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what is this?

a grouping of related movement that have kinaesthetic logic and intuition

Beginning-middle-ending

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- "space can be considered as an active participant, an abstract partner' (Blom & Chaplin, the intimate of choreography)

-"Space is a void"

Level: LOW-MIDDLE-HIGH

Dimensiona: HEIGHT-WIDTH-DEPTH

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"stillness and silence are as strong as any other material, and without them your audience will become exhausted" (burrows, choregrapher's handbook)

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"The space between 2 ppl is an epic point of dramatic tension" (Graham & Gorette)

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abstract instruction

big shape

small shape

high level

low level

smooth movement

circle/spiral/riple movement

ankle shape/sharps/edges

curves pathways

conceptual instruction

moving through water

collapes

hot sand

music concept

=> basic movement/repeat/

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Choosing material by a chance methods is a way of overcoming of human imagination

"Merce Cunningham":

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SONG, MUSIC, PEOPLE DANCING?

"A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble out of the jukebox, there is football on the TV, and the eight men lark around, pint glasses in hand. But their blokish fun is balanced on a knife-edge of tension, for beneath the mateyness lurks a disturbing undercurrent of paranoia and insecurity, where weakness is brutally exploited and violence covers up vulnerability."

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"Jerome Bel - he delights his audience; remembering that performance is st that happen between 2 sets of people: those who do and those who watch"

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The Frantic Method: Creating Choreography

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monologue: a long speech/ dialogue given by one character/actor/dancer

mimetic: literal interpretation (i.e imitating action)

subtextual: information of emotions, or having underlying/ implied meaning, or "unsaid meaning"

juxtaposition: draw attention to the contrast between two things (i.e. text and dance)

don't falling in the trap just dancing to the lyrics without thinking about all the gap, differenent spaces, different aspect of music

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"teaching in not dancing to the music, but to dance the music instead" (Isidore Duran, Moving music)

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TRUST, DYNAMIC CHOREGRAPHY

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The Frantic Method: Building Blocks for Devising

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Following the music, creating choreography based on the music (popular in Ballet)

Simplicity

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"All of me": stimulus

"lose control: background music"

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what is the story about?

Why? How?

=> story need to be coherension

what the main structure/ form?

begin/middle/end??

what type of story? sad/romantic/horror?

what the meanings?

about who? a person (gender?)/a group/a relationship?

what happen to them? struggling/ negative, positive feeling? => hard to express, holding back, not tell anyone.

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a couple/ a romantic relationship

first stage: fall in love

second stage: crazy about love

third stage: lose control cause being possessive, jealousy

fourth stage: the relationship broken.

2 people (main characters), others supporting

=> not working well, we got confused, and keep choreography based on the lyrics "all of me" without understanding of WHY we doing it.

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questions: what do we want our choreography look likes? can we give all the word we think at this moment?

key word: argument, toxic, ruin, negative, fighting, survival, happy, dark, positive.

no-one understanding "couple love"

friendship love/ bestfriend => all understand, easier to express through movement.

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the story structure :

good friends + fighting/arguing because of something + friendship broke.

Why friends fight? what the reasons?

our tutors recommended us to do an activities:

one person do the movement to the other person, and the person repeating movement to the next person, and keep doing it until the final person. And the final person will do the movement, and see what the different?

=> always different move at the end

WHY friends fight? telling the secret to the other friends, and it being extorted.

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CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye

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Group of friends playing "tap game" (recommended by tutors)

stand on one side, one tap the other person, music on, and all run to one side, and lift (high level) + 4 times

3 people standing in the triangle around, 2 people in the middle

3 people doing the stimulus

2 people doing the movement that always stick to each other, not separating ( from the Rosemary sensing activities), and one telling the other the secret. (Henry telling the secret, and Alix knowing the secret)

=> showing good relationship, fun, happy.

all run to the right corner:

shannon/linhkhue/alix: in front

Henry/grabile: behind

=> All doing the stimulus, then standing up.

From the corner, All move to the middle, and standing in line (except Henry):

Each person doing one gymnastic move while moving to the middle

Alix come first, and waving hand

=> showing she has something to share for the other friends

Other joining the line

Henry jump over Grabile, and off stage .

=> Showing that Henry do not know Alix telling others about the secret.

=> How? All the movement was from our favourite gymnastic/physical movement. We listened to music, and just playing around, showing off our special moves. We a ll laughed, and being happy, and cheered each others => decided to choose on of those movement to bring it to the beginning part of choregraphy.

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Adding one "promise gesture" when 2 people in the middle finish movements => small gesture but big impact

All standing in the line (except Henry)

Step, Low turn, and Sit in circle (Grabriel idea)

Lying down, and lift the legs in circle (Alix idea)

Up, and moving forward and doing pinky promise together in the middle of the circle. (Khue idea)

=> Combining all the ideas together, and creating a smooth phrase for this part

HOW? : question to get the ideas.

"what should we do next to make sure the next movement connecting to the previous movement ?"

"do you have any idea/movement? Show me?"

=> keep asking question, each person showing the movement posed up in their mind, and we chose one of these.

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Frantic Ignition Graduates: 10 Companies

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Henry knew the secret had been spreaded out => angry => start of fight.

we want a signal to the fighting part , and showing that Henry is angry, but need to be emphasised, intense, silence

stillness

After doing pinky promise in circle, other stay still, music stop

Henry comes to the middle, doing intense step => angry

Friends looked at him, and we all stay still for 5 counts. => silence

Henry kicks Alix => showing angry

4 people in the circle turn to the right, and standing up

Starting the fight

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reason to fights: A told B secret => B told others => All fighted each others => n ot make sense if we all fight

Only A, and B fighting, others supporting => make sense

But all wants to join the fight

=> Hard to create the movement if we are all not sure "why we do it?"

"Why friends fight?"

keyword: secret, promise, emotion, feeling, long time, leverage

=> Breaking the promise is just one of the reasons friends fighting each others, a group of friends feeling annoying of each others for so long but choosing not to tell and these annoying keep building up inside them and just waiting a moment to "exploding" => time to explode .

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Using the Frantic Assembling method: building blocks for devising

Using "Chance": playing around, do some activities together, and some random movements just popped up, and deciding to use them in the choregraphy.

Ending: all looking at each other and walk away.

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The first part, the triangle => looks quite boring

=> 3 people move to each other position, and do half phrase, run and tap each others and go to the corner => extending the time, more dynamic.

The line part: Standing and waiting for others to go in line => "blank time", boring, need to add some more here to do the smooth transition.

Shannon, and Grabiel changed position in line.

Ending part: all walking away, one stays in the middle with the "pinky promise", no one coming back => friendship broke => sad ending.

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all the friends photos showing on the slide at the end, and all torn apart => showing that friendship broken

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Doing Canon: "pinky promise" in the middle of the circle

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Wearing Panama, and non slippy socks

Concept: group of friends sleeping over together.

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broken friends

broken heart

betrayal

loyalty

promise?

=> "PROMISE?"