Personal Development Reflection (8)

 We have nearly finished our choreographic process and are now putting the finishing touches onto our piece. We have pieced together our sections and are now blending them all together to fit as one piece. I would like to mesh the different portions and messages together to create a more seamless looking piece that flows well. We agreed that if there was some steps of the piece we didn't gel with we would rework it to fit how we wanted to depict it to give a more authentic feel. While researching Christopher Bruce the dancers seemed to be all in with their movement, it was like they believed they were in the message of the piece and I wanted to emulate that.

Our research has evolved during our choreographic process. We began by simply picking a choreographer we hadn't quite heard of and now I feel I could talk in length about Christopher Bruce and his pieces. We began to start thinking while creating, asking questions like 'how is this telling the story of our piece?' and thus producing a more message driven project. 

We have faced a few challenges along the way, it is always tough to try create as a group. Many people have different interpretations of movement and how it's portrayed, and we didn't want to diminish that so we settled on being able to interpret the intention of the piece while still remaining working together. This gave all of us an individual personal outlook on our piece. 

When we looked at Christopher Bruce's pieces 'Rooster' and 'Ghost Dances' we took inspiration from the contrast of them. When watching Rooster it was very upbeat and light whereas Ghost Dances was very solemn in it's message. This really helped us with the contrast of our piece and how to show it with different types and textures of movement. This has really helped us create a coherent narrative piece. 





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