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 ...
Well done Niamh, I like that you have talked about the challenges that you have faced during your process and how you have managed to overcome them. In what way will you refine your performance to help to convey the sense of panic that you talked about? You speak very clearly in this blog and are engaged with the camera throughout which ensures that your ideas come across to the listener.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Daisy, to answer your question I will use emotions in my performance to help create a sense of panic. In addition to my performance, I will also use many large movements in a short amount of time to resemble the feeling of being overwhelmed.
ReplyDeleteWell done Niamh, this is a very clear vlog discussing your choreographic processes, including challenges you have faced and how you have overcome them. You mentioned how your movement has been inspired by your stimulus and McGregors work. How has the journey of fossil fuels impacted your movement vocabulary? Is there any movement that particularly highlights this?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Storm, the fossil fuel narrative has definitely had an impact on my movement vocabulary. This is particularly apparent in the beginning section of my piece, after my research I discovered that fossil fuels were originally marine organisms that over time were formed into fossils due to the pressure and temperature conditions they were under. Therefore, the beginning section of my piece represents the movement of these organisms, this is also repeated throughout my piece to remind the audience where the beginning of the fossil fuel's journey began. One specific movement is a ripple through my body whilst my arms circle round in front of my body, this is a movement that I created whilst watching a documentary on deep sea organisms.
DeleteWell done Niamh, you have really gone into depth with your explanations throughout your vlog, however you mentioned you want to refine your performance, can you give a further explanation in how you're going to achieve this?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Lucy, to refine my performance I feel that I really need to think about what emotions I want to portray to my audience in each section, whereas at this moment in time I only know that I want to portray panic in my final section. In addition to this, I feel as if I still need to clean my movements so that the narrative of my piece is clear for the audience.
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