Choreography 2nd Year: Hannah Tinsley-Hope

 In this weeks lesson we were given a task where we had to start standing in a line. The first person in the line was given an adjective such as 'heavy' or 'gentle' and from that word they had to create a motif. From then, the second person in line could watch the movement twice and try and remember it for the third person in the line. We did this activity 4 times creating 4 motifs. Due to the short amount of time we had to watch and remember each motif, once it got to the last person performing what they tried to remember, it always seemed slightly different to the original motif whether it was missing a movement entirely or just using the wrong arm. From this we ended up having the original and the slightly changed version which gave us 8 movements created altogether. Once we put all of the movements together giving us a bigger phrase we were told to focus on the formations and choreographic devices we can add into our phrase. For the first original motif we decided t...

 In the second week, myself and my group came together to decide on our own stimulis to bring into the choreography lesson. We chose a picture of a hand which consisted of lots of linear lines and patterns. In our groups, we went around the room and observed and analysed the other groups stimulis and ideas and commented a word or two that we thought as a group represented the picture clearly. The words and ideas that were written about our stimulis was the following: * shapes *different pathways *linear and curved lines *black and white *intertwined *represents DNA and information *the idea of leaving DNA behind *hand - the idea of contact *transfer of DNA *contrast From the selection of words we were given, we chose 3 that stood out for us and created 4 movements/motifs for each word. Each movement had to be 8 counts and altogether should create 12 movements. The first word we chose was 'contrast': 1st movement - arm swipes head, grab arm up then down. 2nd movement - soft swir...

In our first choreography lesson, we got seperated in our household groups which is a group of 3 in my case. Each group was given a picture based on the arts as a political statement and as a group we had to write down our thoughts and feelings that came to mind while looking at each picture. The first picture me and my group analysed was of the navity being somewhat protected and shielded by a wall. This wall was covered in graffiti with words such as 'love' with a peace symbol as the o and a skull which could perhaps represent death. However, central of the wall seems to be a bullet hole but as we discussed further with this, because this hole is above the nativity, we thought it could represent the north star. After discovering that this artwork was created by the artist 'Banksy', we linked it back to the subject of the lesson which was arts as a political statement so we associated it with perhaps religious hate crime. The second picture is taken in an art gallery w...