Week 9 – Critical Review of Dance Piece #2
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 really liked how you recreated the movement of marine organisms by watching a video, as this shows both your inspiration from your chosen choreographer and also the task we did in week four of the course. How are you going to incorporate more shapes in your choreography?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Daisy, looking at my stimulus picture there are many different geographical shapes which contrast to my more spherical shapes. Therefore I will try and imitate the chimneys and geometric shapes that I see in the this picture and incorporate these into my dance.
DeleteI think it's a good idea how you explored different ways of creating, why do you feel you find it more challenging to build movement from improvisation?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Ella, I find that when I started with improvisation I could not remember what I had just done. In addition to this I found it difficult to improvise when I had a vision in my head but then when I danced it didn't replicate this vision, subsequently I wrote down the movements I wanted to perform were and then went from there.
DeleteYou have very clearly shown how your chosen practitioner has influenced your own creative process. You mentioned how you initially found it challenging to choreograph as your creative process wasn't fully developed, how would you say it has evolved to the stage that it is at now?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Caitlyn, I would say that my creative process has evolved a lot since the first creative session. Since then I have tried to incorporate McGreogor's process of collaboration whilst creating my piece, I have emulated this by watching videos of interviews and also documentaries. More recently, my creative process had changed even more so by recording myself and then watching it back. This allowed me to see how the audience sees my piece and whether my narrative was coming across clearly.
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