Week 1
During our first choreography lesson, we looked at how art can be a political tool to create movement/phrases for the development our final group piece.
We did this by looking carefully at 6 different photos in which were given to us by our teacher. From here we were separated into 6 different groups and had 3 minutes to analyse each picture. Me and my group found the last couple photos harder to annotate due to other groups writing their ideas before us, however it allowed us to think outside the box and further our imagination to spark new ideas. We also found that talking together about each topic allowed us to bounce off each others ideas, creating new and further developed annotations.
Once we had finished looking and annotating each photo, we then dedicated our focus onto one photo. Me and my group decided to focus on the photo of the unfinished drawing. We chose this photo as it was the one we were all most interested in. After doing some extra research we found out that the photo was based on a lady who got her life taken away from her at the age of 22, so the artist in correlation, drew a portrait of her in a time set of 22 minutes, however this never allowed him to finish his art piece. This further demonstrates how much of her life she never got to experience due to it being taken away from her. From this background knowledge, we created a small phrase - 4 counts of 8- to show this idea of life being taken away.
We demonstrated this idea by interrupting each others phrases to exaggerate the idea of taking over. For example before Louisa could finish her last movement Ella had already started her phrase causing Louisa to finish and pause. This then repeated between myself and Ella.
Overall, looking back at our first lesson, using art as a way to create movement was very helpful as it allowed us to create a narrative/idea behind our developed phrase, therefore I will definitely consider using this technique when developing my final group dance piece.
References:
1. Artist: Adrian Brandon Title: Stolen - Portrait of Breonna Taylor 26 years old = 26 minutes of colour
https://www.adrianbrandon.com/stolen
2. Artist: Banksy Title: Scar of Bethlehem – Depicting a wall that represents that of the one between Israel and Palestine with a bullet hole as the star of Bethlehem due to the ongoing conflict between the two countries.
3. Artists: Rael San Fratello Architects Title: See Saws - See Saws put up along the US and Mexican border wall so that people on either side can interact and play together
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/07/30/rael-san-fratello-us-mexico-border-wall-seesaw/
4. Artist: Las Tesis Title: Un Violador en Tu Camino – A Rapist in Your Path – A song with movement used by Chilean women protesting the treatment of women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5AAscy7qbI&ab_channel=GuardianNews
5. Artist: Amy Scaife Title: Human Cost – Protesting cultural institutions for taking money from companies that have connections to unethical/immoral behaviours
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/boards-museums-money-2019-1600507
This is a very detailed and descriptive blog including the task you had to complete and how it made you feel. I enjoyed how you managed to research your chosen stimulus further to collect meaning behind the image, and then used this to help influence your movement further. Was there any specific choreographic devices that you used when creating this movement?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Storm, Yes during our small section of choreography we looked at unison and canon as a way to develop our choreography further. This made our choreography look more advanced which allows the audience to have more of an interest within the piece.
DeleteThis is a very detailed blog, I especially liked how you went into further research about your image and stimulus. When discussing the images as a class, did anyone’s ideas make you see any of the images differently?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Megan, yes being able to listen to the classes ideas and interpretations of each picture definitely changed how I saw the images, especially the the photo of the man covered in oil. When discussing it in my group we thought it would be tar from a cigarette and how smoking takes over peoples lives. However after reading other annotations I realised that it could've been oil, a mould or him trying to break free from the goo that was covering his identity.
DeleteThis is a really good blog Lucy, containing detailed and relevant information as well as a clear structure. I liked how you described the different movement material you had created for your short motif and how it linked to your chosen stimulus. Did you face any challenges when creating your final motif?
DeleteThank you for your comment Bella, yes we did come across a challenge when creating our motif and that was us not wanting to focus on Breonna herself as we thought this would be disrespectful, so we overcome this by deciding as a group that we would focus more on the idea of things being taken away from you without your permission.
DeleteYour post on this weeks lesson is very clear and describes the task well, personally I found it interesting seeing the different interpretations of the stimuli, what did you find most interesting?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Eloisa, for me what was most interesting was comparing the classes annotations to the actual meanings of the photos and how not everyone interprets the images the same way.
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