Personal reflection

My group has managed to finish our choreography and full fill both of our motifs. I think that the next steps are to learn and refine piece and focus on portraying emotion through our moments to make our message clear. Personally, I think that there are certain movements I will change to make the piece more suitable to my choreographic vision and creative process. This will enhance my part in the process and showcase my own personal stimulus and motifs.

During this process my research on Matha Graham really helped forward my process. Her technique and performances inspired my own movements and I feel like I have used a lot of my research on her into my piece. Her use of sharp fast and bouncy movements really spoke to my second motif and her contrasting style which highlighted the use of flow and suspension heavily inspired my first motif.

During the process I feel like my group faced a lot of challenges. During the midway point we were stuck on creating movement itself and some feedback we got was to empathize the story we are trying to tell. We were able to overcome this by each devising small 30 second sections and combining them to fill our music. Another issue we faces was making each section we creative cohesive to each other’s and making it fit well with the music. Musicality and timing is something that I think we will need to refine and go over now we are near the end of the process and now that we have a full three minute of choreography to show.