Working in a creative project with a big group has its challenges: working habits, having the platform that everyone can share their ideas, different group dynamics, etc. In my opinion, we have set a working space for us that worked so we could create. We were feeling really confident before presenting what we had come up with to Eva. However, when some ideas got through and chosen to be developed, some were left behind. That created an air of confusion in us on what should and shouldn't be included in the piece. We were definitely questioning our taste in creating material. At the time, personally I didn't understand why some of our ideas weren't selected to develop.

In the first term, I really struggled to understand the tasks in composition classes. We were being introduced to the "Labanotation". As I never created a full piece on my own before, it was very difficult. 

It was only after I had choreological studies and form&sturcture I started seeing the logic behind the tasks. Having choreological studies alongside composition really enhanced my learning and understanding of how to bring a dance to life.

When we were given the task, I felt really inspired to embody a landscape. It made the whole process much more interesting to me. Me and my friends decided to invest into that idea. In the video you can see us creating a landscape from our bodies. Instead of looking at the form&structure classes just as tasks, I started seeing them and thinking "How this would work in a piece? What does this inspire in me? Which feelings does it evoke in me?"

The classes of unit two really helped me expand and challenge my creativity. I have discovered my ways of understanding choreographing a dance. I also had the chance to work in other ways that helped me get out of my comfort zone and expanded my "creative tool kit". I had the opportunity to experience vast ways of working and creating.

We decided that we would use the sound of the dripping parfum from the exhibition (The installation ‘Beauty Sensorium’ by Renaissance Goo x Baum & Leahy, no date) as our sound. We used beauty products as our props and to create movement. My chosen item was a shaving razor, to give an image that I was shaving my legs. I decided to add more distorted shapes into my dance to portrait the different uncomfortable positions people get into to shave. I observed myself shaving my legs and I took some pictures to put them in exploration.

Recacha, "FINAL FORM AND STRUCTURE TASK", Google classroom, 14 May 2024

-Samuel Beckett

-Athina Valha