Problems and Solutions Within the Choreographic Process.
Near the beginning of the piece in the second section, everyone moves around in their own pathways, and we all gravitated too far to the right, the consequence of this was no one was on the left hand side of the stage and it looked bare, so from an audience perspective it would have looked chaotic and unpleasant, it also made the space for us as dancers to move in, smaller and more compact meaning we had less space to move and more chance of collisions. To solve this, I changed my pathway from going straight to the right side to weaving back round and staying mostly towards the left. Jess also decided to stay on the left side for longer so that we have more space to move around.
In the 3rd section, nostalgic memory, there was a split focus on the stage that included everyone, there is a small group on 4 in the middle and then 6 of us dancing around them in the semicircle, however in this section there was too much going on and it made the movement look too busy and messy. So to combat this we got people to watch the piece individually and give feedback, so we decided that the dancers around the middle, so those in the semicircle, would dance on the floor at a lower level to show the distinct difference between the focal points at the time.
In the 4th section, bad memory, there is a transition from a diagonal straight line to a 3, 4, 2 line formation, and when we were running to our spaces pathways crossed and caused collisions especially with Live and Taylor. So, to solve this we swapped Taylor and Liv's positions around in the formation, this then meant they could get there quickly and more efficiently.
After we had changed these things in the piece it became a lot cleaner and also the message that was trying to be shown to the audience was a lot clearer as it made the transitions of the stages of this person life a lot easier to understand.
Hi Portia, great blog post. Maybe think about what you could do at home before bringing the choreography to class to teach that would resolve problem, thus saving teaching time in class
ReplyDeleteHi Portia, amazing post! Maybe think about how going into the future with choreography, how could yourself and others combat these issues that have occurred before entering the studio, what could people think about whilst choreographing for a group piece? Hope this has helped!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog you really talked about how you resolved all the problems, I think to improve it would be great if you talked about time management, how we could manage our teaching time etc. But I loved how you talked so detailed about the spacing problems as it is a very important factor with in the piece
ReplyDeleteHi Portia, great blog post. To save time teaching the choreography in class is there anything that you could do outside of the studio.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to read how you have overcome the problems you encountered once the choreography was being danced by the whole group. I'd like you to include a little bit about what the impact was once it had been changed and if the overall look of the piece still produced the intention that could be coveyed to the audience. How could you avoid this in future what might you need to think about or do when choreographing for a group. If you could also include some videos images or drawings that can help the reader actually see the points you have rasied in the blog post.
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