Week 8: Creative Development Session 2

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 creative process would be interesting to use with the idea that the cogs were the object and move round these. 

After the first session, I did more research on memory loss and head injuries as well as, re-watching some of Wayne McGregor’s rehearsal videos and interviews. When researching, memory loss I had the idea of using one section and throughout my piece, this section changes, either with steps being mistaken, forgotten about or performed in a different order. 

I have created a passage of movement inspired by my chosen practitioner Wayne McGregor and his creative process of physical thinking, in the video below this is me using his creative process of physical thinking with the idea of the Cogs being the object. In this video use a lot of turns and rotations, to represent the movement of the Cogs, as well as imagining they're in front of me and moving around them.






This has helped and inspired me to create more rotation movements because of Wayne McGregor’s creative processes and stylisation. It also has helped my piece look fluid and helps it flow, especially in the ‘natural’ section of my piece as the rotations all link to the next step as well as the arm lines and the use of the upper body. 

I have been using this process throughout both rehearsals because of the research I did on it, as I watched various videos and interviews with Wayne McGregor about this technique. However, this was the first time incorporating it into my piece and not just experimenting different ideas, at first  I found this very challenging but then I found it empowering as there were no rules to it and you could just go where ever you wanted and use whatever movements you wanted to use, to portray that idea so it comes across to the audience what is happening and the story being told .





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  1. Abigail Dowse14 November 2019 at 07:36

    I really enjoyed reading your blog Megan. Following from your previous work i'm starting to see how your choreography is piecing together which is really good.
    I love that fact you have included a video of your inspired movement from your practitioner Wayne Mcgregor.
    I'm excited to see how your choreography improves further.

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  2. Miss Norman24 November 2019 at 07:34

    You have made a good start to your reflective post and have clearly described where you are currently at within your work. In relation to the criteria, I would say that this post currently sits around the 2:2 mark. For further development, discuss how your current creative process may differ to the process you used at the start of your development. I would also like you to discuss your movement in relation to your stimulus as well as your research further. Are there any examples of where your use of research behind your stimulus has added depth to your piece? Have you integrated any choreographic devices within your work? Additionally, think about how your research may have evolved over the past few weeks. I found it very interesting how you like to improvise and then pick out movements. Do you have any videos of this creative process?

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    1. Megan Foster2 December 2019 at 10:51

      Thankyou for your comment! When choreographing my solo I have been using a lot of improvisation to figure out what movements to do next and this is a lot more creative and personal. The movements I have created vary in dynamics, some are very soft and natural whereas some are very sharp and fast. When researching into memory loss, I read that at first it could be not remembering daily routines, so when creating my piece I used one section and changed this with different directions and orders to portray the idea of memory loss. I have used the choreographic devices of accumulation, repetition and retrograde in piece.

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  3. SadieMedcalf27 November 2019 at 11:22

    Well done Megan this blog is very clear in what you did this lesson. I like how you are going to show memory loss through the repeating movements in a different order. Do you think that this will clearly portray to the audience the idea of memory loss? How else will you show this idea?

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    1. Megan Foster29 November 2019 at 12:43

      Thankyou Sadie! I feel this will portray to the audience as it is one section that is constantly repeated as well as changed throughout the piece. I am also showing this idea with the use of retrograde and the use of my facial expressions to get the performance across to the audience.

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  4. Eloisa Goodall2 December 2019 at 11:03

    Your blog is very well written and clear to read. How did you overcome the challenge of incorporating McGregor's techniques?

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    1. Megan Foster2 December 2019 at 11:13

      Thankyou for your comment! I found it helped watching his rehearsal videos, as this was a lot more clear and useful to see how McGregor works with his dancers and creates his pieces.

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