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choreography module: eighth week

Unfortunately, during this week in ballet class, I tripped and twisted my ankle quiet severly and as a result, I was unable to dance this week. However, my group and I created and added more material for the opening section focusing on entering and arriving into the asylum. We decided to look back on our previous choreography lessons where we learnt all the techniques to formulate movements and by this, we chose the chance method, where as mentioned in earlier blogs, is where you number all the movements and roll a dice which determines what sequence the movements will fall into. 

We made sure that we kept referring back to our stimulus and we actually thought that the opening of the choreography should actually be based in this corridor. From this, we chose to start this section standing in a straight vertical line portraying the idea of being in the hallway. They perform a series of strong and powerful sways and walks forward to also show this idea. They also perform the movement that we created by the chance method in this section which involve lots of different hand gestures that are performed in unison to convey the sense of being controlled as soon as we are entering the asylum.

As a reference, we looked into Kate Flatt's book which encouraged us as a group consider on what atmosphere we want to give off to the audience once we perform it, especially with the opening and the ending of the choreography.


https://youtu.be/Gz3qB6xOaGg 

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  1. Daisy StonierNovember 26, 2020 at 11:41 AM

    I think that your idea for the entrance is really effective and will be a powerful and engaging start for the audience. You mentioned that you used the chance method to develop this phrase, what inspired the movements that you created and how did you come up with them? Did you have certain words in mind as inspiration?

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    1. Hannah Tinsley-HopeDecember 3, 2020 at 3:04 PM

      For the beginning section, with using the chance method, we felt like including gesture like movement in the opening whilst walking forward. As we wanted the main focus to be on us "walking into the hospital", we thought it would be best to have smaller movements so the attention wasn't lost on us.

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  2. sadie medcalfNovember 27, 2020 at 2:17 AM

    I enjoyed reading this blog as it was very detailed and i could follow every step you and your group took in the lesson. Did you add any choreographic devices into this section. How do these link to your stimulus?

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    1. Hannah Tinsley-HopeDecember 3, 2020 at 3:07 PM

      We kept this opening section mainly using the choreographic device, unison. Our group decided to do this to keep the audience captivated and feel the sense of us being controlled and perform robotic movements as soon as the choreography starts. This links clearly with our stimulus due to us being "controlled" by the hospital.

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  3. Abigail DowseNovember 27, 2020 at 2:38 AM

    This blog was really detailed, well done. How did you find creating and developing choreography while not being able to dance, was this challenging?
    I really like your reference to Kate Flatt's book and how you used this to inspire your group work.

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    1. Hannah Tinsley-HopeDecember 3, 2020 at 3:09 PM

      I definetly found it hard being in the role of actually choreographing so I ended up taking the role of sitting out and having the audience perspective which ended out to be quiet beneficial as I could spot if someone was doing something out of line or a different movement which no one could see before as we were all dancing and we would only know these issues when we perform to our class.

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