By being simple and having small details on our costumes shows how our human identity has been drained from us and we are formatting to this futuristic life where there is no human connection.

For example, the pictures of the sounds patterns could be interpreted as how we move through time. What is the journey of time look like from our perspective as everyone sees the world different.

The idea control and glitching comes to mind with this mood board as the future is not here yet nothing is set in stone, are we leaving in reality or in our ideal imagination? On the surface that idea that everything is perfect everyone dresses cool but under the surface there is a broken down system where human connection is lost and all human emotion is gone…

The idea of playing with more linear and angular lighting and formations conveys how we have lost our human connection through there is no freedom and a constant routine/control through all of us. Making a clear visual for the audience will allow them to absorb our movement choices more making our intention stronger.

The use of shadowing and a siloet will add the idea of we are all clones in the future and the blur behind what actually is the future.

"Relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice." (Oxford languages and google - English, no date)

As a group we decided on the word Dystopian, this is because we are creating our own version/reality of what we think society will look like in the future.

We asked created questions for each of us to answer to help visualise what world we are going to live in...

What will influence us as humans?

Does anything control us?

What trends are set, in the sense of fashion?

How do we connect with one another?

Is technology a big part in the future?

What does the world we live in look like and how does that effect the way we think, act and look?

This helped us to create our mood boards for costumes, makeup, movement, lighting and visualisation of the piece....

-I love how simple the costumes are by using one colour palette and the dancers face being covered. This adds the idea of the mystery behind the dancers leaving the audience to question there everyone movement. By having one dancers face partial seen allows the audience to have one human connection throughout the performance.

-The movement behind the performance has a strong use of alignment and angles within the piece. This creates a strong and powerful presence for the audience to watch making it quite intimidating and mysterious…

This video shows us a story of what it is like to loose ourselves to something and forget who we are alongside all of our human connections. Just letting the music take over links to our idea of the future controlling us loosing our colourful personalities and trading them in for a clone like personality, lost minds and a lost heart.

For Example, looking a fashion trends and what they look like. As trends repeat alongside repeating but slightly different. Questioning what trends have burnt out completely and questioning if they will make a come back in our future yet slightly different.

"In 2050, dynamic shape-shifting garments have become a sensation. Through responsive materials and smart technology, clothing can morph, adjust its silhouette, and even change colors and patterns based on external stimuli or individual preferences." Fahri, Karakas.(2021)

As a group, we exploring this idea through our costume ideas. Linking back to our idea of seeing the future through our perceptive as it allows us to have creative flow with our ideas as its what we think the future will look like. We are exploring this through our mood boards.

We came up with the concept with the questions, what the future will look like and how does that impact us as humans? In mind when thinking our our story arc.

The idea of that AI has control over us to the point we all act, speak, think and move the same. Except there is our protagonist how still has a conscious of what human connection is like and how we can think for ourselves. The protagonist breaks off and one-by-one the other dancers start to follow and explore this 'different' way of living, but then by the end the other dancers turn back to their 'normal' ways and our protagonist is back where they stared trapped in this new AI way of living....

We have decided to use a narrative and rondo structure for this section, as it highlights how AI has took over and that there is a little human connection left in the future but the rondo emphasises that there is no escape to the new way of living.

Here is a suggestion of music. I found this song and felt there is a repetition of the same phrase of beats throughout with interruptions of other phrases of beats. The song uses no lyrics and just focuses on clear beats.

Personally, this song emphasises of being in the same cycle yet the phases that interrupt that structure shows the idea that human connection is still alive and wants to fight back.

This song has a strong hip hop, The style is a very expressive and free style no need to look like anyone else as everyone over different. As hip hop is a culture creating a community and a safe space for everyone from all walks of life on the street. Which links to our intention to this section.

The repetition can be a contextual reference as for people who has been around a broken Tv is aware of this noise and puts a strong visual and emotional picture in their head of when a tv is broken and the frustration it brings with it.

This allows us to grow a greater understanding our piece, therefore we can create movement with a purpose and as dancers perform the piece as authentic as when can to our stimulus.

This adds layers to our piece and our creative thinking as performers, while creating our visual representations so we can follow and stick along to add our plan

We thought this would highlight our concept of breaking free and not being absorbed into the way the future is structured with technology.

By planning formations allows us to figure our transitions as well hopefully making our rehearsal slots smoother and clam for everyone as we are planned ahead.

-Todays session was a very productive session. We started the session with having our usual group chat (that we have at start of every session) to make sure our comunication with everyone is strong and no one is feeling left-out, confused or lost in what we are doing. We decided to do the first 45 mins working on music, theory, and choreographing our sections, we do this by splitting into smaller groups and then just check in with everyone is ok with decisions if not them we reevaluate until we have came up with a solution.

-In the first 45 mins me and Jessie started to refine and add on to our section (which is concept of technology in the future) we was adding to the end of the section, we started to play wit different timings within the music and see what that would look like to work with different polyrhyms and textures. We managed to create a strong 5 counts of 8 of choreography which we are going to teach and then mix up and play when everyone has the base layer.

-In the last 45mins, Hannah started to teach her section to us all and the we all together started to work collaboratively to play with formations and transitions within the Hannahs sections, but letting Hannah have the final say so it still matches what she envisioned but with some of hints of the rest of us.

-The goal for next session is too clean and refine this section and learn another section.

-Todays session I personally struggled in, as the aim of the session was to finish all smaller sections such as duets trios and solos and the people who was not involved with any of them to work on the theory side and music for the piece. However, the trio decided they didn’t want it to be a trio and changed it to a group piece alongside changing there them without discussing it as a group. This made me confused as I couldn’t see/understand how this would fit into our storyline as feminism was not a concept we discussed or explored as a group. As the point of the trio was to pull Eve into the future through showing how indivuduals have more power over others. However, as a dancer I had to do my job and learn the choreography and not challenge the choreographer of the section in this case and I don’t think I would be able to contribute anything helpful as I was still trying to make this make sense in my head.

-To build on this, before the next session I plan to figure out how feminism fits into our perception of the future alongside building a map just for me to grow my understanding of the piece allowing me to develop my character within the piece and this section in particular.

We decided to have the order of fashion, Power, Human connection, Feminism and technologly.

However human Connection will be dotted throughout the piece, with Melle and Eve being our two main protagonists, with Eve looking for the human connection and Melle being that human connection. Then we have Ollie who is our Antagonist who is the person in charge of the future and is playing mind games on Eve when at the end of the piece it is revealed that Melle is a form of AI Ollie was using to show Eve who is uncharge of the future.

Our structure has changed as instead of using a narrative we are going to play with the concept of what the future will look like with different society themes. This allows us to set the theme of the future before our human connection journey begins in our piece. Allowing us to set the tone and picture for the audience at the very start.

-Ideas we came up in todays session was the idea that we have the repetition of a whistling noise throughout to show Ollie’s power and control in the future, with eve being that hint of a rebellion and curious behaviour which goes on behind Ollies back. This takes inspiration from the books/movies the hunger games, being in that structured, lifeless, and militant world yet there is people who have heard of the past and want to explore what that is.

-For lighting, I have been put in charge of this therefore I have started looking Into different key words and trying to educate my self on terminology. An Idea that I expressed at some point in the dance we could have eve wondering around on stage and in the background have Melle upstage right or left in spotlight, watching and learning about Eve to get her to understand the ‘human’ connection between them. Then at the end to have Melle and Eve In the centre in a spotlight, Movement wise Eve trying to hug Melle then Melle is glitching away showing her true identity of AI while Ollie is upstage right or left in another spotlight controlling Melle and basically saying he has won this game that he has been playing. Now eve is stuck in this reality of the future she does not want to be in. Linking back to our originally Idea that in the future there is no human connection and our minds have been sacrificed to AI and the new way of living.

By having our main storyline with the little story lines on the sides allows us to explore the idea of having the audience own perceptive on the piece, linking to our ordinal concept of non of us know what the future is like but we all have are own idea of what it could be like. This allows us to add layers through our movement, structure, creative play and character building. As we have worked on learning how to set a scene through movement with our direction changes, formations, focuses and positioning of the body which has helped us to build a strong vision in our minds which relays our to the audience. Overall, I am happy with my group as we are all listening and open to each others creative minds.

Within this section we have reconstructed the idea of feminism within our narrative and our setting of the piece. As instead of focusing on society themes we have used them to influence our movement without the peice, as this helps us build the idea of what our future will look like.

We have used Tyler the creator within our peice twice this shows repetition within our music choices, as we feel Tyler creates strong constant beats however they make you want to be free linking to our rebellion as this is when we start to form the freedom in our narrative.

Before the show run, as a group we ran and cleaned parts of a piece which as a collective we was unsure on and felt that was messy, this helped bring the groups confidence up. Also, we had a group chat as well of what we want out of this performance, through setting small goals to hit, so not putting too much pressure on ourselves to over perform.

In the structure of the run, we are closing the show therefore before the our piece we made sure we went out side and had a team talk alongside just warming our bodies up to prevent injury.

Overall, I feel it went very well and was comfortable to perform as the audience was very supportive and gave us energy. As a groups we felt in-sync. However, we need to work on our personal transitions between formations.

As a group we decided that I would take this lead of this characterisation through my freestyle, as them break outs show freedom and expression which is the opposite to what Olivers' power represents which is militant and conformed.

So in progress to this session I need to start personally working on concepts and playing with music to see how I react and how I can develop my character through the freestyle.

The freestyle concepts I want to play with are...

-Magnets

-throwing objects on a table and pulling them back

-the idea of building and breaking down

-there is one brick and all the brick wants to do is be a building.

These freestyle concepts are vague and weird but allow me to expand my movement in different ways through loosing my focus and directional changes.

However, before this session me an eve was listening to range of music genres such as, pop, hip-hop, punk and electric pop. We landed on a slow hip-hop song by Tyler The Creator, as it has slow lyrics we strong beats in the background. Creating that heavy Mysterious feel to it, as we are now starting to form the rebellion as we are getting stronger leading up to the end section.

We had the idea of playing with the idea of building a wall and connecting our heads like what Melle and Eve did in their duet. The repletion of movement allows the audience to understand what we are trying to convey which is human connection.

As I break through underneath it shows how we are trying to break through this world of no control.

As the trio moves on me and eve define our connection through use of call and response and manipulation to then finding melle who then joins us.

This was a really easy session as us three worked very well and played with different ideas and each others ideas, allowing us to grow an understanding of each others movement qualities and creative brains.

As a three we choreographed this through structured freestyle and using it to turn into choreography. So when performing it felt free yet strong. Linking to our intention for the trio.

Personally I think we just need to keep rehearsing it and listening to the music so we get use to all the beats and timing.

With lighting I want to use spotlights and washes to create an mix of open and closed spaces within the movement, to highlight Ollie’s power over the future as there is no escape however when human connection is mentioned the lighting opens up meaning Ollie has lost control and the human connection between Melle and Eve is getting stronger. I feel this will help to convey our narrative through the support of the lighting.

This creative table helps to create a visual representation of our narrative in a clear and structured format. Helping us as group to have something to look at when we are lost or confused and if we are stuck for movement or narrative creating. By having it as a working document allows us to have freedom and control over what we want as a group.

Before, creating this new brief I was a tad confused on our new idea of a ‘Dystopian Future’ but by doing this has helped me to understand our new narrative alongside allowing me to add more creative ideas such as adding the idea instead of one storyline lets make it more cinematic with a movie flow. Personally, I have took inspiration from blade runner, maze runner and Hunger games which are all set in this idea of what the future is going to look like. This table allows me to create that feel through personally mapping out lighting and taking away costumes.

Now we are doing all in white with Ollie in all black to show the power shift in the narrative. Alongside having use all in white but different versions of white and accessories. With the restrictions of lighting, we have no spotlights so I need to think about how we are going to connect lighting to the narrative through maybe use of different colours and washes.

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world." from Paul Lynde." Longmangroup.,(2015)

This quote helped me to not overthink lighting, as I was stressed about being in charge but with research and guidance off my group it helped me to visualise and choose what we wanted.

After re thinking lighting, I decided to break up all the sections and listen to the music (with eve who is in charge of the audio choices) together we worked on what colour scheme would work with what section and when the change over would happen. We decided to play with a range of colours matching to our societal themes which we have buried throughout and what colours stem from them, For example, for the duet and trio establishing human connection and a rebellion we have chosen more warm tones like yellow, sunset and sunrise, this allows the audience to have some sort of connection with the feeling of being connected. As these colours have the connotations of warmth, connection, freedom, and peace which is the concept behind our rebellion being free away from this clinical future we have created in our minds. Linking to society now with the idea that AI will take over but non of us know what this looks like.

With the time stamps, we have made the changes and fades on non expected parts of the music to help keep the audience engaged and focused so they don’t miss anything. Without the idea of the lighting being overwhelming and distracting we have went with a simplistic yet effective thought process to this by listening to the music over and over, alongside debating with each others ideas. By constantly asking why, made us really try and connect our lighting to our narrative so should flow with music and narrative as well. By debating shows as a group we have respect and an mature outlook on our ideas and other ideas.

This section is about everyone joining the rebellion without Ollie knowing. So as a group we took inspiration for the style house dance as we felt the style is very uplifting and is usually on the upbeat in the music. So this section is show happiness through us being together and generally enjoying ourselves in our narrative and together as dancers. This adds an up beat feel in comparison to the rest of the dance.

With Melle taking lead on costumes I requested that I wore trousers due to my movement choices within the piece especially in my freestyle, and I felt it fit more with the idea of me representing a rebellion that I don't necessary look feminine or masculine just slightly different from everyone else.

The photo resembles our final look on show day which worked really well with lighting and it delivered our intention across to the audience. As it had that glamorous feel linking to our ordinal brief of Paris Goebels runway fashion. Alongside, that unknown feel of what we don't know what the future is so by having the hoods and gems on our face enhances that we are hiding behind something but no one knows what that is.

Our plan

1. plot spacing

2. work through transitions

3. work on entrance and exsit

This allowed us to be efficient as then we had time left over to go over movement on stage. Overall, personally the tech run went smooth and enjoyable.

As for me freestyles I felt strong in them, for the show I wanted to be able to control my adrenaline and really focus on what movement I am trying to convey in this piece.

Appendix 1- Costume and Make-up

Appendix 2- Movement concept

Appendix 3- Lighting

Appendix 4- Name of piece

Appendix 5- Yasmin Dancers Delight

Appendix 6- Mondonna Vogue inspiration

Appendix 7- FKA Twigs- Eusexua

Appendix 8- Structuring of the piece

Appendix 9- Music and Audio

Appendix 10- Choreographic Techniques

Appendix 11- Technology Section

Appendix 12- Feminism Section

Appendix 13- Trio section

Appendix 14- setting the scene

Appendix 15- show runs

Appendix 16- house section

Appendix 17- tech run

Appendix 18- Creative Brief (Dystopian)

Solo work

Appendix 19- Initial Ideas

Appendix 20- Initial MindMaps

Appendix 21- Creative Brief

Appendix 22- planned timetable

Appendix 23- Camera Trials

Appendix 24- Filming

Appendix 25- Choreography

Appendix 26- choreographic mapping

Appendix 27- costume

Appendix 28- Scratch Night

Appendix 29- Hellen Keller

Appendix 30- Crystals of petite

Appendix 31- Final Video

Appendix 32

My creative process is creating posters of words drawings that come to mind straight away. This lead my mind to dump off random words that came to mind without me over thinking them.

I drew cards, clouds, a train, angel wings, number 7, CD and headphones highlighting the journey I am on or want to be on and then how music is escape to get away from my new reality. Angel wings wings and the 7 in a remembrance to the person I lost.

I added juxtaposing words onto the paper or opposite words to the paper. Emphasising how everyone has a different perceptive and opinion on life matters, people, but dance as well. Personally I feel this is how I want my video to come across such as something so simple of a train journey and how it can mean so much more. I find it fascinating how a a bunch of strangers are all on a journey to the same place but for all different reasons coming back to you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. In the video the video could connect to people in all different ways like grief effects people in all different ways as its the loss you have faced its how handle and grow with it. Keeping the person you have lost soul alive alongside re-building and growing your soul from the biggest impact you have faced.

For example, sayings that have helped me breathe when feeling suffocated by my grief is…

“Seeing the world through a different lens”- in the sense that how I saw the world before my loss is completely different to how I see it now.

“Dealt a shitty deck of cards”- In the sense this is what I have been given to deal with in life and I have got to learn to play with these cards that I didn’t nessaccary want but you have got ti the best with what you have.

This lead onto the journey of the soul (Elizabeth, Lewis.(no date) which has five stages like the stages of grief. After research I found that these two link together and that your soul grows and changes through the grief you face. This inspired me to focus in on the journey instead of the emotions leading it to be up for interpretation. As I want the video to highlight my journey that I am on which is confusing full of highs lows, joy and sadness. By using the idea of having a journey on a train going somewhere (don’t know where) but it just me being me with my headphones on but it being like the camera being observant of me. Showing the idea of being present and distant at the same time.

Elizabeth, Lewis.(no date), The 5 Stages of the Soul and Grief Processing, Available at URL: https://www.rememberingalife.com/blogs/blog/the-5-stages-of-the-soul-and-grief-processing Accessed (17th January 2025)

So I played with the idea of what people use a park bench for so I:

Sat on it

Stood by/on it

Tied my shoe

Sat/stood by it

‘Fell asleep’ on the bench

This allowed me to get different shots and let my mind think of ways I could use the bench in the sense of dancing so I free-styled on the bench to create some movement I could turn into choreography.

Later on I put the videos into a shot edit to now se what pattern I want to follow when shooting my actual concept

Location, when we arrived at location we was concerned if the camera was going to be able to stand up on the grass as it had been raining. So we was debating leaving the location we was at to then find another bench with more security for the camera. However, this backfired as we got lost within the park then when we found the second location, but it wasn't giving sonder energy and people was sitting on the bench therefore we had to head back to the other location which pushed us for time.

Movement challanges was choreography I had planned to to do on the bench I struggled to do as the Bench was very high up and narrow so had to think on the spot and adapt what I was doing, so make it safe and look natural rather then cautious.

Alongside, I felt myself when filming linking back more to the idea of sonder and having less chunks of ankers rather have one big anker at the beginning then 2 random clips at the end to start to break away from the dancing and bringing back to the sonder character sitting on the bench.

At first I used freestyle to find ways to move on the sofa to work into choreography as this way it allows me to feel comfortable within was I am doing instead of being forced into it. Linking back to the concept of sonder.

"Map choreography is an excellent method for unraveling complex maps and guiding readers through them step by step" (Thomas, 2023)

I used choreographic mapping as a way to plan my thoughts and feelings out throughout the peice as I found it hard to visualise it without having actual visualisation. Therefore I used post it notes and colour co-ordination to bring my plan/ideas to life. As then it helped me keep clam and clear minded when it came to pre planning.

So when listening to different songs I still wanted to keep the coffee shop music Idea in the background, however wanted a more modern feeling in terms of more beats and flow when dancing. This lead me to find 'floating' by raven and hope tala, in the song she is talking about a connection with a person she has interest in, which links to one of my intensions of being on a park bench.

Now I have switched my song, I have chosen to go with a bright yet comfortable clothing what people can relate to in the sense it is more casual rather than business. I have chosen to go with a bright dark blue jumper and washed out light blue jeans, as it is something I am comfortable to dance in and I feel it is very casual and chill for a day at the park.

This has helped me to plan out a visual joinery of how I want to travel through the soul-searching alongside having the feeling of sonder throughout.

Personally, I was left inspired after hearing everyone's ideas as it made me think about mine in the sense of playing with the idea of 'sonder' and how it follows and links with my ordingial concept.

"Sonder is the feeling you get when you look at another person and realise that they too have a story as complicated and unique as your own, but unfortunately not even the feeling of sonder can truly help you to grasp the size of that statement." (InThirdPerson, 2024)

This helped me link this to the idea of soul searching and human nature, everyone feels the same emotions just expressed in different ways, that the feeling of being alone is not the case as it is human nature to feel that way.

However, the scratch night made me think about my song as I feel a song with a narrative may help convey the ideas of how the park bench can convey any story but with my character the audience don't know why I am there or my purpose leading them to create their perception of the bench and the purpose of the bench.

I found this intresting as I was dancing and directing at the same time, it took a while to figure out where the camera should be, and how to use the camera to enhance the movement quality.

The concept behind this quote highlights the emotional and spiritual connection that waves throughout life, as an emotional/spiritual will always be there even when the material has gone. (Quotes to Inspire, 2023)

This inspired me to think of park bench as I have a personal emotional/spirtual connection to the park and the beaches I sit on, Its a place where I can feel connected to the earth, calm my mind and remember all the beautiful times I have had with people. That is what help me to set on my location and the purpose of the location.

Personally, I found this quite inspiring for camera angles as I wasn't sure on what ways I can use the camera as I wanted the park bench to be the focus not the nature around it. Therefore, this videos helped expand my mind into different pools of how to use a camera which led me on to creating camera trials with different acting, motifs.

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Fahri, Karakas.(2021)2050 Fashion Forecast: Prepare To Be Blown Away by These Mind-Boggling Trends Available at Url: https://medium.com/predict/2050-fashion-forecast-prepare-to-be-blown-away-by-these-mind-boggling-trends-e131fecd895b#:~:text=In%202050%2C%20dynamic%20shape%2Dshifting,external%20stimuli%20or%20individual%20preferences.Accessed(10the December 2024)

FKA twigs, (2024) FKA twigs- Eusexua. Available at; https://youtu.be/KnGSVIZGkQo?si=1E0qMBAcpy1R3Kgg(Accessed 10^th December 2024).

FKA twigs, (2025) FKA twigs- Drums of Death (Choreography glitch). Available at: https://youtu.be/8PDiORfADeQ?si=lFAjPbntPGpUfpX8  (Accessed 1^st February 2025).

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 Madonna., (2010) Madonna - Vogue (Live at the MTV Awards 1990) [Official Video]. Available at: https://youtu.be/lTaXtWWR16A?si=5CIiTXBJGftGmEgi  (Accessed 10^th December 2024).

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Thomas, C. (2023). Choreograph your maps with ArcGIS StoryMaps. [online] ArcGIS Blog. Available at: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-storymaps/mapping/choreograph-your-maps-with-arcgis-storymaps[Accessed 2 Apr. 2025].