On Tuesday 14th March we had our first Dance Video Rehearsal to begin forming and putting together choreography. This ran from 5 till 7 and we aimed to roughly choreograph and outline the Arachnophobia section in this rehearsal.
We began by letting Dancer Grace warm up while we prepared ourselves. Then when she was ready I quickly ran over the storyboard and choreography scores I made to give her a rough idea of the type of style and some of the dance moves we would like incorporated. I then played her the 6 minute music track we had made for the piece so she could hear it and hopefully feel inspired.
We began by having a brainstorm together about the style we want Arachnophobia. I explained about the low levels with lots of fast travelling and also about how her hand to begin by being the spider (as we had discussed and practiced in a previous workshops). We began using this idea to start laying out some moves. We began then piecing all our ideas together. To make it progress even further we started thinking using first hand research and our own knowledge as to why spiders are specifically scary. We spoke about the speed and the surprise and also about the amount of legs they have. We took all of this into account to develop dance moves where she is embodied by the spider. Me and Grace then began to piece all of these together as well and continued to work on more movements consciously trying to keep it low levelled and themed in this particular style. It was very helpful that Grace was so keen to get involved as she was really good at working with me to suggest ideas for the choreography and together we worked out the Arachnophobia routine which even though it is only roughly laid out at this time I am very happy with.
(Rehearsal Videos/Footage coming soon!)
The following day on Wednesday 15th March we had another rehearsal with Grace from 5 till 7 to again work on the Choreography.
Today we were focusing on how to finish Arachnophobia successfully to then lead on to Claustrophobia and hopefully lay out basic choreography for this Claustrophobia section. We went with finishing Arachnophobia in a similar way to how we started it so that it went somewhere and also so we could bring the pace back down ready to go into Claustrophobia. We then started brainstorming ways to represent claustrophobia. Again we referred to words and feedback given in our surveys and also own experiences and knowledge to help us. We also then went on to try a task we developed in the Dance workshops where by Grace was trying to move out of an imaginary box which we then had Katherine trying to trap her in by pulling her back overtime. This was helpful to see how her body moved in this situation as she was restricted. We then started working with this idea of entrapment and restriction within imaginary limitations. This helped make some successful floor work which represented it nicely. We then moved to try add some higher levels into this as well as we felt it was getting too dull all on one level. We found it harder tow rock on standing movements so again thought back to the task we tried where Katherine pulled Grace around and we began to think into this and had Grace begin pulling herself round the space. We then adapted this to add it into the dance. we eventually managed to develop and mark out a set piece of Choreography for Claustrophobia using these various techniques and by working together on this.
(Rehearsal Videos/Footage coming soon!)
I was very happy with how these two rehearsals went because in 4 hours we managed to mark out 4 minutes of Choreography using techniques learnt in previous workshops. We now need to focus on the next rehearsal which will take place during the Pre-Light on Friday 17th.
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