Choreographic Journal
Week 1: 7th January
This was the first week of our creative journal and this time I was adamant that I want to choreograph a contemporary piece as I wanted to show my versatality as well as challenge myself.
For this piece, the song I chose was 'Dreamss on Fire' (Slumdog Millionaire) and I was very clear about the dancers I wanted to use to perform this piece.
Once I chose my song, I began choreographing and completed choreographing about 30 seconds of the piece which was a good place to be in the very first week of the project according to me.
Week 2: 14th January
This week I continued working on my choreography and extended the choreography to a minute. I also spent time with one of my dancer, Marie and taught her the piece.
I''ve decided to change my music and therefore, now I'm using 'Mausam and Escape' from the same album. I changed my music as my movements very quite dynamic and powerful and original song was quite soft and so the movement did not connect with the music much.
Also the othe dancer I wantedd to use, Yulia was already in many other pieces and therfore, she could not manage in being in my piece. So I decided to use Francesca Rolfe instead.
Week 3: 21st January
My dancers were not present on this day, so I could not work with them in terms of choreography.
However, I decided to carry on and I continued choreographing further in the piece.
By the end of this week, I had 1 minute and 30 seconds worth of movement material.
I decided to record it so I can send it to my dancers so they can practice the choreography in their own time.
Week 4: 25th January
I was not present this week as I was on a family holiday to India
Week 5: 4th February
I worked on my choreography along with my dancer (Marie). Also with her help we extended the choreography further and decided to record the entire two minutes of the piece, so we could send it to the other dancer (Francesca) to rehearse. We barely get time to rehearse with as she is a first year student and our timetable always clashes.
Week 6; 11th February
This week we were to showcase our choreography and therefore, we spent time with the first year student (Frankie) and taught her the entire piece. After teaching her the whole choreography, the three of us started to choreoraph further and practised the piece again and again with them on Wednesday and Thursday morning before the feedback session.
I was a little upset that I did not get enough time with both my dancers together as we only one rehearsal together.