Blog Post Twelve - Evaluation

I feel the process of creating this solo has been a challenging but rewarding experience. I really enjoy being creative and exploring different choreographic ways of communicating a message to an audience, and I feel I was really able to perform the emotions I was aiming to portray and communicate the themes of the piece. During the performance I felt really confident in the movement, however something I found quite challenging was moving my body in a way I wouldn't have thought to without exploring different practitioners and techniques. For instance some of the movements inspired by Akram Khan I had incorporated into my choreography I found challenging as I had to change the direction of movement quite frequently. However by the time it came to performing the solo the movement began to feel really natural to me. Usually when creating movement for fun or in improvisation explored in contemporary or jazz I like to move in a way that feels good for my body and base my movement on the style of the music. However within the process of making this solo I found it interesting using techniques that challenged me to create movement that not necessarily felt right but was different and interesting and also sometimes worked against the musical phrasing instead of being influenced by it. I feel the performance and journey of creating the solo was successful and I was really pleased with the final outcome.

Next time, if I was to repeat the same task with the same stimulus I would look more at pathways of the choreography, as when working in class I was confined to quite a small space and pathways of travelling wasn't something I was consciously thinking about the whole time I was creating movement. Therefore I would have liked to look into a bit more depth about pathways of travel and direction of the body in relation to the audience and exploring how this could help contribute the the message of the themes I was trying to communicate.