Choreography - year 2

  Evaluating the piece – Lesson 10 After performing our choreography last week, we received some feedback this was to make our initial changes before performing. The changes we made were the following: -           Transition into geometric shape motif and from the geometric shape into walking clump -           Section of unison Megan and Daisy household motif was added so the second time we repeat it it's different and more abstract -           Statue/ New movement when the duets are being performed in the 2 nd piece of music -           The ending added and cleaned up the motifs and created a more impactful section to link within the music and to shorten the improvisation at the end By making these changes I believe that we referred to the feedback is given and took what was said on board ...

  Practitioner influence Crystal Pite   Crystal Pite is a Canadian choreographer; her first professional debut was in 1990 and since then she has created over fifty pieces for many different companies (ROH Biography, 2020) The way she approaches choreography is by building a choreographic phrase, she starts by using basic movement to start such as a mini combination then expanding and enlarging the movements by recognizing the feeling behind this. Her aim she wants her work to have on the audience is for their “eyes to be bouncing around the dancer” (CBC Arts, 2018). Also, as a choreographer she grounds her work on the specifics, she aims to work with the “strengths and abilities” of the dancers she is working with. She explained this in an interview on one of her pieces ‘Flight Pattern’, Pite mentioned that since having a child and becoming a mother she has completely changed the outlook on life and explains how she feels “more aware, more passionate, more terrified and mor...

  Anylasing Feedback and creating choreography – lesson 9   In today's lesson as a group we read through our feedback given by Miss Evans and expressed our thoughts and opinions. She made some of the following points: -Timing throughout piece needs more work - Show contrasts between dynamics and expansion on movement through whole body on some phrases - beep section can be dragged out longer   After reviewing the learning objectives of the module as a class, we then were given time to see how wd approach the feedback given. As a group we thought it was best to focus on the timing and dynamics of the 1 st section to make sure this was clean before creating anymore material. In my opinion going through the counts and dynamics of this section in more depth and cleaning it made a difference in how we performed it and the presentation of the movement to the audience. We then worked out how to expand movements further so they are more involved with the whole body...

  Developing choreography further- Lesson 8 In today's lesson as a whole year group, we structured out a plan of goals to achieve up until our assessment date. The weekend before this lesson we spent our weekend choreographing new motifs and getting at least 5 minutes of choreography complete. This is shown in the link below: As a group we worked out what our two pieces of music were expressing, our first piece -Everything must change being set on conformity, and our second piece- Clouds set on individuality. We choose these ideas as it gives a definite aim for each half of the piece and allows us to work on the episodic structure for each section. Our choreographic intention is to highlight conformity within society using a lot of unison sections as well as enhancing individuality by adapting motifs and creating new motifs with a different dynamic. During this week we finished choreographing a draft to the first piece of music with a set structure by the end of this work as ...

  Creative Session Expanding ideas- Lesson 7 At the start of this lesson, we came to a final decision on our music choice. This was choosing these two pieces Olafur Arnalds ‘Everything must change’ and Ezio Bosso ‘Clouds, the mind on the Wind’ to edit them together to have the perfect music for our choreography.   This idea of an episodic structure in our choreography is clearly mirrored here in our contrasting pieces of music that furthermore show a narrative element in our piece. We then moved on to finishing the entrance of our piece and finding a way to make it work which then was able to highlight our stimulus to the audience. Once we had finalized our entrance, we then decided what we wanted to choreograph from this section, we decided to try fitting the household motif inspired by Crystal pike but only one part of this motif which we felt flowed on from the entrance. Carrying on from this section we added the Geometric shape motif which was developed from Megan and ...