This week, we received feedback from our teacher, giving us some areas to focus on to improve our choreography. Below are some of the corrections that we got given:
To start with, we concentrated on timing and the clarity of each movement so our dynamics matched the sinister undertones of the music. Furthermore, we wanted to ensure that we were all together in our unison sections, as that's the most salient point of our piece that will encapsulate our stimulus due to the harsh, expedience lines.
We also developed a new phrase which will mark the end of our piece with the idea of all of us being victimized and trapped in a cycle that we are trying to extricate from. To illustrate an ongoing struggle, we decided to embody the concept of wearing straitjackets to convey how confined we feel and the exasperation we go through each day to make our voices heard. To show this aggravation, we decided to use unison and different levels to create eye-catching patterns but also to show that we have relinquished our fight to be treated normally, https://youtu.be/PHrxPCr9G7k. We found this part of our choreography hard to come up with the movement as we all agreed that a myriad of movement is terminated from the arms and that's the main way you portray your emotions. By having our arms behind our back for this part made us realise that we need to exaggerate the use of the upper body and refine all leg movements. To improve this section further, I believe that we should continue working on our timing and expand the movements further in order to portray a sense of urgency.
This week, we also developed some other sections of our piece including the memory loss section. To do this, we used the translation task until we got some pieces of movement that suited the undertones of the music, whilst also maintaining a focus on our stimulus. By using the translation method, we gradually accumulated many ideas that we used throughout the piece. What we did like about this method was that our individual characteristics and style became evident, which therefore meant we could fully relate to each movement as we were confident with what we produced. Because it was a more systematic way of working, we accomplished more in that lesson.
Further into the week, we performed our completed choreography to the class and got some feedback from them which is below, https://youtu.be/jewiHGU5yKk.I found this to be extremely beneficial for clarifying our piece as some of the comments that were made weren't initially noticed by my group. For the upcoming weeks, my group have decided to go through each section meticulously and to develop or incorporate anything. I am happy that we performed in front of the class as a fresh set of eyes really helped determine the positives and negatives of our choreography.
This is a very detailed and interesting blog. I like how you have included your corrections from last week. What are you and your group going to work on in the next few lessons working up to assessments?
ReplyDeleteWell done for this blog Lucy, I can really see the progress you and your group have made each week. You have explored how you have approached your feedback in great detail and I can see that you have taken on board what has been said. How did you find receiving feedback and analysing this? Did this process help with the final details of your piece?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Sadie. My group have discussed that we are going to go through each section in meticulous detail to make sure we are all doing the same movements. One of the most important pieces of feedback we are going to work on is our facial expressions, as that makes the piece come to life. When we get tired, we tend to loose the sinister expression, so we are going to run it a multitudinous amount of times and carry our facial expressions all the way through.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Abigail. I found the feedback extremely informative and detailed and it was interesting to see other peoples opinion form an outside perspective. Because we have been working on our piece for a while, it gets more difficult to examine any minor details so to have a fresh pair of eyes to correct our choreography was beneficial. This process did help us with the more intricate details of our choreography, especially when we do the same movements but individually spaced around the room. Because we cant see each other, its hard to know if we are doing them with the same timing or dynamics so to have multiple eyes watching helped enormously.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this blog Lucy. Especially reading through the section based on the idea of being in 'straightjackets'. Did you find dancing without your arms challenging or not as bad as you thought it would be?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Hannah. I found dancing in 'straitjackets' very difficult as many movements are usually innated from the legs and upper body, but because we was restricted in doing this, we had to think about how we could exaggerate our emotions and narrative. Even though it was difficult, I was so immersed in the movement and story behind our piece, I didn't think about how challenging it was. I believe my group found it harder to come up with movements with the idea of being in a straitjacket, but when we consolidated many ideas preforming them wasn't an issue.
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