Choreography for Group Performance (MU503740)

When creating choreography, it can be helpful to draw inspiration from the work of other practitioners. Often choreographers who have been in the industry have years worth of knowledge and experience behind their creative process, so I find watching interviews to be a valuable tool in learning different devices as well as how they choose to convey their stimuli in the movement. I also enjoy seeing different industry trends and what makes them so popular with the public. It can also be interesting to observe aspects that are similar to my own group's work and how the differences between them affect the impact of the piece.  After watching excerpts from several artists, I found Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite's work to be most useful when comparing and inspiring our own practice. I admired how Pite  clearly and respectfully conveys modern-day issues through her choreography.   In particular, her 2009 work  'Emergence.'   When Pite first created th...

Composition is the act of creating a work; the structure is how you give pattern and organisation to a piece. The structure of the piece is designed to show how an individual like Charnly's symptoms can worsen over time and to establish a descent into becoming increasingly paranoid and disconnected from their 'self' due to these delusions and how isolating this experience can be. When composing a structure for our group piece, we first went through our chosen track music, found distinct musical composition changes, and marked off the timestamps for those transitions. We then brainstormed words and concepts associated with these musical phrases; For Example, during the 'Visions of Gideon' section, we associated the words paranoia, overwhelmed, and anxiety. Progres sing from this, we created links between these word maps and our stimulus to create movement. This process ensured we constantly linked our movement to our stimuli by providing quick buzzwords to refer bac...

A motif refers to a small choreographic unit, such as a gesture, movement or phrase that links strongly to the stimuli. Variations of the motif can be repeated throughout the piece through choreographic devices such as inversion, rhythmical modifications, amplification, minimization, ornamentation, and deconstruction. Repeating variations of a motif in this way can be used to show progression or change either in character or in the world of the piece.   (Preston-Dunlop, 2014) Detachment motif: This motif stems from a duet created for the '2:09' section by Eabha and Olivia. The original solo was created to show separation and power struggle, with each dancer representing either the disordered mind or Charnley's own self. This structure allows the audience to see the disorder take hold effect and manipulate the rational mind. When developing this further, we plan to have short phrases of this duet repeated later in the piece to show the progression of the illness taking ...