Process and Final Work - Macy, Laura & Sarah

INTRODUCTION

This page explores the creative process of Macy, Laura, and Sarah's trio, as well as show their final work. 

This page will help to explain the different processes these three undertook in order to reach their final work.

These posts will consist of rehearsal footage in the format of videos and discussions about their decision-making process. 

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LAURA, SARAH, MACY - FINAL

Here is the link to myself, Laura and Macy's final video of our trio.

https://youtu.be/NtTUd9R4Li4

Overall I think the video turned out really well. I think our choice of music really fits with all 3 solos, it brings an upbeat and positive feel to the trio which was our aim when choosing music. The music also helps to bring the videos together, so they feel like a trio rather than 3 separate solos. 

I also think we did well choreographically fitting the three solos together, as we were able to find moments of similarity to create unison, and then also moments whereby we danced our own material alongside each other which worked really well.  

Although in the final video there were some minor timing issues such as in some of the unison sections, I think we have done really well considering it has all been done virtually. If we were to do it again I think it would be a good idea to film a rough draft beforehand so we could prevent timing issues, such as we did with the bright top piece. 

However, I think working virtually worked to our advantage in this sense, because on the screen we are all separate to one another so nothing looked out of place, and overall the video turned out just as we had planned. 

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LAURA, MACY & SARAH - TRIO REHEARSAL MEETING

On February 26^th, myself Macy and Sarah had a rehearsal meeting via Facetime to discuss our costuming and music options for our piece. We really thought about the aesthetic we wanted to portray with this trio, so we compared the styles and music we have got for other material and decided to wear blue jeans with a black top to contrast with the bright top piece and our usual black leggings for the bottoms. Not only that the styling options was also based off our music choice. We decided to choose ‘Moving on up’ by M People as we wanted to go for an upbeat, classic but chill song. To portray a sort of feel-good image. We also went over our movement material, so all our timing and movements are clean and ready to be filmed.

The structure of our trio is a mixture of jumping in and out of each other’s movement material. so mainly there will be two people dancing at one particular time. Begging with myself and Sarah performing out phrases. Then repeating our phrases, a second time for Macy and Sarah to stop and go between each other, then myself and Macy do a stop and go with our material too. Almost like a question-and-answer structure. When regards to filming we will all film individually but depending how may forms of our movement we do within the piece is going to determine how many times we will film our pieces, then they can be edited together at the end to pull our whole concept together.

We aim our final piece to be quite enjoyable to watch and a little bit more different to other stuff w e have created as we are all including more aspects of our surroundings for example the couch or desk To highlights that dancing in an area different that a studio can still be just as good .

The link to the music ' Moving on up' - M People - Moving on Up (Official Video) - YouTube

Here is an example of the style we are aiming for with our trio

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SARAH, LAURA, MACY TRIO - REHEARSAL FOOTAGE AND THOUGHTS

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The link above is the rehearsal footage of the early stages of our trio. During this time we were trying to figure out timings and structure. To try and get the desired affect we wanted on camera . At this point we had no idea of music or costume . Therefore because we were so in the unknown of our clear path. You can see us all looking into the camera to figure out when to start our next section when to stop etc. I think that is the main factor I found so challenging during this collaborative module at home that when trying to create movement and a finished work with multiple people it's very different over zoom in comparison to the studio where you can dance off each other and see more clearly the timings and the energy around you.

However I have enjoyed working on this trio , because I've been able to use different aspects of my surroundings that wouldn't usually be available. For example each one of us uses and object from our surroundings at one point, either myself under my desk , and Macy and Sarah using their sofa's.

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