Choreography for Solo Performance (MU40370O)

Reflecting on my own creative process over the last few weeks of creating the solo, I am able to draw connections and find the similarities and differences between my own journey , and the journey of practitioners such as Wayne McGregor and Crystal Pite. When choosing my stimulus and deciding on the overall idea for the piece I feel as though it focuses on things which are relevant in as a ‘bigger picture’ and can apply to anyone making it inclusi ve. This is similar to the way Crystal Pite is known for creating work: addressing problems relevant in today’s society . (Company – Kidd Pivot, 2022)   When it came to creating choreography, I feel like I went down a similar route to Crystal Pite in that I already had an idea of what kind of movements I wanted to include. This is different in co ntrast to Wayne McGregor, who uses his dancers as inspiration for his choreography, by choosing pieces from their improvisation . I feel like many of McGregor’s works are more abstract and la...

My stimulus for my solo has remained the same throughout the creative process; a piece of artwork called ‘Metropolis’ , exploring how we are ‘’dwarfed in today’s society and lost in it’’ . (Schaller, 2019). From this piece of artwork, my focus point of the shadows remained the same and I continued my research based on psychology and how we all have elements of our personality we don’t like and choose to repress into our unconsciousness. (Carl Jung and the Shadow: The Ultimate Guide to the Human Dark Side, 2022) However, from this I found it hard to show this in my choreography besides the use of floorwork , as I feel like showing the two different ‘personalities’ is quite challenging ; therefore, I feel as though my message isn’t all that clear.   The use of floorwork could show the difference between the two b eings: the conscious becoming the unconscious . I feel like I mana ged to capture the image of shadows in my piece well as a lot of movements in my section are slow a...

  Atomos’ is an abstract piece of work created by Wayne McGregor alongside a fashion organisation; Studio XO , focusing on the idea of an atom being ind i v i s i b l e a n d u n c u t t a b l e . In this piece, McGregor explores creating movement using technology which collects data in the form of a physiological reading of the dancers’ bodies; for example, listening to the rhythm of the heart and how it reacts to the music. From this, he begins the creative process to building the piece using ‘random’ and inspiration from science .   The dancers are an important part in this process, as they are required to use their improvisation skills to come up with phrases of movement . F rom this, McGregor would pick out the parts he likes this most and would create phrases of choreography . T h e r e i s a s t r o n g u s e o f visualisation in which, the dancers are required to be very open minded a n d a p p roach the project with a creative mindset , to be able to ta...