Choreography For Group Performance (MU50374O)

As a whole, I felt our choreography piece really came together and went very well in our final assessment. Naturally, there were small mistakes in the steps or with the timing but mutually we felt it was the best we had ever done it. After watching the video back even the moments we thought hadn't gone too well looked effective and a lot of the piece did appear how we had envisioned. A section that stood out to me was the duet between me and ben  as it was the cleanest and most fine-tuned, we worked very well together and ben's choreography really emphasised the way we can compliment each other's movements. Video link -  Duet Clip I also allowed this to inspire my movement and choreographic ideas as it was very interesting to see how someone else created movement. I know in the future I would like to take in more outside inspiration as you shouldn't have anything blocking your creative imagination; being open-minded is so important as it can allow you to come up with th...

From the very beginning we mutually agreed we didn't want to make a heart-rending, heavy 10-minute dance about sexual abuse and all of its negative effects, we very much wanted to highlight the positive parts of the healing process, whilst still being realistic and truthfully conveying the struggles someone may face with shame and vulnerability and regaining trust in themselves and others. We wanted a message to be sent that could perhaps show any victims of sexual assault that there is hope and that you can find yourself again even when it feels truly impossible. We also wanted to portray a small element, metaphorically of what the intimidation is like when someone has been sexually assaulted, and so particularly in the beginning section, we were very certain of the fact we wanted the audience to feel the intimidation and tension too so that they could then almost feel the pain and growth with us afterwards. One of the main self-help tips that are recommended for those strugglin...

  One section we have worked on in-depth recently is the section after Emma's solo, so Emma choreographed a lot of this section however when we put the movements to music we had a small section left to choreograph, so we discussed some ideas and realised there were some significant movements that we could relate back to from the opening section. There is a movement that we do in an accumulative Canon in the first section that we wanted to almost represent a "bull charging" except we are the ones getting ready to charge at Emma in the bottom corner, the video of this is linked in my previous blog. So in this phrase, we have been working on, we reprise that movement in the same corner. However, we look back to the corner in which Emma was "trapped in" and then face away and repeat the movement in a much softer, and hunched-over position slowly lowering to the floor, trying to "hide away" from the trauma of that right corner. The song used for this whole ...