Evaluative blog

In this blog I will be discussing the progression me, and my group have made over the term. I will also be showing the challenges we faced and how we overcame them.

Overall, I think my group has made a lot of progress and has created a very good piece of choreography. However, along the way we have faced a few challenges. A main challenge we faced was time management. Due to having a short amount of time to create the 10-minute piece it was already a struggle to choreograph a well thought out and clean piece. However, our group often got stuck on ideas or processes which took up some of our well needed lesson time. To combat this, we decided to make a plan of what we were going to do in each lesson and how we were going to do it. For example, we set a plan to choreograph the beginning section by using the dice method. This was an effective way to keep track of time. Another challenge we faced was losing track of our stimulus. Leading on from the last challenge, due to the small amount of time we had we often rushed to create movement and settled with steps that just fit with the previous movement. However, we quickly realised that these sections did not portray the wanted feeling to the audience therefore we changed these to fit in with the idea of the piece. We also reflected on previous lessons and used some of those processes to create movement. For example, used the method where you pick a word formulated by looking at the picture which is our stimulus and using it to create a small gesture.

I do believe that a lot of our original ideas changed as we began to choreograph the piece. For example, our original idea of the beginning of us slowly coming onto stage changed and we ended up all beginning on stage with a strong and intense beginning. The idea of us slowly coming onto stage was used later on in the dance. This was because we really wanted to make an impact on the audience as soon as we entered the stage. Through the whole of the choreographing process we wanted the audience to feel the eerie atmosphere we aimed to achieve. We wanted them to feel creeped out by us but also a sense of sympathy when we perform a slower and more controlled piece of movement to show the element of being trapped. I feel like my group achieved this as from the peer feedback we were informed that some of them had got goose bumps from the piece. This is an incredibly happy feeling that we have achieved a goal we aimed for. All throughout the process my personal goal has to work on my facial expression. I have been told I am improving on these therefore I hope that on the day I show the intensity of the dance on my face like my peers are.

Overall, I am very pleased with what our group has achieved. We have faced some challenges which we have overcome and we are still working to improve out piece so that it can reach its full potential however I believe we have achieved the goals we aimed for in the beginning.