Creative Development: A Reflection On My Process So Far

As mentioned in a previous blog my stimulus is the glam jail photo. The message I would like to convey from this is the idea of feeling trapped inside yourself, in a situation where you view the outside world in an utopian way. However realistically you are never happy or content with your life, even when you break the wall of anxiety you hide behind you may still not be satisfied with yourself. I also wanted to expand on how the jail box looks like an upload on social media, emphasising the consuming effect social media can have on everyone, and how a post online can be a fake representation of how someone looks, feels, and thinks.

The First step I made in my choreographic process was choosing the music, the music is called Escape Room, written by Bryan Tyler and John Carey. Escape room is a horror film and the music I am using is the main theme tune so as you can imagine it is very intense and dramatic. Ironically not only does the title fit with our stimulus and theme but it also really compliments the movement ideas I had when moving forwards with this project. So, the idea of being trapped and never really finding an escape can easily be portrayed

In the beginning I do very staccato movements including isolations with different parts of the body, whilst drawing a box with my feet. This section represents the idea of being trapped in a social media post I then proceed to dance in the box for a small section of the piece following a very staccato movement, hoping to relate back to this at the end. We have used a range of choreographic devices so far such as, repetition, syncopation, levels, climax and accumulation. However, we have also used accumulation in the choreography process where we layered movements on top of others to create a more intricate step. I also took inspiration from my chosen practitioner and created movement purely just from what I felt like doing when I entered the studio, as Crystal Pite discusses in her flight pattern interview. (Royal Opera Ballet, 2019)

Some feedback I have received is to try and use more space and to think about how I can change the movement at the beginning, so it is less repetitive, to do this I have tried syncopating some sections so that it isn’t the same throughout the first section, and then as I’ve added more choreography I have developed how far it travels and changed directions trying to cover larger amounts of the studio.


Bibliography:

Royal Opera Ballet, 2019. Crystal Pite on her ballet flight pattern. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPy9TesbS8w> [Accessed 19 October 2021].

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