This week, our main focus was to devise a multitudinous amount of ideas about how we can structure our piece. Kate platts book, ' Choreography: Creating and Developing Dance for performance,' inspired us to contemplate the significance of the environment and atmosphere that we want to generate (Flatt.2019).
After developing our motif ideas from last week, we inaugurated a multitude of suggestions into what we want the audience to feel immediately as we step on stage. This concept accompanied us to our first potential idea on how to begin our choreography. After evolving mine and Storms translation task motif last week, we established that it will be an intense middle section due to the use of accumulation as well as our vigorous movements. More of our ideas have been noted below, but to conclude our idea, we wanted to portray mystery by having some moments of stillness to create a sinister atmosphere. Because of the unusual use of embellishment, we will have many pauses in our piece. This will contrast to end our section, where it's more chaotic and the movements will expand with the use of augmentation. We haven't decided on a specific ending, however, I believe that if we repeated the motif at the end, it will portray how us 'patients' are confined and we continue to be generalized.
In the second part of the lesson, we developed six gestures using the words 'controlled', 'isolated', 'trapped', 'insane', 'crazy', and 'fright'. Once we had choreographed a gesture, we explored how to enlarge them, making them more appealing and captivating.
I like how you have included questions that you and your group thought about with the final idea in mind. You also spoke about the use of choreographic devices, how do you think the use of choreographic devices will come across to the audience?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Megan. I think the use of choreographic devices throughout our piece will have a powerful and intriguing affect on the audience, especially at the very beginning where we will be using retrograde and cannon. Due to the unusual layout of our formation, and the moments of stillness, we will hope to create a sense of uncertainty. Furthermore, I want the audience to feel compelled into knowing what is our intention behind this piece, whilst also having their own interpretations. I believe that the use of choreographic devises will help the audience build emotion. For example, we want them to feel anxious and disturbed , therefore creating an engaging atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteWatching your choreography develop through your blogs is really interesting, you can really see your ideas starting to progress further. I love the fact you have referenced Kate's book which was mentioned in the lesson, did you find having this reference helpful?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Abigail. I did find Kate Platts book and reference very inspiring and helpful because it has made me see that choreography is not just abut coming up with a myriad of movements and motifs. Its thinking about the atmosphere around you and how you can emotionally portray the story or narrative behind your piece.
ReplyDeleteI like how you have included the videos from the lesson. Is there anything about the lesson you wish you would have done differently?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Sadie. If I had to change anything about this lesson and do anything differently, it would be to accumulate more ideas into how we could end our piece. As a group, we discussed that we wanted to captivate the audience from beginning to end, but we didn't solidify any movements that we could do to achieve this. Even though I am happy with the time we spent going over choreographic devises and formations, I would have liked to structure my time more efficiently.
ReplyDeleteYou mention above about using the choreographic technique of basing movements of words, do you think you will use this technique again when further choreographing movement?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Hannah. I would definitely use this technique again as the process of coming up with movement ideas was much quicker than I expected. With these words in mind, I could put my individuality into the movement and I felt confident with what I created.
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