Evaluation of dance solo

My immediate response to the entire stimulus was to select either the poem "Trinity at Low Tide" or the "Blue Nudes." The "Four elements" would be very difficult to compose a dance for because of the necessity to make use of the different planes, when the Isshin Emerging music was first played, my immediate response would be that it would be an original piece of music to construct a dance to. However after careful consideration, the sensible conclusion was that perhaps too difficult to be influenced by another countries music and their traditions without actually partaking in the dancing style that would have originally been used to the music. Re-looking at both stimulus of the "Blue Nudes" and "Trinity at Low Tide" I felt that it would be better to use the "Blue Nudes" because as a stimulus it allowed freedom; it did not

speculate any specific movements allowing for the individuals own interpretation as well as the research which would provide more ideas and hopefully provide evidence for the individuals own interpretation and it allowed music to be chosen of my own will. The first thing that I thought the stimulus required was individual interpretation and feedback from the pictures, as in art it is important what the audience perceptions of the pictures are. When analysing the pictures I concluded that the pictures showed an amount of pain, frustration and anger because of the internalisation of the bodies’ gestures, this also suggests isolation perhaps suggesting she is scared and afraid. The energy is all on the person who is compressed into a box by the environment, overcome with emotion. Due to the fact that the pictures are abstract it shows the primitive nature of the pictures; lost of judgment and humanity. In “Blue Nudes III” it appears that the woman through her hand is suggesting she is breaking out of the invisible box that she has been forced into by society. The next thing that had to be done when analysing a picture is to research the picture, using the internet and a variety of books the information that I acquired suggested that the ambiguity of the shapes allow interplay between the positive blue area and the negative white background which defines the figure into a three dimensional sculpture, Matisse was expressing revolt against nature through his pictures, desire which art used to express blindly, outsmarting the control of the time which at the time which Matisse was painting art expressed, Matisse tried to idealise the organic body an attempt to idealise the transcending bodily instinct- the sharpen sublimity of Matisse cut-outs hints his impulsiveness. To use this information in my dance I must show the revolt against nature, take into account Matisse’s use of geometric shapes and show the organic transcending body. The research and my response had a huge influence on my dance because it formed the basis of my dance, once the information had been gathered work on the dance could begin. I started to look at how I could portray the elements and emotions that I had researched and I began to put them into an order.

The choreographed dance was to be performed in a dance studio; however this did create a few problems because I had choreographed most of the moves in a smaller space at home, it now meant that the dance had to be adjusted to fit the proxemics of the dance studio. Proxemics is the is essential for a performance; it is the positioning of people in relation to each other and the use of both “fixed” and “semi-fixed” areas. The “fixed” proxemics of the walls in the dance studio and the room in which I practiced were very different, as were the “semi-fixed” areas which are defined by the boundaries such as furniture. Informal space is characterized by a personal zone that constitutes an area that protects from the intrusion of insiders. Along with gestures the movements that I used can described as kinetics. Kinsetic sense is used in contemporary dance when changing positions and balancing, this communicates with the audience where words and gestures fail. I did not any specific qualities costumes except for tight clothes, which I helped to emphasis my body shape and movements. Energy is the potential for action; changes in dynamics create the, interest and contrast in dance is created through ;the difference speed illustrated by the movements differences in allegro and adaigo, duration which demonstrated through how fast or slow the movements such as my motif were performed, phrasing, phrase shape and dyna

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