Niamh Horn - First Year Choreography

Now that my choreography is complete, I reviewed the original learning outcomes. One of these was to demonstrate the application of theories, processes, devices and technical dance skills to choreograph, create  and design original dance to pre-selected stimuli. I believe I have, to the best of my ability, incorporated Wayne McGregor's creative process whilst choreographing. There are many moments within the dance where I spell out a word using my body, these include the words fish and also pressure. I also viewed the letters of the these words as 3D objects that I had to try and move around.  In addition to this, I have included variety of choreographic devices within my piece. These include, augmentation, repetition, embellishment and retrograde. Each of these devices have been chosen as they all link to my stimuli - climate change and pollution. Augmentation is used towards the end of my choreography. I chose to incorporate this device within this specific stage of the pie...

The choreography that I will be critiquing is McGregor's Woolf Works. This piece is bases on Virginia Woolf who defied the false order of narrative conventions to depict a heightened, startling and poignant reality. re-creates the synesthetic collision of form and substance in her writings. (Studio Wayne McGregor, n.d.) Originally performed by the Royal Ballet company, the piece aims to represent  Woolf's world of 'granite and rainbow' where human beings are at once both physical body and uncontained essence. (Studio Wayne McGregor, n.d.).  Firstly, whilst watching the piece I was drawn to the costuming and staging. The costumes in which the dancers are wearing are very bare showing every part of the human body, which links back to McGregor's other piece infra where again they were wearing revealing costumes. By showing every part of the body it makes you realise how everything in the body has a purpose and that it's all very mechanical, this can also be ...

I have now completed my choreography, I have faced a few challenges whilst creating my piece such as finding it difficult to get inspired and create movements. During the first creative session I found it difficult to use movements that mirror the fluidity of marine organisms, however after reflecting on my creative process I realised that I needed to write ideas down and view videos of marine life online, and use their actions as literal parts of my piece. Due to the fact that the beginning of my piece is linked to marine life I researched the activity of deep sea organisms by watching documentaries  (Earth, 2018) and trying emulate that in my movements. I also was inspired by my practitioners creative process as I used the word "fish" to create a motif. Wayne McGregor uses the letters of words to inspire him, for example the letter F could be 3D in front of him and he has to get around it or he spells it put literally with his body. I used this same technique as a means o...

  Fossil fuels  are hydrocarbons, primarily coal,  fuel  oil or natural gas, formed from the remains of dead plants and animals. (ScienceDaily, n.d.) The animals that form the hydrocarbons are mainly marine organisms and so at the beginning of my piece my  movement will be based off the fluidity of marine organisms.  Although all of the produced materials begin as organic material and are transformed over a large time span due to burial by sediment , pressure , and temperature , different conditions result in the formation of different types of fossil fuels. (Afework et al., 2018) During my choreography I hope to represent the pressure by having a sequence of  movements slowly getting lower to the floor, however I'll be showing resistance at the same time.    The new stage in my choreography will be the heating of the fossil fuels.  All objects contain internal energy. Some of this is due to the moveme...