Welcome!
CopperClock is Letty Limbach and Sarah Kate Moore; we are located in Seattle, WA. We strives to create dynamic, vibrant and mischievous tribal fusion that draws on many forms of world dance.
Below, you'll find our blog where we'll be discussing creativity, choreography, and all things bellydance (plus anything else that might strike our fancies.)
Learning Choreography
March 15th, 2010
Having just returned from an intense (and productive!) rehearsal with Letty, I decided the time was right to talk about choreography—specifically, about learning someone else’s choreography and remembering it.
First of all, there’s something you should know about me: I am terrible at learning choreography. It is just one of those things—like learning languages—that I adore but at which I am woefully bereft of natural talent. There are lots of lucky people that have great memories for choreography and conjugating irregular French verbs, but I am not one of those people. So learning Letty’s new choreography1 these past couple of weeks has been a major challenge for me. Needless to say, I’ve been thinking about ways to lock those combinations into my brain.
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Influence and Imitation
March 01st, 2010
Back in September of last year, I was working on my first choreography that wasn’t a collaboration with someone else and I found myself struggling with the concept of originality.
I have a few confessions to make to you, dear readers: I love Balkan music. I love The Indigo. I love Zafira. And now, I find myself creating dances that are heavily influenced by all of the above.
I’ve read a few blogs that consider the issue of originality (at least indirectly) in fusion and/or tribal fusion bellydance, how there is a consistent/considerable push for doing something no one else has done. On the other side of things, I have seen a few discussions on tribe generated from youTube videos of dances that are obvious imitations (sometimes downright plagiarisms) of other dancer’s choreography. There seem to be quite a mix of opinions about the ethics surrounding this. For me, there are different levels of copycatting, which, in my own obsessive way, I break down into three steps.
Establishing a Practice
February 11th, 2010
For my first blog post, I thought I’d write about practice habits. Like so many belly dancers, I struggle with balance in my life—in my case balancing school, work, and dance training. It can be difficult to balance my life as a grad student with my dance life, not to mention to maintain relationships with my friends and family and take care of myself! In this way, I’m like most belly dancers—struggling to make dance a priority and still manage to do my life and keep my sanity.
CopperClock, the Illustrious History of
January 24th, 2010
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to the first official blog post of CopperClock bellydance. I was struggling with what might make an appropriate, exciting, and interesting introductory post when I had my own little “I have found it!” moment, which reflected nothing so genius as Archimedes realizing how to determine the proportion of base metal in Hiero’s golden crown and certainly didn’t end with me running naked through the streets of ancient Syracuse. However, were I a cartoon, you likely would have seen a lightbulb appear beside my head as I realized that an almost perfect first post might consist of how our (devious, daring, delicious?) duet was first formed…so, onward to: CopperClock, the Illustrious History of.