Lucy Imamzade Year 1 BTUK

Strategies I used in this task was, setting myself a plan which consisted of creating 1 minute of my choreography a week in order to have it completed by the studio performance with enough time to practice and perfect my choreography, however, as I have mentioned in previous blogs, this was a very unrealistic target due to me only being able to complete 30 seconds a lesson maximum, so if I were to get the opportunity to do this again, I would definitely set myself a more realistic target. So I am not stressing when I don’t hit my target. Another strategy I had while creating my choreography, was improvisation, this really helped me when I was struggling creatively to choreography to the music, this was inspired by my chosen practitioner, this really helped me as I was able to create new and abstract phrases within my peice allowing me to add them within my choreography. Time management was definitely a challenge for me due to me only being able to choreograph 30 seconds each lesson, ...

Discuss, critique and review this dance piece:  The movement of this choreography piece is a combination of both ballet and contemporary much like other dance pieces I liked at previously choreographed by Wayne McGregor (Infra, Wolf Works) I would say that this piece is very abstract and delicate due to its unusual music and movements, for example the music is very repetitive and had a basic and simple rhythm to it, however this is juxtaposed through the abstract and creative are arm movements which is continued throughout the whole choreography piece. I also found this piece - Genus Variation- focusing mainly on the contemporary style of dance in comparison to the ballet/ contemporary style (neo-classical) thats is round throughout all his choreographic pieces. I found this very interesting due to Wayne McGregor’s main focus point being the neo-classical style. However I feel although the audience will gather a unexpected reaction allowing them to create and form and ne...