20050122
To administer a blow with sharp and telling effect, it is absolutely necessary that you should be precise and clean in your delivery (Price)
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Here is a list of expterise chosen by students so far:
Daniel Hetteix
"falling"
Andrew Bloomfield
"Bobbing and weaving"
Maya Semple
One specific fight in history (particular fight not chosen though, as of friday night)
Heidi Jandris
"Punches used in boxing"
Gretchen Cobb
"The mindset that drives a boxer to success"
Jason Schick
"the jab"
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20050121
Her method of pressing forward is not the passive but the active way; it is always by dancing through a problem first, and thinking through it afterward (Isaacs)
Arch 102 syllabus
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20050120
WEEK ONE
Drawing Continuous Variation
TODAY
Watch 'Million Dollar Baby'. Showtimes at The Angelika 5:45 PM 7:45 PM 8:45 PM 10:30 PM. Bring white paper (10+ pages, 8 1/2 x 11) and a thin black marker. Follow the character of Maggie (Hilary Swank) through her ongoing cycles of passion (Sadness-Joy) power, control, and will for survival. Record circular processes on different scales including micro cycles (speed bag) and meta cycles (family history). Within your sketches register turning points, highpoints, low points, trigger points and the respective cinematic effects. Mark moments of shock, pleasure, disgust, upset and content. Bonus track: Consider periodic systems of all three main characters. Produce lots.
TONIGHT
From your 10+ sketches select three. Convert each of the three into a simple hard line drawing, pencil and ink on mylar/vellum (3 drawings, 8 1/2 x 11) . Keep all sketches.
TOMORROW
Browse through boxing material (books on studio reserve) - watch movies. Then pick one specific aspect of boxing. This will be your area of expertise for the next week. Be specific about your object of investigation. It may be on the scale of wrapping hands, footwork or on that of a fight, a specific one or a training routine. The event or ritual is time based and based on continuous variation, it is taken from the world of boxing. Send an email to Alex Gryger with your chosen area of expertise X. Starting tomorrow do the following in parallel. 1) Research X : collect texts and visual material in libraries, bookstores, gymn, web. 2) Draw a series of scores and maps (temporal and spatial) on X. Start by sketching and drafting pencil on paper/vellum (8 1/2 x 11). Produce many drawings, redraw successful ones. Ink a preliminary selection of three.
MONDAY
Pin-up and present 16 pages, 8 1/2 x 11:
5 'Million Dollar' Sketches, marker on paper (selection of original recordings)
3 'Million Dollar' Drawings, pencil and ink on mylar/vellum
5 Scores/Maps on X, pencil on paper/vellum
3 Scores/Maps on X, ink on mylar/vellum
On Monday we will be joined by Trainer Edward Gavagan.
Scores:
Texts:
Up at Bennington on the open floor of the Armory - with the bondage of stage space removed - Arch Lauterer this summer followed the lines of some of Martha Graham's best known dances and of the newest dance, "Immediate Tragedy". The sketches were made in half darkness and while Mr.Lauterer was watching the dance, without the opportunity to check his lines against the dancer's movement. (Edith J.R. Isaacs)
Edith J.R. Isaacs : About Martha Graham
Rudolf von Laban, Choreutik // studio reserve
Danna Scott, Boxing (Penguin, 2000) // studio reserve
Mark Hatmaker, Boxing mastery (Tracks, 2004) // studio reserve
Films:
Million Dollar Baby, 2004
Rocky 1976 // studio reserve
When We Were Kings, 1996
Additional Films:
Fight Club, 1999
Raging Bull, 1980
Champion, 1949
Body and Soul 1947
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"Otherwise I might as well go back home and buy a used trailer and get a deep fryer and some Oreos." (Maggie in 'Million Dollar Baby')
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20050117
Million Dollar Baby (137 min., Rated: PG13) SHOWTIMES at The Angelika : Thursday, January 20, 2005: .. 5:45 PM 7:45 PM 8:45 PM 10:30 PM
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20050116
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