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Contemporary- Nothing Else Matters(Drug Addiction Dance). (2020). [image] Available at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_3ioQLY7s [Accessed 8 Jan. 2020].

We found inspiration for the idea of our piece from this video when researching the effects of drugs.

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Honest information about drugs | FRANK. 2020. Honest information about drugs | FRANK. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.talktofrank.com. [Accessed 9 January 2020].

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We named our piece 'Talk to frank' as it is a website giving advice on recreational drugs and this is what our piece is based on. We used this website for our research into drugs and to help get the feeling of what it would actually be like to be under those circumstances to put towards our performance for the assessment.

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BBC THREE (2018). The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I-95 – Two Years On. [image] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsaWpeCj98 [Accessed 5 Nov. 2019].

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When we first did this, we all did it facing the front doing the same movement, however we developed this into us all facing different ways too make it look more frantic to show the effect of the drug more. This is show in source 3h

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The first lesson we made this motif and developed it as shown in source 3d

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Kenzie’s motif that we developed and adapted into cannon.

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Malou Linders (2020). "SEXY LADIES” Justin Timberlake | Choreography by Christin Olesen & Malou Linders. [image] Available at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuCLtgjBP0 [Accessed 29 Dec. 2020].

I spoke about the influence of Christin Olesen on our piece throughout my essay.

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Jasmines partner section that showed the obvious theme depression.

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Tyler created this motif that we later adapted and  developed, shown in source 4f

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We completed the ending by adding in this small phrase of choreography

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We thought the solos that we originally had at the start of this section was pointless and we found it hard to show our depression within them, so instead we created this group freestyle to show us In need of each other

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This was the rehearsal the night before the assessment, we weren’t happy with the roll into the line so we added this in, inspired by Ryan Heffington’s hand gestures.

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We developed this section by adding Kenzie and Tyler (the boys) and changing the way we go to add affect for the audience

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This was the sexual desire section. The 3 in the triangle are the girls and the 2 at the back are the boys. Later on in the process we did decide to develop this so the boys interacted with the girls more to make the difference between us more distinct as shown in source 2d

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We adapted the original choreography to this to have more interaction with the boys.

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We added in a duet with me and saffron at the start of the section to show that we were both the ones that felt this effect more than the rest

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I developed my solo and choreographed it to represent the sexual desire section the best I could. I freestyled my solo at the dress run and after watching the video back I realised it didn’t represent the sexual desires and was just me dancing with no meaning

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This shows how in the dress run, before the assessment, we didn’t represent the sexual desire feeling as much in the dress run as we did in the actual thing so we had a last minute rehearsal the night before the assessment to change this. Where we added in mine and saffron’s duet.

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This was the first time we met up together, we worked on the opening and thought about trying to having a character each and about how each one of our characters would act throughout the piece. In our intro we used a simple cannon and pedestrianised movement to portray the characters we were playing,

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This was the original motif I choreographed at home for the intro, as a group we worked on and developed this, we added a circular formation and adapted and developed some of the choreography to make the piece flow more.

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This rehearsal we thought about the story of the piece and realised at no point is there actually any indication that we have taken the drug, and after chads feedback of being more literal, we thought we should add in a part where Tyler metaphorically throws us the drug for us to take.
Me, Jasmine and Tyler also made our section of choreography in another rehearsal but we have no footage of that. We tried to make this part a bit different to what we had been doing in the rest of the piece, as everything was mainly just stood up and not really using the floor or any technical element so we thought we should add this in.

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I choreographed the part of this section we had left to choreograph before this rehearsal, however, this section probably was the one that didn’t change the most from the first rehearsal.

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When we found out we were doing it studio 8, the first thing we thought about was the pillars, we took the time to go and stage our piece with the pillars and audience in mind as this could effect formations in our piece.

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The night before the assessment, we decided to add in a bit more movement in a part we didn’t feel looked good on the video we got back from the dress run. We added In small intricate movement inspired from Ainsley Rickets (Ricketts, 2019) that uses pedestrianised movement to express a story. We added this in to try and show how much control a drug can have over a person under the influence, hence us all controlling Kenzie. We also added in more dynamics on the walk around and had some people going faster than some slower as we felt it needed to be more normal, rather than us all just going at the same pace which we wouldn’t do in normal life.

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we originally started off with this choreography for the depression section which was further developed as shown on source 4f.The meaning behind the choreography was that all the anxiety and stress and all the different emotions building up and resulting in depression, shown when we do the partner work after.

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Development

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This clip is from the dress run.

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Ricketts, A. (2020). Rationale - Somewhere To Belong | Ainsley Ricketts Choreography. [image] Available at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKA4Ya227O0 [Accessed 4 Jan. 2020].

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKA4Ya227O0

Through out the piece I used inspiration from Ainsley Ricketts and this video in particular for the amount of minimal, pedestrianised movement in it.