Dance: Choreography Workshop

Rachel Palmer started off our dance class with a few videos, so we could better understand dance, music and film videos.

These were the videos we were shown:


"Dance Serpentine" by lumiere brothers 

 "Pas De deux" 1902 

"The magic lantern" by George melies 1903

"Alice in wonderland" 1903

having looked at these videos the older dance videos had alot of stage feel to them, most of the videos being filmed like they are on stage.

A lot of the new dance videos/ films it is all about camera movements and how they follow the dance.

We had discussed the entertainment and conceptual sides of dance having looked at the following videos:

Busby Berkeley 1930Aesthetically pleasing patterns with a big number of dancersFocused on entertainment

Mary wigman 1929 Conceptual, self indulgent.

We then watchhed more videos, a variety of music videos and dance videos and had to write notes, on the aspects we liked about each videos.


"Mached" by lxd I like the fact that they are using objects Emotions

"1234" by Feist Looks cool, reminds me of Berkeley, dance feels a bit out of place though

"Sunrise" by Yeasayer Good use of camera movements, has a nice concept Cuts follow the dance

"Choreography Reel" by Tamara Levinson Quite bold movements, visually interesting Black BG doesn't distract from the dance

"Rosas danst rosas"  by rosas
 Very precise Movements

"Ghostcatching" by Bill T Jones, Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar Visually very stunning Good idea to visually race the movement Cutting edge technology for the time

"Guns and horses" by Ellie Golding Too many separate things merged together superficially Dancers and singer a bit out of place


After that we jumped in to some basic movement workshops ourselves, in groups, to better understand how dance may be manifested. We were assigned in rough groups, however myself, Lucy, Joel and Tom combined and formed an idea that we are thinking of using for our final piece.

Our idea we came up with is about a person who is living a mundane life, and is in a room or an office, moving in a repetitive and boring fashion. Suddenly his reflection in the mirror tries to disrupt this repetitive pattern and convince the real person to "live life" and break free from this repetitive

movement.

We then filmed professional dancer's trying out our idea which Tom and Lucy have filmed. Trying out our idea with the professional dancers was extremely useful, and may even be a

starting point for our final piece.

 

Maps & Journey

Gallery -TORSO Installation.

Preparing for the gallery installation putting the final images the into a loop, and having a long helpful tutorial with Kathleen Rodgers writing up strong conceptual meaning for the TORSO piece.

Having documented this process over a span of a few weeks, the hardest part was writing the meaning. Making the meaning powerful yet personal to attract viewer's towards my work easier.

The conceptual meaning behind TORSO, using Avid to put it together.

Doing this installation has been a an experience I won't forget, this being my first exhibition. This has given me insight into what to expect for third year.

Extremely happy with the final outcome and how it looks in the actual gallery.

Maps & Journeys

Gallery- Prep

Layout

This layout has changed, as Ricahard wanted the layout changed to both the images and the text being projected instead o having the text in viynal. With the projectors displayed on top of two seperate plinths as this layout would be best for my design, having the images and text projected in the corner of the wall opposite each other replicating a book design.