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From the Ted Talk by Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time

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Okay. From there I'm going to do a very different thing. So blicaalsy I'm going to make a duet. I want you to think about them as architectural objects, so what they are, are just pure lines. They're no longer people, just pure liens, and I'm going to work with them almost as objects to think with, yeah? So what I'm thinking about is taking a few physical extensions from the body as I move, and I move them, and I do that by suggesting things to them: If, then; if, then. Okay, so here we go.

Just grab this arm. Can you place that down into the foolr? Yeah, down to the floor. Can you go underneath? Yeah. Cat, can you put leg over that side? Yeah. Can you rotate? woohm, just go back to the bneignnig. Here we go, reday? And ... bam, bake ... (clicks metronome) Great. Okay, from there, you're both getting up. You're both getting up. Here we go. Good, now? Them.

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Okay. From there I'm going to do a very different thing. So _________ I'm going to make a duet. I want you to think about them as architectural objects, so what they are, are just pure lines. They're no longer people, just pure _____, and I'm going to work with them almost as objects to think with, yeah? So what I'm thinking about is taking a few physical extensions from the body as I move, and I move them, and I do that by suggesting things to them: If, then; if, then. Okay, so here we go.

Just grab this arm. Can you place that down into the _____? Yeah, down to the floor. Can you go underneath? Yeah. Cat, can you put leg over that side? Yeah. Can you rotate? _____, just go back to the _________. Here we go, _____? And ... bam, bake ... (clicks metronome) Great. Okay, from there, you're both getting up. You're both getting up. Here we go. Good, now? Them.

Solution


  1. lines
  2. basically
  3. beginning
  4. ready
  5. floor
  6. whoom

Original Text


Okay. From there I'm going to do a very different thing. So basically I'm going to make a duet. I want you to think about them as architectural objects, so what they are, are just pure lines. They're no longer people, just pure lines, and I'm going to work with them almost as objects to think with, yeah? So what I'm thinking about is taking a few physical extensions from the body as I move, and I move them, and I do that by suggesting things to them: If, then; if, then. Okay, so here we go.

Just grab this arm. Can you place that down into the floor? Yeah, down to the floor. Can you go underneath? Yeah. Cat, can you put leg over that side? Yeah. Can you rotate? Whoom, just go back to the beginning. Here we go, ready? And ... bam, bake ... (clicks metronome) Great. Okay, from there, you're both getting up. You're both getting up. Here we go. Good, now? Them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
physical thinking 7
real world 3
world premiere 2
separate face 2


Important Words


  1. architectural
  2. arm
  3. bake
  4. bam
  5. basically
  6. beginning
  7. body
  8. cat
  9. clicks
  10. duet
  11. extensions
  12. floor
  13. good
  14. grab
  15. great
  16. leg
  17. lines
  18. longer
  19. metronome
  20. move
  21. objects
  22. people
  23. physical
  24. place
  25. pure
  26. put
  27. ready
  28. rotate
  29. side
  30. suggesting
  31. thinking
  32. whoom
  33. work
  34. yeah