-Practised developments I did with Amber last week
-Developed it further by adding a third person
-Brain storm from the board (photo)
-Katie Hopkins quote
-Expand and analyse
-Think about Choreographic ideas of how to portray emotion and how to manipulate it.
-WWW
-EBI
To begin we recapped on the motif that we did as a whole group last week. This is the original motif that we did before we went of in pairs to develop it. This was useful because I started remembering mine and Ambers developments that we made, and even inspired me to make some new developments. We then got into our pairs, so I worked with Amber, to recap what we had achieved the lesson before, so to do this we ran through our motif and the developments that we had made. We then developed it further by adding a third person, as Jade joined our group. This was interesting because it added another viewer or another reporter to do with media, and this added a different effect the motif because it makes the audience see how it effects different people. To change the partner work, we cut the contact part where amber covers my mouth and I push her away, and changed this to all three of us manipulating each other. For example we were standing in a line, I was on the left, Amber in the middle and Jade was on the right. I started by pushing my left arm towards them and did a side lunge to the left, they then did the same but instead of pushing their arm, they covered their ears as if I was telling a lie or a secret. We then used repetition and Jade did the same thing as me, but we lunged to the right. Then Amber did a plie in second position, and pushed both arms towards me and Jade, and we both did a Lunge away from her, so I went to the left and she went to the right, covering our ears. I felt like this was effective because it showed things spreading like secrets and media telling lies.
We then started researching for starting points for some choreography. Myself and Izzy did this task together as we had similar ideas of what we wanted to choreograph. We started by looking on twitter for outrageous quotes that would cause some debating and conflict. One person we felt would fuel a lot of media debates would be Katie Hopkins because she is known for being open on her opinions. We found some twitter quotes that mostly revolved around racism, and politics one of them we felt that we could work with which I have a screen shot of:
I think that this quote shows racism, and lack of equality, something that society has been working on for years, and something that anyone can ruin with a social network account. I also think that because Katie Hopkins has a wide range of followers, this tweet was more popular than someone who wasn't well known on twitter, purely because of her celebrity status, which made the quote sound more outrageous, which represents the theme of how powerful media is and how it can manipulate the public, but also how it can hurt and upset people.
Overall I think that this lesson went well because I was able to continue my choreography for mine and Amber's developments to the original motif we learnt, and I was able to develop it further by adding a third person. This was useful because it allowed me to know how to develop motifs without using action, space, dynamics or other choreographic devises, but with people instead, and this made the overall piece look more effective because it showed a wider range of people effected by the media throughout our choreography.
I think to improve, I would have liked to have started some initial choreography for the quote me and Izzy found. We had some ideas for how we could make it work in terms of partner and contact work, but I think that next lesson I will start choreography for it and work on how I could represent this one quote in a dance duet with Izzy.
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