Week 6 - New Motif

  

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 they then received positive and constructive feedback, some of the feedback they received was:

-      Conformity came across, able to see the stimulus through the movement.


-      Precision on movements more as well as counts.


-      Stronger accents on movements.


Over the next few weeks after half term, we will continue to work as a group to create new movement ideas and motifs and I’m really looking forward to see how our piece progresses and builds up to our final idea.

 

The link for the Crystal Pite piece is: 

https://youtu.be/6JfokSokH0M

The link to the choreography created this week is: 

https://youtu.be/dCKMh9azsGY

Comments

  1. Eloisa Goodall2 November 2020 at 11:24

    Your group work is progressing nicely it seems and you have acknowledged the feedback given, on self reflection/from the video of your group work, where do you feel you could improve on other than the comments from the group?

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    1. Megan Foster4 November 2020 at 10:28

      Thankyou for your comment! I feel overall we need to manage our time better to allow us to add more on each week, this includes staying over at school as well as working individually to create movement and motifs.

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  2. Mhairi Wallace10 November 2020 at 13:56

    It's really good that you managed to communicate with your group to continue with your choreography process. You mentioned that your group received feedback which you will work on. How do you feel about receiving feedback from your classmates? Why do you feel it is important to have feedback during your choreography process?

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    1. Megan Foster15 November 2020 at 05:30

      Thankyou for your comment! I feel it’s really good and effective to get feedback from our peers as they might have ideas or ways that we can show our stimulus more. I feel it’s important to get feedback during the choreography process as we can continue to work on it instead of getting to the last week and having to change everything.

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  3. caitlyn francisco27 November 2020 at 02:17

    You have worked really well and been productive during this time, well done! If you were to choose another work or style from a practitioner, who would you choose and why?

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    1. Megan Foster27 November 2020 at 02:38

      Thankyou! As a group, we have watched Wayne McGregor’s Ted Talk and seen how he goes about choreographing and creating his pieces, so I feel he would be a great inspiration for our piece.

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