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 objectives to the fullest. 

I feel we have displayed great teamwork this term. Although facing challenges, like moving and creating steps with the sticks did prove to be quite difficult, we managed to over come the hurdles efficiently together. 


The lesson involved applying the final changes to our choreography. 

We are to make something more of the moment before going into War. Contrasting character traits are needed to get a real sense of the adrenaline filled atmosphere: some panicked and hesitant, others switching to survival mode- ready to pounce. We looked at pictures that represented these qualities and  took inspiration from Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk.


Russian Soldiers Picture

An effective way we enhanced the excitement in the Coming Together section was to use the choreographic process, Chance Method. The three words of influence were: triumph, fun and comradery. As well as this, we replaced another small part in this section where previously the movements had little purpose. We considered our overall message at this point in the dance- training together. We therefore included strength training movements like planks and forward rolls to make this idea more obvious.  

Referencing:

Russian Soldiers Preparing for the Battle of Kursk. (Image by: Shirak Karapetyan Milshtein). JesseClark152. (2014)  Available at:https://www.deviantart.com/jesseclark152/art/Russian-Soldiers-Preparing-for-the-Battle-of-Kursk-455447571 [Online] (accessed 28 November)





Comments

  1. rosabella murphy4 December 2020 at 08:56

    This is an excellent blog and I liked reading about how you have found this process of creating your choreography and the different challenges you have faced as a group. I feel when watching your piece as an audience member I really feel connected to your story and feel emotional as we remember those who lost their lives for us. Are you happy with how your final work has turned out and do you feel you have achieved your goals ?

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    1. LouisaBratby4 December 2020 at 09:17

      Overall I am very pleased with our final choreography material. As a team, I feel we managed to successfully achieve all that we had wanted. We always strove to find ways to improve our work and productively apply our feedback and corrections.

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  2. Lucy Imamzade4 December 2020 at 09:04

    I really enjoyed reading this blog Louisa. How do you think we overcome the challenge of choreographing with the sticks?

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    1. LouisaBratby4 December 2020 at 09:11

      It was through constant review and refection that prompted us to continue developing the stick choreography. We ended up making several changes throughout the weeks as we steadily acknowledged and identified the movements that prevented the flow of choreography. The monks in Sutra was also a great help to us as we carefully examined how they moved with their sticks.

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