Megan's Choreography

This week’s vlog is about the impact Wayne McGregor, my chosen practitioner, has had on the industry. The website I used for information is: https://www.roh.org.uk/

In this week’s blog, I am going to be reviewing and critiquing Wayne McGregor’s piece ‘Genus’, this piece was first performed in 2007 with the company of Paris Opera Ballet and altogether is a 45-minute piece but I will be reviewing and critiquing the solo section in the piece. The piece Genus is about DNA and how the body is a living archive.  I really enjoyed watching this piece and especially liked how it was a solo, as it allowed us as the audience to focus on the individual dancer. I found the choreography to be really interesting and liked how there were a range of dynamics, for example some of the movements would be very quick and sharp and this would then lead into a much more soft and relaxed movement.  As well as, I liked how you could see how the ballet moves had been adapted to make the piece more engaging. I also liked the use of body throughout the piece, as I feel this was very unique and allowed each movement to link into the next. Nevertheles...

       This is a short clip of the opening section of my solo. In this weeks session I did my studio performance of my solo for my assessment piece. At the start of the lesson, I felt nervous about performing my solo however, overall I felt my performance went well and I was able to remember all of my movements I had choreographed in the three previous lessons.  After performing my solo for the studio performance, I felt that I had achieved the three learning outcomes as my brief represents my chosen stimulus of the Cog Head, I was also very happy that I had included all the choreographic devices I wanted to in my piece and this came across well to the audience, especially: accumulation, retrograde and repetition as I felt this were the most important yet the most challenging choreographic devices in my piece. I also felt my research about memory loss and about my chosen practitioner, Wayne McGregor, really helped with the story telling of the pie...

In this week’s blog, I am going to be critiquing and reviewing my chosen practitioner, Wayne McGregor’s piece Wolf Works. This piece was first performed in 2015, by the company of The Royal Ballet and it is a 95-minute piece. The piece is about the idea of humans being ‘both physical body and uncontained essence’  When first watching the piece, I wasn’t too sure if I liked it because I found it to be very chaotic and I wasn’t too sure what was happening however, when watching it again I found it more interesting and I really liked how McGregor used classical ballet steps and incorporated a unique and contemporary style to make the piece. I also like how McGregor incorporated the use of pointe work and pas de deux as again this gave a classical element to the piece but was so interesting as he put his own twist on the lifts with the use of different directions, speeds and levels.  I really like how the dancers dance and travel into the spotlight, allowi...

This weeks vlog was about my final lesson of my solo before the studio performance and how this week went.

In today’s session, I went back and recapped what I did last lesson and improved some of my steps as I felt they didn’t flow and this then improves my solo overall. Now I have completed just over two minutes of my solo, this is behind where I wanted to be but I have been and will continue to over the next week to work on my solo in my spare time, outside of school hours. When choreographing my solo, I sometimes find it challenging to think of different movements, ensuring I am using all of the space and different directions, if I am finding it difficult to think of movements, I play the music and improvise a few times this allows me to be able to understand the music more and think of new, creative movements for my piece. In my piece I was inspired by Wayne McGregor’s creative processes of physical thinking, I saw this on his Ted Talk interview and it is when you pretend an object is in front of you and you then move round this with different body parts. I thought this creativ...

This weeks vlog is about my first creative session of my solo for the assessment, based on the stimulus of the Cog Head.

The stimulus I have chosen is Cog Head, this is an image of the natural human head on one half and the other half is mechanical with cogs, representing how the brain works and operates. This image reminded me of how important the human body is and how our brain operates everything we do and I then came to think what would happen if the brain stopped working and what it would be like to not remember childhood memories or even memories that happened the previous week or day. My idea is to contrast these and incorporate the idea of memory loss, and how set routines everyday are forgotten about or change because of the memory loss. After deciding on using the idea of memory loss, I decided to research the short and long term effects of memory loss and what can cause and lead up to memory loss. I first researched the different causes of memory loss as I wanted to incorporate this in my piece so it built up as the piece went on, here are some of the causes I found when researching: m...