Choreography for Solo Performance MU40370O

In this blog, I will be discussing my chosen practitioner, Wayne McGregor’s, creative approach and style and how that compares with the process of how I choreograph. One similarity that McGregor and I have in common is that we both are heavily influenced by the stimulus. This means his movements, storyline and interpretation are all embodiments or movements inspired by the stimulus (McGregor, 2012). Wayne McGregor has worked with a wide range of stimuli, which allows the choreographer to be unique and have original ideas (McGregor, 2012). Personally, I usually interpret my stimuli with issues that are important or interest me, this is the process in which McGregor chooses his stimuli. However, McGregor and I differentiate in styles as he often uses improvisation to stimulate movements for his piece (McGregor, 2012). Personally, I don't like to use improvisation in choreography as the original movement can never be interpreted again. Additionally, I believe that mine and McGregor’s ...

(Brown, 2022) In this blog, I will be discussing the development and inspirations that helped the creation of my choreography solo. The first step in my creative process was the Stimulus, my group discussed and brainstormed ideas that came to mind from the art work. We all agreed that our piece would be linked to the idea of isolation, being trapped and our body language would display the physical and mental states of this character. Collectively, we had themes for each section and we linked them all back to the theme of being trapped.  The first section was choreographed collaboratively and was in interpretation of the stimulus image of the women being in the jail cell. We choreographed this section using clear counts and we workshopped movements that best convey the image, the mood for this section is very eerie and disassociated as she accepted her aloneness.  The second section was choreographed by myself based on Locked-in Syndrome, this section includes the embodiment of...

  In this blog, I will be discussing Wayne McGregor's creative process in creating his piece called Atomos. Wayne used the dancers as a main part of the choreography process, he watched what movements they created while improvising and used elements in his piece to create choreography. He gave information to the dancers about maintaining formations and elements, meaning they could have freedom within the realms of his rules he set for the dancers (WellcomeCollection, 2014). McGregor referred back to octopus inspired movements to help the dancers add characterisation and a theme to their execution of movements. For the stimulus, McGregor used short clips from a film and atomised it. The dancers then used this as inspiration for their improvisation (WellcomeCollection, 2014). At the start of the piece, the dancers are in a cluster formation centre stage and they use the device of negative space to move around each other. They use partnering to create lifts that fill the space and mak...

  (TEDtalksDirector, 2012) In this blog, I will be discussing a short motif that I have created using inspiration from Wayne McGregor’s demonstration on TED talks. He explains and shares his choreographic pathway by showing how he can create a phrase and have his dancers execute and interpret parts of it to create choreography. He describes the dancers as objects and lines so the audience can visualise their movements as an embodiment of the word instead of people dancing (McGregor, 2012). In the demonstration he uses the stimulus of the word “ted” to create his movements (TEDtalksDirector, 2012). He visualises the word in many forms to create different angles for his choreography. For example, he imagines the word flattened on the floor, writing the letters with his body movements and also being inside the letters (TEDtalksDirector, 2012). This creates an abstract piece with many interpretations for the audience and allows the dancers to have a varied creativity process.  I h...