Lesson 8 choreography

In todays lesson we continued on with our group choreography creating more material, focusing on music and discussing the sections within our dance. We have now edited all of our music together using 4 different pieces, The first being “The Chase” from the Stonehearst Asylum soundtrack. And in this lesson we focused deply on this section, which we have now added to the very beginning of our piece. This music is very dramatic and powerful, consisting of a strong repetitive melody with heavy and loud beats. I personally feel this music creates quite a frantic and scary feel. Within this section we used the chance method, here we all thought of a word in which we thought represented our image and created 2 movements based around it. We labelled each action from 1-6, and then rolled a dice which generated a new sequence of order that the actions would be performed in. Within this section we perform repetaive actions in a straight line travelling downstage. These moements are intense and powerful and the use of repetition portrays the idea of how we are not in control of ourselves and its almost as I we are stuck in a trance. This whole section also links to the picture we found at the beginning of this process of the dark corridor in which we used as a starting point:

We thought this section could show us walking down the corridor making our way into the mental asylum where we become trapped and stuck inside our minds. Every now and then there is a slow part within in the music where we perform calm actions leaing apart from one another which then leads as to sharply snap back into our straight line to again perform the repeated actions in unison, this demonstrates the idea that we are all stuck in this trance together. Towards the end of this section the music slowly fades out quietly into our next piece “Prodigy” by Nathan Lanier. Below is the movement we created for the beginning of our dance: Next we moved on to creating material towards the end of our dance. Here me, Sadie and Hannah worked on our trio. The music for our trio is “Primavera” by Ludovico Einaudi. This piece is a big contrast to the rest of our dance as it is of a slow tempo played in a minor key. We decided to base our trio off the idea of supporting one another, here we realise that we must come together in order to get better. I feel this section shows that we are real human beings and that we are not always out of control due to our mental state. Here we perform gentle and soft movements using moments of contact to show the idea of supporting one another. here is the movement we created for a trio https://youtu.be/OzPvZmM2P5k