Niamh Horn - First Year Choreography

At the beginning of the term, I set my self some objectives that I wanted to have accomplished by the end of the task. My first objective was to find a creative process that I could work with in order to the choreograph my piece. I found that I was able to find one to choreograph but at the beginning I did struggle to settle into this process, to overcome this I tried to experiment with different ways of choreographing such as improvisation and also through words. However, I found all of these quite difficult, so in the end I wrote movements down and then performed them an I found this a lot more natural to create movement. This process was me listening to the music and then writing down the movements that I pictured in my head rather than dancing them straight away. After this I really tried to set the timing and then danced it afterwards.  Another objective was to be able to research my stimulus enough so that I could develop movements that I felt were reflective of my narrativ...

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The piece which I will be critiquing today is Wayne McGreogor's Genus. This was first perfromed in 2007 be the Paris Opera Ballet and has a duration of 45 minutes.  (Studio Wayne McGregor, n.d.) This piece is based on Charles Darwin's On the origin Of  Species. I t’s the magisterial tome whose 1859 publication blew apart prevailing theories about the divine advent of humankind and emitted shock waves that penetrated almost every corner of intellectual inquiry. (Crabb, 2017)  When the company first danced a McGregor piece in November 2010 audiences responded with deafening approval. It created a buzz that sounded far beyond the regular ballet crowd and lured a notably younger audience into that sanctuary of mostly high art, the Four Seasons Centre. (Crabb, 2017) Firstly the costuming and staging is very fitting for the narrative of the piece. The costume is a unitard which is black with grey in the centre. This is very similar to a gorilla's appearance,...