Dance Video - Tutorial 2

We attended another tutorial with Rachel on Monday 27th Feb to discuss where we had got so far with the piece and to get some useful feedback. Here are the main points of what we discussed:

We spoke about the type of dancing that would be taking place for each Phobia-

Arachnophobia - Hand moving as and like a spider, the body small in a big space, scurrying, low levels, on hands and feet (body down low)

Claustrophobia - one dancer trapping the other, person in the middle, tracking and panning, over the shoulder, camera is trapping the body

Astraphobia - if as as duet more nurturing, dancer being electrocuted, your hand has been electrocuted, your leg has been zapped.

Now we had spoken about the way we would like the dance to look we then discussed tasks e could set the dancers in rehearsals in order to be able to provoke some interesting and emotional movement. Here is what we came up with:

- We have been getting people to fill out Phobia Surveys I made to get some first hand responses of how people react to their phobias and how they feel etc. We could take some of this language and read it to the dancers as they then interrupt it to see what kind of movements they come up with. This would be a very real way to create movement.

- We could also experiment with the idea of fight or flight as this is a big part on Phobias. We could ask the dancer for example to image they are faced with their fear and then get them to react in a fight way and then in a fight way to compare the different kind of moments we receive and see if this helps us and them.

- One for Claustrophobia would be getting a one dancer to try the other and see the different movements then used to try and escape from this space. We briefly experimented with this in a early Dance Workshop but I would want to revise it. We could then maybe remove the dancer who is trapping them and see if they are able to reenact that entrapment alone as this might be an interesting route.

- Another task for Astraphobia could be that we really play with this idea of being struck by lighting so we could as they dance and move ask them to act like different parts of their bodies have been struct or almost electrocuted and then see what interesting reactionary movements we form from this.

These tasks will give us something to work from within our rehearsals so that we can choreograph some interesting and exciting movements with the dancers that convey the emotions want.

We then discussed an action plan with her and informed her of all our dissections about the studio and dancers etc (refer to previous blogs posts). A particularly important thing we need to add to our action plan which she did remind us of was a storyboard. I am very happy to do this as I feel I have a strong idea in my head of how I want it to look.

This tutorial was very useful just to discuss much more of the dance aspects of this project and talk a lot more about choreography which has left me feeling inspired.