Final Performance Evaluation:

Final Performance Evaluation: 

I am very proud of what my group and I created. The final performance was a fulfilling one, the hours dedicated to rehearsal, work and research eventually payed off. We successfully produced a piece that was passionately full of emotion, creative ideas and choreographic devices and processes... which all contributed to the delivery of our stimulus and messages. Although the initial task to create 10 minutes of choreography seemed daunting, we managed a steady and productive plan to stay on track, giving us plenty of time to clean our piece to the best of our abilities. 

I have thoroughly enjoyed working with my group and learning how to work in a team, an important quality to have in a dance career. Some took more leading roles however everyone contributed hugely. Always open to new ideas, we encouraged one another to experiment with movement pathways and formations. I personally feel I pushed myself out of my comfort zone in this module, as I often stepped up to communicate my thoughts and actively searched for greater depth and meaning in our movements.  

 If I were to retain or use any qualities I have learnt in the last 10 weeks in a future choreographic project, it would be allowing movement creativity to be guided by the messages and feeling we are wanting to convey. I found this mindset formed much of the highlights in our work for example, the PTSD section, the spontaneous gassing I performed and the final Respect section. 

It was through connecting our choreography and our characterisation that ignited the passion we exuberated in our performance. A stimulus we were all passionate about encouraged us to do well, we wanted to provide some level of respect to all soldiers. I believe our final performance did so. 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 1:

Image
 Lesson 1: Art Political Tool  Today's class was designed to exercise our interpretive skills, develop our ability to work efficiently in a team and test our creativity when given an open field of possibilities. Six picture-stimuli were given, all sharing a common theme: political disruption. The first task, in small groups, was to spend three minutes per stimulus annotating the page with our thoughts, opinions and questions. The time pressure made us operate rapidly, pushing us to use our imaginations and creativity.  However, maintaining momentum became more challenging as the pages began to fill. At this point, we had to work especially hard to look at the later pictures in a different light from the groups before. As the annotations increased, we were able to fill in questions asked by other group members and develop their ideas. This task allowed me to witness the expansion of ideas that can come from collective collaboration. After the annotation task, each group wa...
Read more

Week 10

 Week 10: Our most important starting objective was to demonstrate the impact War has on individuals,  express the repercussions of war and to exhibit its repetitive nature. These have  strongly directed our group throughout the creating of our piece.  We wanted to create something emotionally driven, using movements with clear purpose to enhance our stimulus and messages. We wanted to leave viewers feeling emotionally warn out, aiming for them to strongly question: why haven't we learnt from our mistakes? Should we be using real lives like playing cards to solve problems? At times we drifted away from our key objectives, occasionally simply filling the music for convenience. However we always bought ourselves back to our motives by taking the time to review, reflect and question our work. This did result in changes to our original structure, for example conjoining Fear and Chaos with the War section, as we developed ideas that would support our object...
Read more

Choreographic Influencers:

Throughout the weeks, we have looked at different artist, performances and chorographers as a platform to inspire us and help the flow of our creativity. Two groups that particularly aided our vision was the Shaolin Monks that perform in Sutra and the group Ballet Boys in their Basic Training video clip.   When considering the choreographic process  Iván Pérez,   used to create "Basic Training" in Young Men, I couldn't help notice how the scene was so genuine, so real... suggesting to me that perhaps he simply allowed the character's emotions and reactions to dictate the  coming movements and steps. The impact is massive, placed exactly as they intended me to be, the overwhelming feeling of concern and pity consumes me as a viewer. This is the phycological control we aim to have with our audience. Great emphasise is placed on showing facial expressions, despite these pauses the piece is incredibly engaging as the contrast of stillness helps increase th...
Read more