Week 4 – Key Practitioner Lesson Two


In our 4th choreography lesson we started to watch work of Wayne McGregor and Crystal Pite, to give us inspiration for choreographic techniques. Pite listens to music first to help aid her choreography whereas McGregor’s movements come from visualisation and is more research based, so he makes the movement and then puts it to music. We used this method in our next creative task. We watched a video of raindrops falling on a window and how the droplets crash into each other causing another droplet to move, the stillness of some droplets but the knowledge that as water is a liquid even if it seems still, the particles are constantly moving and flowing. We were challenged to an improvisation task in which we were to make movement as if we were a raindrop. I did small movements to begin with by stayed constantly moving and then increased the speed and height of my movements. I also used the idea of rise and fall/release to show the idea of another droplet bumping into me causing me to move, this also changed the dynamics of the improvisations by adding speed and direction changes. I did find this task quite difficult as it was hard to use the stimulus as improvisation material as it is quite abstract, but once I got into it and started to keep my movements fluid like a liquid, it made it a lot easier as the movements didn’t need to be actual steps or movements it could be as simple as a shoulder roll.

We have done other creative tasks in the past few weeks as shown in previous blog posts. These include choreography based on a geometric shape amp, zodiac sign, letters in our name and our phone number. I really enjoyed these creative tasks as they really pushed me to be more creative based on a stimulus and also helped me develop my work to be better by incorporating choreographic devices such as repetition, fragmentation and canon. I also started using gestures to show ideas and themes within my choreography. I struggled to begin with as I wasn’t sure what movements to do, especially with the shapes map because I wasn’t sure how to portray the shapes clearly but once I started to use floor patterns and incorporate different body parts it made it much easier. I did achieve the task I was set as I was given verbal feedback from my class stating that my intentions within the creative tasks were clear.

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  1. NHorn Choreography31 October 2019 at 08:11

    Which choreographer has influenced your creative process the most?

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    1. Mhairi Wallace7 November 2019 at 13:53

      I found Wayne McGregor's process most interesting and I really enjoy his choreography so I feel his creative process has influenced me most and I will attempt to use his processes and stylisation within my choreography.

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  2. Miss Norman26 November 2019 at 10:13

    Excellent work! Looking back, have these processes allowed you to form your own ideas for your own creative processes to create movement? If so, what are your new ideas?

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    1. Mhairi Wallace1 December 2019 at 09:10

      These processes have helped give me inspiration for my own creative process as I now aim to use the method we used when creating the name motif. I found that task quite challenging originally but once it was completed it created a really unique motif which was able to be developed with motifs. I think my own creative process will be a mix of McGregor's and Pite's as learning about their processes helped me form my own. I will listen to the music first and then create the movement to it, similar to Pite. However, I will also do a lot of research prior to choreography similar to McGregor's process.

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