Developing Motifs & Feedback
Week 6
This week we unfortunately didn’t have Megan or Daisy with us in class so this encouraged us to be creative and find ways to insert them into the sections later on. In today’s session, we were able to choreograph our “duet” section, it starts off with us in duets using fast and intricate movements that were inspired by Crystal Pite’s ‘Solo Echo’ (timestamp 0:15- 0:18). We have also learned to use this style of choreography before in our contemporary classes where we would do contact improv and have to react to the other person's movements. I really like this idea because it’s interesting to see how someone else’s movements can physically impact our own and how our bodies naturally react to this. Our movements in this section involve pushing each other away, catching each other and almost this idea of fighting. This reflects the psychological conflict one might face when wanting to escape peer pressure or conformity, therefore strongly conveying our stimulus. After this lesson, we sent a video of this section to the girls who weren’t here and Daisy was able to come up with a really complementary piece to dance next to us during this part: https://youtu.be/8_q4LANitfk
While choreographing we also took this opportunity to develop some of the motifs and gestures from last lesson. In the parts after the duet section we perform a series of movements that we repeat twice however, during each repetition there is one person who performs one movement slightly differently and this shows how we are trying to break away from the idea of conformity.
At the end of this session, each group showed the other groups what they had choreographed in order to get feedback. I really enjoyed watching the other groups as it was interesting to see how they developed the ideas they presented a few weeks ago into choreography. After we had performed our section, we were told that our stimulus was clearly conveyed- this was really encouraging to hear because it was only a short section however the audience were clearly able to see what our piece was about. Another one of our peers mentioned that we need to focus on refining the counts of every movement so that it looks clean and uniformed. This part of the session was really useful as it was helpful to have a fresh set of eyes and a new perspective looking at what we had choreographed.
In our next session, we hope to finalise our music choices and update the other girls on what we had choreographed today.
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Very detailed blog post Caitlins! It was a shame part of your group was missing, what was challenging about this and how did you overcome those challenges?
ReplyDeleteThank you! It was quite challenging but we were able to choreograph in the studio, and the girls were able to choreograph in their house. We then put them together and it worked really well.
DeleteIt was a shame that part of your group was missing but you worked really well to stay productive by creating a duet and also carrying on the choreography without them, well done! I like the idea of using contact improvisation as it will be a good way to come up with original movements. Do you have any ideas for music yet?
ReplyDeleteThank you! we have a few options right now, but we're looking for some really interesting pieces that evoke the emotions we want from the audience. We are currently looking at music from Max Richter and Olafur Arnalds for inspiration as these are very engaging composers.
DeleteI very much enjoyed your reasoning for the use of Solo Echo as inspiration - it is very interesting! What were your observations of the other groups, and how could you use them to strengthen your piece?
ReplyDeleteThank you, both of the other groups have such interesting stimuli. Watching what they have so far is really thought provoking when you put their movement into context and we want our audience to also watch our piece and think the same.
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