8 - Personal Development and Reflection

  

We have finished choreographing our solo. Next week, as it is the last week before our assessment we will focus on cleaning and embellishing the adding the last few details to some movements within our piece. We plan on running the solo a few times to make sure the order of movements is clear in our minds. We received feedback to slow down our ending phrase so we will continue to adjust and experiment with the timing and see what works best (before and after seen in videos below). 

 

I have learned a great deal of information from researching about our chosen practitioner, James Cousins, and his pieces ‘Taste Water Again’, and ‘Everything or Nothing’. As we continued on our choreographic journey, learning about how Cousins creates movement and implements deep intentions within his pieces allowed us to choreograph more easily. It is Cousisn’s way of using motifs and deep intention that directly inspired us while creating our solo, more so than the movements themselves. We integrated this specific research into the movement phrases we have built by including repetition of covering our eyes, creating both flowy and sharp movements which ensured our solo involved contrast, and towards the end of our choreographic process we have embellished certain aspects. 

 

It took us a few weeks to get used to choreographing movement, as it was something new to all of us and certainly was a small challenge. As we started choreographic process it gradually became easier, and now we have overcome this challenge. This made the process of creating movement a bit slow in the beginning, but it later picked up as we got used to choreographing. We were determined to finish our solo ensuring we had enough time to polish it before our assessment.