Megan's Year 2 Choreography

    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...

    In this week’s choreography lesson, we recapped the three motifs we created in pairs last week and made sure we knew all three motifs. The motifs came from three different words, these were: uncertain, influence and connection. My word was connection and we wanted to show the idea of connection through the mind instead of actually touching, so we decided to use gestures but moving as if our hands were stuck together.   Once we had recapped in this week’s lesson, we had ten minutes to discuss and think about how we could use these three motifs in our choreography as well as with a formation. We tried out a few different ideas for each motif and we were really happy with one of the motifs for the word influence  and we decided that would be the opening of our choreography piece.    We then sat down as a class and had a look at the book ‘Choreography: Creating and Developing Dance for Performance’ by Kate Flatt, we looked at page 158 which led to...

    In last week’s lesson we were put into our choreography groups, in my group is myself, Daisy, Abi, Devanshi, Mhairi and Caitlyn. At the end of last week’s lesson, we brainstormed some ideas for our group piece and later in the week Daisy sent us a variety of pictures and we were all interested in the picture below, this is an art piece by Lena Macka  (Gillespie, 2019).  We found this interesting as even though the people in the picture weren’t touching, they were all still connected because they were all holding onto a line or piece of string which kept them as one.   From this picture we then thought of the idea about social experiments, this was a very interesting topic and allowed us to do a lot of research, where we came across two different experiments one called the Asch Experiment and the other being the Bystander Effect. We were particularly intrigued with the Asch Experiment, which happened in the 1950’s, it was a test where subjects were asked to c...

    In this week’s choreography lesson, we started a new task in our groups which was called the translation task.    For this task we had to stand in a line, the three people at the back of the line looked away whilst the person at the front of the line got given a word which they then had to create one count of eight of movement to. Once the person at the front of the line created their movement, they then showed the second person in the line the movement twice, this then got passed onto the third and then the fourth but they could only see the movement once.  Once everyone in the line had learnt the movement, the last and first person would dance it together and then as a group we could see where movement has changed or where it differs. We repeated this process four times, so everyone had a chance to make up a movement as well as learn it.     We then learnt the original and new motif for all four words; they varied from heavy, gather, itchy a...

    In this week’s lesson of choreography, we were in our five house groups again and we all had to bring in a stimulus, we then did the same task as last week and we wrote ideas, thoughts and feelings about each other’s stimulus, we spent two minutes on each one, it was a very interesting task as everyone's stimuli was different. As a class, we then said a word each for each stimulus and if we found any of the words interesting or we liked them we wrote them down.    At the end of the discussion we had to choose three words from across all the stimuli, our group chose the words: Sinister, Blindness and Protection. We decided on these words as we thought they were very different to one another however, they would still work and link well as they contrast.    After choosing our three words, we then had to create four different movements for each word and these could vary from a hand gesture to one count of eight. Once we had created all the movements, we num...

  During this lesson in choreography, we got into our house groups which consisted of five separate groups. In these five groups, we were given an image which was an art piece as a political tool. For each picture we had three minutes to write any thoughts, feelings or ideas of what we thought the image could portray, as we got to the last few pictures it got harder to think of different ideas to what everyone else had already said and this was where we really had to think outside of the box and look further into the pictures.    As a class, we then discussed each image and what our thoughts were, we then were told what each image actually represented and this is when we learnt they were all art as a political tool. After our discussion, we decided between our selves one image to create a sequence of four counts of eight.    My group chose the image below which is was about a protest in Chile for women’s rights. We used the move on the image as a starting point ...