Choreography for Group Performance (MU503740)

I have confidence in that my group choreographic piece went well and was successful because we presented the movement with passion and clear dynamics. I could clearly see the contrast in dynamics as the smooth moments had a strong change in the sharper and more precise movements. To add we all moved very well in unison and the duet between Eabha and I was performed in a strong manner which contained a lot of clarity for the story line as I have observed the video of the performance. This specific duet seemed to hold the theme of the piece very well, however in comparison to this section I would’ve liked to see more intention with the other sections. Something I would’ve changed to the unison sections that didn’t hold a great amount of purpose is, using physical contact and becoming a unit like how the brain and the body is all connected and working together to function. (Pilgrim.O, 2022) Overall I trust that we performed our piece very well with a good deal of intention and purpo...

Our original intentions for the piece were to portray a pedestrian, paranoid and anxious theme at the beginning of the piece, then an atmosphere of frustration and chaos, to disconnect and a sense of unfamiliarity and to end the piece the audience should feel relief and calm. These we’re all the feelings we still want the audience to experience, we also want other intentions such as the theme of schizophrenia and slowly losing your mind to clearly come across. (Pilgrim.O, 2022) I believe that we achieved our original intentions well because we showed a battle between the schizophrenia and the mind as well as a solo that focussed on the paranoia that comes with schizophrenia. Even though there was choreography that expressed the theme well, there were definitely sections where we could’ve replaced choreography that didn’t involve enough meaning as I felt it didn’t hold enough intention. It became quite clear that as a group we were very polite with each other’s ideas and we needed t...

Recently we have been working on the final section of our piece, finding different concepts and movement to portray the end of Bryan Charnley’s life. We wanted to convey a theme of surrendering and peacefulness he seemed to feel once he’d stopped taking his medication. The movement we used for this section includes high releases and leaning in to others because my character is becoming unstable and lifeless. My character in the ending is Bryan Charnley himself and the rest of the group are playing a pedestrian human role that acknowledge my characters death but continue to move on with their lives. We originally had the idea of myself being lifted in the Christ position and walking off to represent a funeral and the grief of Bryan Charnley, however a member in the group has injured their back and was struggling to lift me, therefore we changed the ending to something more meaningful and intentional. This new choreography was the piece described in the previous paragraph. The mus...