Week 8

 

In this week’s session, our main focus was to create an entrance to the piece. We decided it would be a good idea to add a more minimal entrance to the beginning of the piece so that the choreography does not reach its climax near the start of the piece. We referred back to our stimuli of the corridor which led us to begin standing in a line one behind the other towards the audience. We thought this would portray that we are stood in said corridor due to us being in a precise line. We also began to think deeper into what the parallel line could show. We came up with the idea of how it shows the loss of individuality and freedom, like individuals who are put into a mental asylum, due to us all repeating the same movements at the same time. We decided that we would start with small and slow movements which would eventually grow and become bigger to show distress and create a creepy mood for the audience. I referred back to Kate Flatt’s book which encouraged me to really think about the mood set for the audience in the beginning of our choreography. 

To create the small movements we used a method which we were shown before in class. We looked at the photo of the corridor and each thought of a word we would use to describe the feeling they got from the image. Then individually we thought of two movements to show this word. We then came together to learn each movement and numbered them. We then rolled a die in order to create the order of the movements. Once we had this short phrase , we added choreographic devices such as repetition to make the movement more interesting and eye catching for the audience.

Overall, in this class i believe that me and my group made a lot of progress. I think we are doing well to keep on track with the idea of the stimulus due to it being easy to lose sight of what the piece is about. Next session i believe we should create an ending to the piece so that then we can keep rehearsing in order for the choreography to be clean and to make sure we know it well.