Continuation of choreography

The most recent section that I have been developing is the last section of the piece. Throughout the majority of the piece, we created each section of choreography collaboratively rather than spending time individually creating a sequence and then teaching it to the group. As mentioned previously the theme for the last section should have a nostalgic sense to complement the music. Keesha, Anita, and I have been inputting ideas for this section, We all agreed on the theme of this section.

I spoke with the group for this section and mentioned how I was struggling to come up with movements that correlated with the music and we discussed how I should concentrate on watching the sequence to see if the movements were in the style of the music. In general, I would say that we don't have specific roles within the group as we maintained a collaborative contribution. 

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As a group, our main task was to create choreography without backtracking and discarding the content because it wasn't perfect or because it didn't relate to the stimulus straight away. I would say that our group was very conscious of our stimulus and didn't want to create a phrase without it having meaning to the stimulus immanently. I think our movements within the piece have a clear understanding of the stimulus and portray our narrative of COVID-19 and the different perspectives of the virus throughout. As talked about before our motifs help reinterpret the narrative by having a clear visual understanding of what we are trying to convey. 


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