Composition and structure

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 together and form a group section. Our reason for this was because we are working with a very little time frame with a small amount of rehearsals in a week. The idea for this section was to make the audience feel unfamiliar and vulnerable because that’s how we want to come across during that particular part. Pilgrim.O (2022) Schizophrenia End Duet. [Image] [Accessed 8th December 2022] In the choreography I have been putting forward and suggesting to my group that we could use repetition by taking movement from my solo and placing it in to the group sections to create a sense the illness is getting worse by repeating movements and allowing them to increase in intensity and scale.