Choreography

In Today's session we were introduced to several different ways of choreographing. I will be writing about 3 ways in which you can start to build up movement sequences and motifs. 

Painting the room - This task involved us (theoretically of course) dipping a body part in paint of a particular colour which affects the way in which we move. We then had to move around the space filling it with the paint; the floor, the ceiling, the walls. This made us use levels thus making our movements more interesting. We are so played around with dynamics and pace due to the implementation of colour. If we were painting with a blue hand (down to interpretation) we would paint with soft tonnes and maybe wavy motions whereas if we were painting with a red foot we might use sharp kicks and strong leg extensions. This exercise helped us to create strings of movements uninhibited by structure or the need to look a certain way. In my opinion this is a good way to get the imagination flowing and to perhaps create basic movements that can be later on developed. I however wouldn't solely use this method to choreograph an entire piece, 

Circle collaboration - This activity used spontaneous action and class participation to create a sequence of movements. Standing in a circle the first person would start a movement and then the next person would create the move after. We went round until everyone had provided a movement and we had a motif! From there we had a basic routine that everyone knew. To develop this further we were instructed to play around with this motif through :- Fragmentation, Instrumentation and Level Changes (see choreographic devices sheet). This was a good way to create dance material using multiple people as it utilizes many imaginative viewpoints. Although I found it slightly restrictive because you had to think on the spot and it depends heavily on what the person before you has produced.  

Stimulus - We were given a Mary Berry recipe as our  base. At first I was really confused but then after we finished our work I was really impressed with how well this method worked. We went through and underlined all the words we thought could relate to movements for instance; crack, melted, whip, fan freeze etc. From there we made a list of ten words we thought we could use and listed them. For each word we created a movement then linked them all together. This gave us quite a lot of artistic freedom but gave us enough guidelines to aid us in motif creation. From there we were given a sheet full of choreographic devices in order to advance our motifs. I chose to use; Additive, Size and Staging to enhance my piece. I believe that this was the most effective way to choreograph because it produced really strong work full of emotional interpretation and creative use of many performance mediums.