Choreography for Group Performance (MU503740)

I observed Hofesh Shechter’s online piece of ‘Sun’(Sadler’s Wells, 2013) for inspiration as I admire how unique and recognisable his work is. He uses signature movements, for example a lot of hunched over movements are featured in his pieces. I suggested using ‘Sun’ for inspiration to my group because the piece includes small, simple movements like quickly touching parts of the face and then freezing after touching the mouth as though they were holding onto words. I believed that something like this could really work in our piece as the audience tends to pay attention to minor movements because there aren’t any distractions and if everyone in the piece does it in unison it can become something very powerful. As a group we then worked on where and what we could do to create a similar impact, so we decided that we would stand still and zip up our mouths and use a locking motion and drop the key, the intention for this small sequence is that we are self-conscious of others hearing our t...

In the last few choreographic sessions we’ve been focusing on piecing together motifs and smoothing out the structure to bring a clear performance the audience. As mentioned previously we have solos and duets in the piece, where we discussed what it meant to have these solos/duets and if there could be any intention behind a trio or quartet. I think there’s no significance behind a trio or quartet since the solo represents Bryan Charnley and an outside perspective of what he would’ve been going through and the duet conveys the mind and schizophrenia battling against each other, which portrays the perspective inside his head. (Pilgrim.O, 2022) In an earlier session we have established the structure of the piece, however in the most current rehearsal we discussed what the next sections of choreography would be. From this discussion we decided to choreograph two counts of eight individually and the arrive at the following rehearsal with those phrases so that we can piece them toget...