Choreography for Group Performance (MU50374O)

This week's focus was inspired by Kate Flatt and her idea of lost in translation due to different stage directions- this was then incorporated into our lesson in the studio. In our group we stood in a vertical line, four of us faced the back and the person at the front would face forward, with space between us to dance. The person at the front had to create 8 counts of movement which they would then show to the person behind them whilst having their back to them. Only one person at a time would turn around to face the person in front of them, we could only see the choreography once. Some examples of how the task went are shown below Lost in translation- Video 1 https://youtu.be/aSKa--hdZbk Lost in translation- Video 2 https://youtu.be/3Frh11YEMiY From watching the videos it is clear that with a different angle comes a different interpretation. Our group discussed how when you have your body alignment to the front it can hide a person's subtle arm gestures which then makes a mov...

Starting the level 5 choreography process has been different yet similar to the previous level 4 choreography process. This year, the stimuli concentrated on art as a political statement- In previous years the stimuli haven't been focused on political subjects. At the start of the lesson, we were put into five groups of three, each group had to annotate all five stimuli. We were asked to think about what each image represented. Highlighted in blue are the ideas that I had for each stimulus which were developed from my thought process or what other students had previously written. Stimulus 1- 'Stolen' - Portrait of Breonna Taylor who was unjustly shot by the police at the age of 26. The artist: Adrian Brandon painted this portrait of Taylor for 26 minutes to portray each year that she had lived. You can see that I had discussed that this woman is trying to hide who she is due to all the racism and cruelty to black people. After hearing the true meaning of this painting and i...