- Explore Cunningham's chance method of creating choreography.
- How music can influence the dancer to create choreography.
- How chance can expand the creativity of the choreographer.
- Analyse and highlight the benefits and reasons for why choreographers should collaborate with a range of art forms and create new ways of creating movement.
Task: use chance as a method to attach music accordingly to the movement. The dancers have to create 4 counts of 8 of movement on their own.
Use music on shuffle to create unpredictability.
First I got the group to decide the track they wanted to dance to. Sia big girl cry. This is a new song out that is well known. I found that when I left them to talk about it that they were discussing what track they could choose so that it would fit with the movement that they felt comfortable with, they were pre planning their choreography without even realising. The movement that they used became predictable.
Whilst watching I saw.. That the music and movement directly went, the music is very repetitive in rhythm and the dance movement that was created , became similar. Because of this there wasn't any moments of light and shade and dynamic climax.
I also wondered if they choose this song and movement style because of their knowledge of previous dance history.
All three dancers began to create movement directly to the songs rhythms, when the song finished i waited to see if they would put the music back on and they did, this shows that they were creating movements directly to the music and they were relying upon it.
Now I gave them the task of creating movement with Merce Cunningham's chance method. I can see that the chance method began to layer and develop the movement to become more interesting to watch.
We rolled the dice to see what constructions would be used to develop the movement.
Here are the choreographic devices for the numbers on the dice.
1- use a different body part
2- add a movement
3- create a moment of contact with another dancer
4- hold a position in stillness throughout the piece
5- speed up or slow down the phrase
6- travel your movement to enter or exit the stage space.
The first time round was, fast and slow, fast and slow, and hold stillness
The second time it was, use another body part, moment of contact, travel your piece.
The third time it was, add a movement in, speed up or slow down, contact.
Afterwards I asked them to roll the dice to determine which dance phase would be used then I shuffled my music playlist to see which song they would perform it to. Which created the element of unpredictability.
Discussion on today's exercise.
Which dance choreography and random music from shuffle worked the best?
Feedback,
3rd, halo music shuffle worked well as a group the ending and the start.
2nd one, meditation music felt awkward when I had movement that was fast
Do you think that if you were to improvise with music that you would get a different out come?
Feedback, Your more likely to dance to the style and genre of music because you haven't got any choreography before hand. There's no one telling you what to do, it's just you. If you have created the piece before you already have a style so you tend to stay to that style, whether you are used to it or not.You can also begin to rely on what the autopilot is telling you what to do.
This shows that creating movement prior to adding music will create a more interesting outcome. You have a clear head and haven't got any influences to begin with. I think that it is still important to have a theme for a starting point in some cases.
Do you think it's important that there are benefits for choreographers?
Feedback,
You get more out of your creativity, you crate to the music.
It adds more dept to the dance
I feel that this workshop expressed the importance of combining art forms, and using music to enhance movement and not to just add onto it. This experiment showed how choreographers can become more creative and unique.
Merce Cunningham's approach to adding music to dance after the choreography has been made.
The question arises Do you think this is a good way to choreograph?
How do you choreograph a dance? Would you choose music first when having to choreograph?
Feedback,
Tessa would start creating movement with different music and try out different types of movement because she finds and adapts different movement once found a track?
Sam- pick a song , mess around and see what's best.
Chelsea- picks a song, the song is a starting stimulus and then the movement creates from there.
Depends on the situation
If there are accents in the music you will have to adapt it to the music if you haven't already rehearsed with the music.
Music comes then you can create the choreography
Whereas musical theatre you will have to listen to the music before hand, and there is always a storyline in musical theatre to represent.
How did you feel whilst doing the task today?
Feedback,
Some areas were difficult when someone had to make contact with another dancer.
Whereas as a group we thought it was an easy enough challenge to rearrange our choreography
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