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Now is the exciting part of being able to expand on my CP2 project for future projects and my major practical project.

I have written out my developing theory and it is attached below - it is still rough but I am excited to become more confident with it and expand on it in the future.

This project has been incredibly eye opening and has allowed me to flourish in something that I love and I look forward to greater these experiences and make new ones.

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Rehearsal footage with Yingying Li

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Findings and reflections from the 3 rehearsals 

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Findings and reflections from the 3 rehearsals 

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The assessment ran smoothly and I am happy with how it went

I had various stations and projections of videos playing that audience members enjoyed reading and viewing

I loved the live aspect within my showcase and how audience members could join in and carry on with my explorations

Rachel and Evelyn gave really intriguing new ways and stimuli to play with when creating movement

We explored the concept of removing sight and channeling how it feels to move with only hearing the direction

Both Ev, Rachel and even myself gave being the dancer a try and having our eyes closed whilst listening to instructions, it opened up to me new ways to explore that I haven't thought of yet and know there is so much more for me to explore within this in the future.

Taking away sight helped create more raw movement and took less thinking which meant the dancer wasn't overthinking, which during the rehearsals I feel like you could see in their movement.

I now have questions and new ideas to take away with me from these explorations with my audience members

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Finding my own technique to capture short moments of beautiful camera and dancer dynamics and coming together, breaking the barrier between the two 

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Finding my own technique to capture short moments of beautiful camera and dancer dynamics and coming together, breaking the barrier between the two 

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07/03/24 lecture - reviewing where we are at with our projects 

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07/03/24 lecture - reviewing where we are at with our projects 

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This lecture was another eye-opening moment for me that solidified I was confident with what I was researching, doing and creating for CP2

Explaining and showing the videos I captured with Yingying Li and then hearing the feedback and praise from Ev and the other dancers was lovely, it was exciting to realise that I was creating something that felt new and developmental.

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14/03/24 - Final lecture before assessment day 

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14/03/24 - Final lecture before assessment day 

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During this lecture I gave an update on how my rehearsals had gone and that all I had left to do was correctly lay out my theory that guided me throughout my CP2 which was Graham Wallas' creative thinking method as my framework and semiotics as a framework for communication

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This final rehearsal was a nice clarification on where I was at and solidified pros and cons within my developing technique

I also refer in more detail about my findings and reflections with Talisha in the PDF shared with Yingying Li and Rachel.

This final rehearsal lead me nicely into assessment week. I had enough findings and reflections to show and knew that I still had space to explore and develop my technique and assessment day and days after will allow for this.

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Different from my rehearsal with Yingying was that I was working with Rachel - a dancer I have worked constantly with before so we are more comfortable with each other and how we both move and work.

It was interesting to see how my technique worked with Rachel, it was easier to have a more open conversation about the pros and cons we both found during the rehearsal

Rachel found it hard to communicate through creating gestures for me and she found it easy to generate new movement when I was directing her

Again, there is more about our experiences in the reflections and findings PDF

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This rehearsal was more of a trial run for myself to see how trying out my technique on another dancer will work

It was a successful experiment, we tried various ways to cater for making sure the relationship and dynamics between the dancer and camera were working and improving - by this I mean I would ask for feedback from Yingying Li on how it felt to create the gestures and if the next video experiment needed slower movement or not etc...

I have written a findings and reflections from each experiment with my 3 different dancers that goes into more detail about our experiences.

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Graham Wallas' creative thinking method as my critical framework

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Graham Wallas' creative thinking method as my critical framework

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21st February views on my CP2 assessment 

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21st February views on my CP2 assessment 

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My 21st Feb plans for my assessment layout is that it will take place in the black box

Because I predict that I will be making at least 6 different videos (I could possibly make 12 videos, due to being unsure if I should explore both in the studio and on site)

To present these videos I will hire the projectors and project the clips onto the walls of the black box.

This use of projecting the clips onto the walls looked amazing and worked really well in my CP1 assessment, however this time I may lay them out differently as I only used one side of the room to project my findings in my CP1 assessment, this time I may use both sides - dependant on how many videos I create.

Also, I want to add an extra live factor this time during the assessment, something I didn't do for CP1. Watching the findings from this research is great, however I think it would also be beneficial for people to see myself, the camera and a volunteer mover in the space live practicing the research.

This live aspect with help deepen my research and findings for viewers as they also get to experience it themselves and not just through my words and reflections.

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19/2/24 lecture with Ev on the layout of the assessment for CP2

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19/2/24 lecture with Ev on the layout of the assessment for CP2

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Thankfully this lecture with Ev helped me find exactly what I was missing - the theory side. In the 2 attached boxes are the frameworks I used to help guide my research. Wallas' creative thinking theory and semiotics.

We were given the idea to work backwards from CP2 assessment day and this generated ideas on how we are going to present our findings so this helped to fill in the gaps of what we need to do to get there and be ready for assessment day

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Mainly focusing on my research methods essay and keeping up with CP2 documentation for now 

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Mainly focusing on my research methods essay and keeping up with CP2 documentation for now 

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Around assessment due date for the research methods essay it has been full steam ahead with writing my essay.

When the essay begins to get too much I have a break by making sure i'm kept up to date with my documentation process of my research and practical work for CP2

Due to mainly focusing on my essay I feel I am behind on finding the theory to support my practice. I am confident on what and how I will research but I need to find a supporting framework and practitioners to help guide my CP2 project

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6/2/24 I arranged a tutorial with Ev as I knew my idea for CP2 was there I just needed to speak about it and clarify exactly what was best to look at and research for now

After a short brain/mouth explosion where I just told Ev everything, she managed to help me untangle the mess and I finally set myself a nice path to explore and knew exactly what it was I was going to research, do and have ready for the assessment day on March 21st.

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Knowing my idea for my major practical project

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Knowing my idea for my major practical project

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After coming to the realisation of what I wanted to explore for CP2 we were quickly thrown into the deep end and were asked to present our ideas for our major practical project in a lecture.

Luckily the day before this lecture I had found an essay by Maya Dass Reddy, 2022, critically analysing 'How Screendance Embraces What Cannot Be Done on Stage' and in her introduction paragraph she mentioned how the term 'screen dance' is such a broad definition that scales from a video recorded off a shaky Iphone of a dance to a well thought out piece choreographed for the camera that has been dramatically edited with effects and transitions.

This stood out to me and made me question, why is it such a broad term? can I explore all aspects of what is screendance?

Then during the lecture I presented the idea of exploring this broad term for myself and exhibiting my findings

Due to knowing what big explorations I wanted to undertake for my MPP made it hard for me to scale it back down and find something to look at for CP2 that could feed nicely into MPP. Things I thought of just felt like a pathetic attempt at my MPP, for example just exploring two different types of dancing on the screen - something that's just been recorded and captured vs something thats being heavily edited.

If only there was someone who was incredible at understanding me and helping me define what it is I could research....

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Receiving a high mark for my CP1 project solidified my choice to not steer away from doing something I am confident in and love

I was at University supporting a lecture during the time of receiving and opening my results. My 40 minute walk home consisted of brain storming ideas and I thought back to Eli's lecture and the discussion that happened at the end about screen dance and documentation and I knew that my next step was to find research and inspiration into this.

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Eli's lecture on dance and documentation

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Eli's lecture on dance and documentation

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18/1/24 we had a lecture with Eli on dance and documentation where she presented many analysed points on different ways to document dance

We then procceded to practically explore for ourselves documenting dance. Half of the group would improvise in the space whilst the other half would capture what they saw/felt about the dance through drawing. We then swapped so both groups could have a go at documenting

I found this such a beautiful way to document dance and choreograph - It's a never ending dance in my eyes. Constantly being inspired by drawn movement that was taken from live movement

We then started a discussion about other ways to document dance and I began to speak about how I have always captured and documented movement and feelings through the camera however documenting feelings is very subjective to the person who felt those feelings during the time of recording but with movement not so much.

This discussion made me question if this is something interesting that I could explore.... screendance and documentation...

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My (you definitely can't call it a pitch) pitch!

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My (you definitely can't call it a pitch) pitch!

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I made this powerpoint in under 2 hours. I think this proved to myself that I wasn't fuelled with excitement or motivation but I had to present this pitch that afternoon so I had no choice but to keep going with the same idea

I hoped for some feedback after the pitch on my ideas, however that's not what the pitches were for and my ideas were too sparse for any clarification

I left this lecture still feeling unsure on my ideas and after watching each others pitches and seeing some strong confidence ones it gave me some motivation to figure out what route I go down

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Due to not knowing where to start with exploring an immersive/interactive dance route I felt so lost

I mainly felt sad that I felt lost, with screen dance i've always felt so confident and generating ideas isn't scary, if anything it is purely fun and creative. I think I knew deep down that I shouldn't feel this way and that I should change my exploration ideas but I still had that voice in my head that told me I shouldn't do screen dance.

Up coming quite quickly was my pitch for CP2 and I started to find inspirations of what other artists had to say about interactive/immersive dance and find inspirations from actual performances

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It had just been my CP1 assessment and creative futures.... I knew I now needed to start to think of ideas for CP2 so that I wouldn't be stressed when we came back on the 3rd January

First inspiration came from attending Noel Jenkins digital dance talk on 5th December where he showed us and allowed us to explore the interaction between sound and dancer through the program Isadora

Next thoughts and inspirations came from finishing my Q&A from the CP1 assessment. I was asked by Ev where I will take my work next. In that moment I knew and said how I wish to use sound in CP2, as I didn't use it at all during CP1.

It felt like it was meant to be that I wanted to explore sound and that I had just been to Noel Jenkins talk that was all about body interaction through camera and generating sound

I thought steering away from screen dance and exploring an element of either interactive or immersive dance and sound would be a good next step.

It was out of my comfort zone

It was something new

I was afraid of coming out of my masters degree and saying I only made 3 different screen dances

I made myself believe i had nothing else to research within that area

This is where I hit my first wall... (and the module hadn't even started!)