After being put into our final choreography groups, the first half of the lesson was used to talk about our chosen stimulus idea with the rest of the class. My group discussed how we were inspired by week one's task of looking at idiosyncratic images and evoking movement out of them. We came across this photo of a dark corridor and examined our thoughts on it, whilst keeping in mind how it made us feel. Because the photo is exceedingly airy, we integrated our ideas about seclusion and concealment to come up with the idea of a mental asylum.
After the whole class had shared their ideas, we got onto developing our choreography. We split our group into two and were given the task of producing a small motif which illustrates our stimulus idea. Storm and I agreed that it would be beneficial to use the transition task that we did last week to help inspire our movements. We came up with the words 'confined' and 'restricted'. This is portrayed at the very beginning when we reach our hand out and grab it with our other hand. We wanted to express the idea of the patients having limitations, whilst also demonstrating that everything is a challenge and there are many obstacles during their daily routines.
When both groups had finalized their motif, we got together and learnt each others set choreography. We voiced our developing ideas for future choreography lessons and started connecting our phrases together. All of the small motifs we did were in unison as we wanted to make it look sinister and dramatic. Overall, I am delighted with how my group's choreography is coming along and we have an array of ideas which I am excited to reveal in our assessment. One aspect we need to work on is our facial expressions, however, when we are more confident with our piece I believe it will come naturally.
Youtube links:
https://youtu.be/n1K4m9_UL1U- Lucy and Storms motif
https://youtu.be/R2aBKl-D5yw- - Sadies, Bellas and Hannahs first motif
https://youtu.be/zNuGcEYPQD8- Sadies, Bellas and Hannahs second motif
Bibliography: information about The Pilgrim psychiatric Centre
https://www.grunge.com/237866/what-really-went-on-behind-closed-doors-at-the-worlds-largest-asylum/
References:
Dreamstime. n.d. Scary Hospital Corridor Stock Photos. [online] Available at: <https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/scary-hospital-corridor.html> [Accessed 27 November 2020].
Your group's stimulus idea sounds extremely interesting for a piece of choreography and the variety of ideas that you have researched and explored already shows what an inspiring source this is going to be for you. Is there anything from you research so far that you would like to look into further to help drive your ideas for choreography?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Daisy. I would love to do further research into certain gestures that some patients did in hospitals such as The Pilgrim state Hospital. I believe this would benefit our choreography as it would elucidate our main focus about how some people can't control their behaviour or physical actions.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you have used the image to help with your idea and how you have also gone into further research. You spoke about how you started your choreography, how did you find this? And did the chosen words help when choreographing?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Megan. I found starting my choreography by using an image to be a really effective way to begin, as we had a lot of practise of this method in week one. I believe it helps stimulate a lot of unique thoughts that are more outside the box. In addition to this, I feel like you can connect with the image on a personal level which helps influence movement. Furthermore, the words that we chose did help develop our choreography as from them, we created small gestures and then expanded them into larger movements, accumulating many transitional movement ideas along the way.
ReplyDeleteI found reading your blog very interesting and I love your layout and presentation it makes the blog more appealing. Your groups stimulus idea is really interesting and very different and loved the variety of ideas you formed. How did you find coming up with a final idea?
ReplyDeleteYou also mentioned about starting to link some of your choreographed motifs together, how was this?
Thank you for your comments Abigail. I found it enjoyable coming up with our final idea because I have read a lot about these certain places and the historical background engrosses me. I find it enjoyable learning about the different places and ways people used to treat "mental patients" and how much we have progressed into the methods we use, (non harmful). A soon as we chose our image of the sinister corridor, I instantly had the idea of an mental asylum and a myriad of ideas came flooding into my head with all the information and facts I have recollected. Responding to your further question, I found linking our choreographed motifs challenging as we want to be able to make our stimulus clear without the need for unnecessary transition movements.
ReplyDeleteAfter hearing other groups ideas , did you feel as if you could add to their ideas and inspire them with a new outlook of their stimulus?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Sadie. I felt as though I could develop and interpret ideas for each group due to every group having a different stimulus. I was fascinated with all their developed ideas, especially the 'War' stimulus and I wanted to add so many of my thoughts about how they could arrange the piece as have always been engrossed with that topic.
ReplyDeleteI think adding in the pictures of your personal notes really helped me gather more of an idea of your stimulus. Referring back to the motifs that you and your group created, do you think you will definetly use them in your choreography
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Hannah. My group will definitely use these motifs in our choreography as we believed they encapsulated our stimulus perfectly. The use of intricate hand gestures and impulsive movements demonstrate that we want to beak free from the restrictions and control that we are under, but we find it hard to escape out of that cycle.
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