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TOMORROW!!! Geeksdanz returns with Manifestations III: Nightmare Hauntings! Come to the Glitter Box and enjoy a selection of Halloween vignettes woven through with witches, zombies, beasties, and various and sundry other nightmares. 6:30 and 9:00 pm! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/manifestations-iii-nightmare-hauntings#/
“This paper introduces a novel workflow to generate snow imprints, and model the interaction of snow with dynamic objects.”
i like what i’m seeing…….
Wh...why is it a gorilla? I’m all for that concept, and the choreography is solid, but...a gorilla?!
Geeksdanz is BACK with a new show, next Sunday October 27th! Check out the Indie Go Go Campaign for a sneak preview!
Geeksdanz is BACK! We’re ridiculously happy to announce our new show, the third installment in our Manifestations Halloween series! This collaboration melds dance and traditional ghost stories told live by a professional storyteller - and we’ve got a particularly good batch of stories for this one! Click through for our promo video and the fundraising campaign!
Son… THIS is what I’M here for. The slow motion at the end? PRICELESS!!!
Yes. Just yes.
Art Assignment #54: Self Shape - “280 Days”
This is another long one, but it's long for a good reason - it was nearly a year in the making! Nine months, to be exact. You'll definitely want to watch through to the end... When I saw the Art Assignment about Self Shape, I happened to have just successfully gotten pregnant. I knew my self shape was going to change drastically over the next half-year, so I seized the opportunity to do a long-term improvisation project. Every week before rehearsal I improvised a small nugget, 2 or 3 minutes worth, working off of a set movement motif and allowing it to change as my self-shape changed week to week. I extracted 45-50 seconds of each improv and edited them all together to create what hopefully seems like one long improv where my self shape literally and conceptually changes over time. Looking back on it now, I can see the moments where big milestones appeared and new motifs were added - my heartburn kicked in halfway through, my hips started bothering me, I found out it was a girl and some of the movements took on a more feminine quality. I'm curious to know your impressions of it from the outside - what do you notice changing about my self-shape as the year progresses? In particular, where do you notice the bump? Music: "White Lotus," by Kevin MacLeod Dancer: Ellen Deutsch
Momentum120 / Art Assignment - Offering 15: “Take a Number”
It was time for another Momentum120 in rehearsal this week, so we once again turned to the Art Assignment's "What, How, Where" for a random prompt. The prompt we were given was: "count to ten while standing in line dancing" How could we pass that up? After having the dancers come up with a phrase comprised of 10 distinct movements, we stood them in line and played with different ways of structuring the piece. What we ended up with was a combination of accumulation and de-accumulation of the phrase, resulting in a perpetually-shifting back-and-forth where each dancer seems to be getting to the front of the line at some point only to be sent back again by the phrase. Enjoy! Music: "Green," by Action Figure Party Choreographed by the dancers: Lauren McKee, Patty Petronello Director: Ellen Deutsch
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a friend just noted all the ostriches in fantasia are boys and i am floored i never noticed. sissy that walk, ladies
only boy ostriches have black and white feathers, gang. it’s an ostrich drag ballet troupe. god bless america
‘when will there be a gay disney prince’ that prima ballerina ostrich has been holding it down since 1940 apparently
Female ostriches - light brown; males - black and white.
Well, damn. I never noticed they were all males in the film, and now I know something about ostriches that I am unlikely ever to forget. Thank you, Connor!
OH MY GOD.
Now let’s discuss Donald “Duck”.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the Ostrich version of the Trocks!
(aka Les Ballets Trockaderos de Monte Carlo, an all-male ballet company whose members dress in drag and do honestly amazing pointe work under very overly-Russian stage names. If you haven’t seen them yet, your day’s about to get much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F83BbbtoX8Q)
Goliath can't grow beards, they're pretty much hairless. Love the drawing, dragon head for scale is a nice touch.
Oh no, haha! I’m not that knowledgeable about these guys, as they came to prominence during a period of my life when I wasn’t playing D&D. I’ve noticed that most Goliath in official art don’t have beards, but I chalked that up to their relative youth (apparently high mortality keeps the average age low). The hairlessness must come up in official sources? I imagine there must be characters that feature in some of the novels. It makes some sense if they’re related to stone giants (traditionally bald in official art). I suppose this guy is from a racial offshoot that retained the human ability to grow beards? Thanks for the note.
You could also pull a Grog Strongjaw and say he’s got a Belt of Dwarvenkind on that lets him grow a beard ;-)
Reblog with the first live episode of Critical Role you watched.
I think it was episode 47, ‘The Family Business,’ but I can’t quite remember. It was somewhere in between 44 and 50, though, that’s for sure...
Critter Army Census Form
I HAVE FINALLY MADE THE FORM FOR ALL CRITTER PC’S! Eventually I will be having all this information avaliable to the public, I just want the form to be out first. Have fun!
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Username: (You can also add your real name if you so wish. This is also so I, and other Critters, can contact you if people want to pair up or if I have a question)
Character’s Name: (includes nicknames :) )
Gender: (Or how the character identifies)
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Class: (Can include homebrew)
Appearance: (Picture or description, if no picture I might contact you at a later date)
Level: (message me if there is a change in level and I shall update it in the census)
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Backstory: (History has it’s eyes on you :P )
Other Info: (Any other info that doesn’t fit into any of the above can be included here like sexual orientation, pronouns, familiars, weapon of choice, or any other info you have deemed important to the character :) )
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PLEASE TAG ME SO I CAN KEEP TRACK AND REMEMBER TO ADD YOU TO THE LIST! Also remember the #critter army census ! Anyone is welcome to fill out a form :) #lessthanthree everyone!
Ooh, this sounds like fun! Thanks @team0nster!
Username: on Tumblr I’m @geeksdanz, but I’m also Ellen from The Relic Shoppe which is how most Critters would probably know me - I make the Sarenrae holy charm that Ashley has gotten several of at this point ;-)
Character’s Name: Caalin Windrider
Gender: Female
Race: Desert Elf
Class: Started out as an Oracle with the Waves mystery in Pathfinder, now switched to a D&D 5e Warlock with a custom patron - The River Spirits.
Appearance: picture courtesy of fellow player @red-fathoms, who does awesome art of all our PCs :-)
Caalin appears to be your average, everyday desert elf, though she does seem to have a bit of the crazy-eyes going on. Her long straight hair tends towards wispy frizz, and both it and her clothing seem just a tad disheveled, as though she has just walked through a strong wind. She's pretty much incapable of making her hair behave itself, and no matter how carefully she arranges her many layers of clothing, moments later they are bunched up and out of whack again. This hasn't diminished her love of layering, though, and she frequently wears more different kinds of shirts or pants, or even hats, at once than strictly seems necessary. The overall effect is of someone who is certainly pleasant enough to be around, but there's just something slightly...off about her.
Level: Currently 9
Stats: STR 17, DEX 14, CON 12, INT 13, WIS 12, CHA 18
Backstory: Caalin was born and spent her childhood in the Iron City, a strange anomaly in the middle of the desert. The elves there, normally nomadic by nature, had settled and begun worshipping a god they called Na’dea who provided them with water. Caalin’s powers manifested at an early age, and since they were water-themed, she was seen as ‘goddess-touched’ and her eccentricities were tolerated. A few months ago, a traveling band of adventurers came through and in the process of pursuing their own goals, exposed Na’dea as a false goddess; a water nymph who had been tricking the locals into worshipping her. Na’dea was deposed and executed by the adventurers, and the elves began the slow process of figuring out how to live without her.
But Caalin’s powers did not go away. If she had truly been ‘goddess-touched,’ they would surely have subsided once their goddess was no more. There had to be some other source, but nobody knew who or what it was. The Iron City began to be a less-than-welcoming place for Caalin, with more cold stares and less friendly gestures than before. Finally, to the resigned sadness of her parents, she decided she had to leave. She spent some time alone in the desert, trying to reconnect with the way her people lived before Na’dea, and eventually joined up with her current team (another group from the same company as the ones who deposed Na’dea) as they traveled through the region on their way to parts unknown.
Her Oracle's gift has cursed her with incoherent ramblings; she will often talk to herself in Aquan when worried or stressed, and when she gets really stressed, she loses the ability to understand others as a film of ice and darkness seems to cloud her vision. In combat she can only speak and understand either Aquan or Abyssal (depending on the dice), which caused her to fight predominantly in silence at the beginning (since nobody could understand her anyway). This made her actions seem rather unpredictable, and her demeanor in general seem sort of dazed and out of touch. She’d often sort of wander into melee without realizing it and cast most of her spells without really thinking about them. But all that began to change once she met Horkus.
Horkus, the surly dwarf Magus who joined the team a few sessions in, has quickly become her best friend. Horkus loves to read and loves libraries, and spoke several languages fluently when they met her. Upon realizing that Caalin had communication problems during combat, Horkus promptly learned to speak Aquan and served as her translator, allowing her to feel connected to the group in a way she hadn’t before. Horkus also provides a calming influence on Caalin, allowing her to stave off the panic attacks that so often follow her lapsing into Aquan when stressed. With Horkus around she feels far more normal than she ever has before, and at this point, it’s safe to say she’d go wherever the dwarf goes, just to maintain that feeling of control.
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- The name ‘Caalin’ is based on the Somali word for ‘blizzard’ - I loved that there was a word in Somali for blizzard, and it fit beautifully with my central character concept of the juxtaposition of a desert elf with ice and water powers.
- Caalin carries a small Mythril weapon that she made during her rite of passage back in the Iron City. She remembers sort of zoning out during the forging part of the adulthood rites, becoming engrossed at the swirls of sand and rain outside the forge's window. When she snapped back to the present she realized that the blade of her dagger had curved far too much to one side in the fire, and the handle jutted out at an awkward angle. Rapidly running out of time, she dubbed the strange implement a sickle and pretended it had turned out exactly as intended. She never uses the thing these days, except as a spell casting focus, because her patron has granted her the ability to create weapons made of ice out of thin air, so she mostly just materializes a trident and throws it at things.
- Since beginning her journey with this adventuring group, Caalin’s powers have taken a decided turn for the dark. She gained the ability to speak Abyssal when stressed - though ‘ability’ might not be the right word, as she often ends up making strange proclamations of doom rather than anything helpful - and has gained powers that allow her to age people and objects dramatically, make them turn on each other or harm themselves, and pull the water out of their bodies, drying them into husks and increasing her own power. Naturally, these powers scare her more than a little bit, and she is constantly questioning what plan the River Spirits have in mind for her by granting them to her. What will she need these abilities for? What is her part to play in all of this? Caalin’s all-consuming fear is that her destiny is to turn evil and betray or kill her companions, and she expends considerable energy in trying to make sure that does not happen. She has informed her companions that if her ultimate demise comes as a result of her going dark, they should NOT bring her back unless they are absolutely sure they can do it without her coming back wrong.
Our understanding of color is based on relationships. It’s experiential and this is why the assignment is so interesting to me. We bring our baggage and experience to all color interactions.
The drawing casts symbolize ideals of beauty and culture. They are white plaster casts and are used to teach a way of seeing. The flayed arm represents the idea that color is skin deep. It’s not the surface that matters.
I added the color wheel behind the sculptures after viewing Sabina Joeck’s #theartassignment extra credit video. Her idea and presentation was elegant and honest, and made me look to my surroundings for something similar to include. The xerox of the color wheel hangs in my studio and was given to me in a pre-college summer art program back in 1985. It was in this pre-college program I first studied the Munsell color chart. An aged and yellowed color wheel; that lacks color, seemed appropriate for the assignment.
Another striking image coming out of the Whitescapes assignment. Interesting range of whites, to be sure, but such a strong composition. I keep thinking about lighting with this one, how strong light sources, flashes, etc., tend to obliterate information almost.
Striking indeed - I love the arm laid overtop of the heads. I’m fairly certain this exact pose has happened more than once in our Geeksdanz improvisations - such a suggestive thing to drape an arm over someone else’s head...
Art Assignment #60: Whitescapes - “Shades of Innocence”
We once again went a bit further away from the prompt for this art assignment, but we did accomplish what the assignment said to do in the process! The assignment was to place two white objects so that they overlapped each other, and try to describe the actual color of each white, then change the lighting and repeat the process. We found ourselves naturally thinking about costuming and stage lighting, since a lot of modern dance choreographers like to use white costumes and extremely-saturated lighting to turn the dancers different colors. We didn't have immediate access to a full-on light lab, but we could mimic some of those aspects in the studio, so that's what we did. We each brought as much white clothing to rehearsal as we could today, and then spread them all out and compared the color temperatures of the whites. You can see the picture we took of the collection at the end of the video. Then we each selected a costume to start with, thinking about layering different whites over top of each other. We did a long, half-hour improvisation using several different inspirations from the assignment: 1. Taking the liberty of switching out costume pieces whenever the mood struck us, 2. changing the lighting frequently, from overhead flourescents to daylight through the windows to backlit from the atrium outside and back again, and 3. Making a list, both before and during the improv itself, of words that we tend to associate with the idea of 'white'. From Ellen: "Connotations and symbolism are really important for a dancer or choreographer to consider when deciding on costumes, since no matter how little the choreographer cares about it, the audience most certainly will draw implications from the choice of costume. In particular, watching this piece back I couldn't help but think of the strong connotation of things like purity, youth, and innocence that the color white conveys. And the flowy skirt carries its own connotations, which are poignant and fluid. I noticed them particularly strongly when held up in front of my rapidly-growing pregnant belly, and when worn by our male dancer, Lamar. Something about a man in a dress always screams "MODERN DANCE!" to me...and seems odd even when I'm expecting it..." What connotations does this dance's white outfits give you? Music: selections from 'Songs for a New World' Dancers: Ellen Deutsch, Patty Petronello, Lamar Williams
Witty Street Art
Sydney-based street artist Michael Pederson’s creates quirky street art that is so subtle that it’s easy to walk past it without even knowing it’s there. He encourages people to take a closer look at their streets and neighbourhoods, and second guess some signs. “I think we travel through urban space without really seeing it most of the time,” Pederson told CityLab. “I like the idea of interfering with the overly familiar background blur … Ideally with something a passerby might see out of the corner of an eye.”
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tag urself: skools of magic edition im alchemy.
…I didn’t think I’d be abjuration, but here we are.
I guess I'm divination, though if there were an illusion spell that simulated divination, I feel like that's more like it...
There are two types of DM.
“You can’t do that.”
“*Sigh* Roll for it.”
And the third type, “(High-pitched) You wanna do WHAT?! (Laughs for 10 minutes) Fuck yes, roll for it.”
Proud Type Three DM
Proud Type Two/Type Three Hybrid DM here! Say yes or roll dice! ESPECIALLY if it’s funny!
Art Assignment #52: Exquisite Corpse - “Obstructed View”
This is another long one, I know. But we didn't want to shortchange the process, and we wanted to give it some time to develop. Definitely watch through to the end, if you have the time!
So we've talked about Exquisite Corpse before, and this assignment presented a great opportunity to try it as an improv game. We decided to do rotating solos, with each person doing a few minutes before leaving the room to retrieve the next dancer. We were stationed around the corner out in the hall, in a space where we couldn't see what was happening in the studio. We worked with the Assignment's idea of "leaving a clue," in the form of a handful of props. Our only indication of what had transpired was generally the arrangement of props, plus perhaps how hard the dancer was breathing when they came out ;-)
I called this one "Obstructed View" because it just so happens that despite not being able to see each other's work, we all incorporated elements of using the props to obstruct the camera's view of our movements, or using our bodies to obstruct the camera's view of the props.
Special bonus points to Patty, for pressing on when my finicky speaker system decided to stop working halfway through her first solo, and giving us a lovely silent moment.
Music: selections from Jonathan Coulton's "Thing A Week" series Dancers (in order of appearance): Ellen Deutsch, Patty Petronello, Lamar Williams
Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class
Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer.
Guys who make fun of ballet are stupid.
my legs hurt now
Also, ballet men have literally the most aesthetically pleasing body out of any other group of men I have ever encountered. And then can lift you over their heads!
Always wanted to try out. Martial arts game would def improve from it.
YO BUT OK i am a female ballet dancer and there are guys in my studio younger than me and by younger than me i mean like 12 or occasionally 11 because i am 13 and they can still lift me up and they dont even flinch they just pick me up like im a lil fairy its so impressive and they are 12 they are so great
Redefine masculinity
More like REFINED masculinity
thank you finally a post about male ballet dancers!! they’re so under-appreciated in the outside world, and no one understands how hard it is for them
male ballet dancers are so graceful and masculine …. normalize and increase the number of male ballet dancers…..
Thank you! People outside the industry need to realize how hard it is, and how ballet dancers are athletes just as much as sports players.
Not to mention, can YOU jump six feet in the air with your toes pointed?
