Motif Development

 Reflecting on this week’s choreography I have created a further 40 seconds onto my choreography. This week I have been focusing on Rudolf Laban's 'effort system' which revolves 8 different characterizations in which the body its moved:

- Floating

-Dabbing

-Wringing

- Thrusting 

-Pressing

-Flicking

-Slashing

-Gliding 

I began by organising the 8 effort qualities based on their dynamics, this allowed to me then plan in advance where I wanted portray each effort throughout the whole of my solo. This is how I organised them:

I then chose my Music in which correlated with the first section of my stimulus idea, the song is called "We Will Never Come Back Here Again" by Tim Linghaus. As soon as I heard this instrumental and the different rhythms that is proceeds. Here is the link to my first chosen song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-nI8glvHM

From here I created small movements in which fitted to the 'soft' category. At first, I was overwhelmed by the variety of movement I could create, so I was bit lost and didn't know where to start. I then decided that I was going to break it down into different body parts starting with my arms. As a classical based dancer and after watching Labans "The Living Idol" I managed to easily create several movements in which not only fitted in with my category but also the narrative of this section. I then did the same process but with different body parts such as my legs and torso. To my surprise I found creating soft movements with my legs very challenged, I think this is due to your legs not being very malleable- only going front side and back- to overcome this I made more use of my plie making my movement more grounded. Overall, I really enjoyed this choreographic process and am excited to see how I can adapt these movements to fit my other categories. 

My next creative session I am going to focus on creating movement for my second section. The song I have chosen for this is called 'Never Fight a Man with a Perm" by Matt Emery. I want to create movement now to my 'sharp' category in which will fit with the second section of my choreography. Reflecting back to second year I want to include more choreographic devices within my piece, including accumulation, reversal, retrograde and fragmentation. I am excited to start and get stuck in with this new section of my choreography. 

 

Rudolf Labans- The Living Idol: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30TZREaiio

Bibliography:

Barbara Mettler Studios., 2019, The Living Idol Final Scene Rufold Laban, [online], Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30TZREaiio , [accessed on 11th November 2021]

Savannah., 2011, Savannahs Theatre Blog, General Information About the Eight Efforts: Laban, [online], Available at https://savannahindigo.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/general-information-about-the-eight-basic-efforts-laban/ , [accessed on 11th November 2021]