Week 7 - Continuing Our Choreography

 

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 simple but very effective. We used the idea of walking and one person doing something different which made the others look or repeated it a count later, this is something we can repeat later in the piece but with the use of different formations as well as more people wanting to break into their individuality. 

 



These are some of the youtube links to our choreography: 


https://youtu.be/4bPOBjbaiP4

Comments

  1. Eloisa Goodall7 November 2020 at 06:37

    This blog post shows that you and your group have been working hard to create effective work for your piece and I enjoyed watching your progress. What are any recent challenges you have faced and how did you overcome them?

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    1. Megan Foster8 November 2020 at 08:28

      Thankyou for your comment! We have faced a challenge with putting the choreography to music as it is counted in six’s whereas, we had been choreographing in eights. We overcame this as a group by going back and ensuring we all knew the new counts and made sure we choreographed in six’s for the new sections.

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  2. Mhairi Wallace10 November 2020 at 14:00

    It's really interesting to see how your group is coming together, I like how you are utilising the motifs you created and developing them with choreographic devices. Your music choices are very interesting, they have been clearly thought out to link back to your stimulus! What do you want the audience to feel during your entrance? How will this capture the audience?

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    1. Megan Foster15 November 2020 at 05:33

      Thankyou for your comment! As a group we want the entrance to be intriguing for the audience as well as relatable as conformity is something that happens to so many people. I feel the use of cannon and sharp movements will help portray this and capture the audience.

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  3. caitlyn francisco27 November 2020 at 02:20

    In the video, you can clearly show how the stimulus is presented and I'm sure this will be amplified with your music choices. Were there any particular aspects/ features of the music that really drew you to them or perhaps relate to your stimulus?

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    1. Megan Foster27 November 2020 at 02:41

      Thankyou Caitlyn! There are certain aspects of the music which allows us all to do the same movement on that specific part. For example when we’re improvising, there is a section when we all stop and do the same motif but all on different levels and facing different ways.

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