Blog Eight – Final Evaluation of Assessment Piece

 

Has the stimulus and message come across successfully in the piece?

Personally, I do feel we have achieved our stimulus message really well, and from an audience interpretation I think we have created vivid imagery throughout the piece and specific movements that would suggest our stimulus and the message we are trying to convey. For example, we directly re created the visual of a brain that was taken straight from our stimulus image by creating a formation that moved and breathed as one as we performed small movements in unison as one close unit. This image was reimplemented again later on as we again created a close group formation before taking  two breaths at the same time stepping out creating a visual of one whole moving breath, which I think would have been a really clear image for the audience to show this piece was about something that happens inside the brain. We also incorporated movements such as the hand crawling up the side of the body suggesting the negative thoughts taking over this motif was developed and resonated throughout the piece as we then repeated the movement but this time with both hands crawling up the body suggesting the increase of emotions spiralling out of control.

Do you think you are developing your own choreographic style?

Yes, over this choreographic process I feel I have become more able to take different techniques inspired by various practitioners and activities partaken in class to create and begin choreographing more efficiently. Where as before I may have just improvised until I created something I liked, I now know more effectual techniques that can help me begin creating my own choreography. For example the Merce Cunningham 'chance technique', Wayne McGregor’s word technique in which he creates shapes and movements by thinking about particular words, or even thinking of the five senses and imagining different scenarios are great ways for me to start thinking about choreographing.   

What would you say has been your strengths and weaknesses?

Throughout the choreographic process I feel my strengths have been; being able to listen to others ideas and contribute my own effectively and clearly. I also feel I have been able to visualise other peoples ideas well and pick up their choreography quickly. On the other hand in terms of weaknesses I think one big thing would be learning the counts of the music for the pieces I am teaching as this would be more effective for when we came to cleaning and refining the piece and would be more time efficient.