Here is my initial Choreographic Lab proposal that I pitched to my dancers this week.
Choreographic Lab Proposal on
Composer and Filmmaker Thierry De Mey and Choreographer Teresa de Keersmaeker
My
practise as research will be a collaboration between composer Thierry De Mey
and Choreographer Teresa de Keersmaeker. I want to research these two artists
because they both have an interest in the relationships between music and dance
as I do. I know we were supposed to choose one choreographer however, after
researching and finding out that Thierry de Mey and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
have collaborated before I thought it would be interesting to fuse both the
choreographic themes and the compositional ideas together in order to influence
my own work.
Influences from research
Table
Music’ by Thierry de Mey consists of three performers creating sound on wood.
This work really inspired me to want to create my own music from objects other
than instruments instead of using a sound accompaniment backing track.
Anne
Teresa de Keersmaeker’s work focuses on the importance of music and how it can
influence the human body to move. During my research I watched a video of her
work ‘Performance 13: On Line (2011)’ and the use of sand showed a sense of
specific arrangement, planning and architecture. There was a very geometric,
mathematical approach to this work however I liked the simplistic movement material
and performance attitude. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker work has inspired me to
want to create a musical score to start off with, so that it will allow for my
dancers to feel a connection between body and rhythm.
What I propose to do
I
propose that I would use two of my dancers within an experimental workshop to create
sound on objects such as metal, wood, plastic, paper and tins. With an idea of
then beginning to create a musical score that would accompany my movement.
Keersmaeker’s
works involve an element of performance Art, so I also would like to experiment
with my dancers creating something visual. I would like the blank stage space
to transform, so the audience can actually see their presence when they are not
there anymore.
Theoretical Source
1 –
Conversation between Massimiliano Schiavoni and Thierry de Mey. They discuss
where and when his interest in dance begun, his first work and his company and
his collaborations with choreographers.
Available
at URL: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-036/theirry-de-mey-music-movement/
(Accessed on 21/04/15)
Video Clips
1- Table music by Thierry de Mey,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91emaxq0iY
2- Performance 13: On Line (2011) by Anne
Teresa de Keersmaeker, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1OHl8_MPEg
3- Live Drawing and Dance Response to
visual art: Laura Kvelstein and Jaanika Peerna,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K4Tr70q5JI
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