concert:

• The Castlevania Series
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Tetris
• Chrono Trigger
• Final Fantasy VII
• Portal (yes, I’m sure you know what song I’m talking about
• Lost Odyssey
• World of Warcraft
• TMNT
• The Mario Series

If anyone can think of a game they love that I haven’t mentioned here and that might be good for the Geeksdanz treatment, post it in the comments!

~Ellen

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