Megan's Year 2 Choreography

  This week was our last session before our choreography assessment, we used this time to go over timings of our sections and changed any movements or transitions we felt could be better and cleaner. We then ran our piece a few times to ensure everything ran smoothly and that the new section worked with the music. Reflecting back on these past weeks of creating our choreography, I feel our starting objective has been achieved. Our piece set out to create a ten-minute piece based on conformity with the end message to the audience being: to not be afraid of your individuality.    Our piece portrays this message, as the first section is all about us being in unison and looking around to see what everyone is doing and if one person was to change or go at a different time, we would look at them as if they were wrong. The second section then shows us trying to break into our individuality and sees the use of more duets and improvisation to show this idea but we wanted to portra...

  In this blog, I will be reviewing and comparing two pieces which have inspired our group piece about conformity. The two pieces I will be reviewing are ‘Solo Echo’ by Crystal Pite and ‘Zero Degrees’ by Akram Khan.     We took inspiration from Crystal Pite’s ‘Solo Echo’ as Pite allows the dancers to move from their bodies, with one movement leading to the next and when watching it is really interesting as you don’t know what’s going to happen next or where the movement will go or develop. In the piece, they also created a lot of different shapes within the formations which makes the piece look really unique, especially when they use the choreographic device of canon with a simple movement of the head but they then develop this by the dancers going up a higher level each time they move their head, we incorporated something similar in our piece with our entrance. After researching into ‘Solo Echo’ and finding out that the piece is about love, loss as well as acceptance. (A...

  In this week’s choreography lesson, our group finished choreographing our final group piece and from feedback last week, we went over timing as well as adding dynamics to the piece.   The end section of our piece incorporates the opening movements of our entrance but in reverse order of who entered the stage. We decided using the first few movements from our entrance and then breaking into improv will portray to the audience the idea of breaking way from conformity and breaking into our individuality.   During Wednesday’s contemporary lesson, all three groups performed their groups and received feedback from the other groups watching, our feedback included: -        The different formations in the piece included were effective. -        The different movements incorporated were also effective.   -        As a group, we need to work on timing and making it clear when someone is...

   In this week’s choreography lesson, we continued to add more onto our group piece, as well as sort out timing and counts for sections already created. The Sunday before this week’s lesson, our group split into our house hold groups to create some more movements and motifs for our piece and taught each other these during this week’s lesson, as a group we have now finished choreographing for our first song and have now moved onto the second song. Myself and daisy created a minute’s worth of movement by using The Chance Method, the idea behind this section was to show the audience the stress and anxiety we feel as humans to fit in with today’s society. When going into further research of stress and anxiety we found some of the symptoms included: feeling breathless, shaking and sweaty palms, this shows the fear of conforming and having to follow the crowd instead of breaking free as an individual. For The Chance Method we picked three words that related to our stimulus and crea...

  In this week’s session, as a group we recapped our choreography and discussed what our plan was going ahead. We decided to work on our entrance and set who was entering the stage when, we also added the use of cannon with the simple movement of the head and we felt this worked really well within our piece.    As well as, we decided on our music for our choreography, we will be using two separate tracks and put these together for our final piece. We chose the music: Everything Must Change by Oliver Arnalds and Clouds The Mind on the (Re) Wind by Ezio Bosso.   As a group, we felt these two tracks were very different however, still worked so well together and with our idea of an episodic structure in our choreography as the music mirrors the contrast between conformity and individuality which shows a narrative element within our piece.   After recapping our choreography and working out the counts for the beginning section, we added on a new section which was simp...

    Due to self-isolation I wasn’t in this week’s choreography lesson, however I was able to talk to my group  as we reflected and spoke about this week’s lesson and how our choreography is going to progress over the next few weeks. During this week’s choreography lesson, my group started to look at music choices for our piece, I was also able to do this from home to help out, as a starting point we decided to look at film soundtracks as well as neo-classical pieces of music. My group also worked out how much material we had created so far as the finished piece will be 10-15 minutes, they worked out we had created 1 minute 30 and this is a great starting point as some of this will be repeated throughout the piece as well. They then had a new task of creating a new motif for our piece, their motif was inspired by a Crystal Pite piece called Solo Echo, which I have linked the clip to below. Once they had created this motif, they performed it to the other two groups where th...