Process and Final Work - Mollie, Daisy & Tyler
INTRODUCTION
This page will take you through the creative process of Mollie, Daisy, and Tyler's trio as well as show the final work.
This page will help to explain our choreographic and creative process for the piece and will help to understand how our decision-making took place.
These posts will consist of rehearsal footage such as video clips as well as discussions we as a group undertook in order to come up with the decisions for the final piece. As well as video footage, we will explore our structural decisions for the visual of the work through the use of storyboards.
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MOLLIE DAISY TYLER - FINAL WORK
As well as working collaboratively to make large group projects, we were split into smaller groups of two to three in order to make duets and trios.
Me, Daisy, and Tyler worked together to create a trio. We did this by all making a solo and then performing it to each other in order to find moments that crossed over to create moments of unison, allowing it to feel more like a trio instead of three solos.
This was quite a difficult process as when we were all dancing together we weren't able to watch each other back and comment on interesting moments, therefore when we were rehearsing in our own time we decided to screen record the zoom call then watch it back together - rehearsal footage is in a separate post.
Overall, I think our decision-making was efficient and the choreographical decisions, such as costume, music, and structure have created an effective dance piece.
Here is the link to the final trio;
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MOLLIE, DAISY, TYLER TRIO - REHEARSAL FOOTAGE
Last week we met up on Zoom to work closely on our trio together, finalizing the choreographic decisions.
The first thing we decided to do was perform the trio once, without deciding any choreographic decisions and have someone screen record this clip so we could watch back and, as a group, vocalize what we liked, disliked, found interesting, and address some ideas we think could work quite well - watching it back really helped to pull apart the work as without recording it to watch back, we all found it very difficult to say what we thought after performing as we couldn’t see the piece as a whole.
This is the first recording:
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After watching this, we came up with a few ideas on what to work on next time which were; the stylistic quality of Mollie and Daisy’s solo were very similar so, therefore, worked very well next to each other - from this we decided the format of the piece (storyboard to follow) we then discussed how the stylistic quality of Tyler’s solo worked really well as a focal point of the work and to create layers and contrasts between Mollie and Daisy’s. Finally, we decided to develop moments of stillness into all three of our solos to break up the work to allow for the viewer to focus on a different dancer at a time instead of as a whole as we thought the contrasts could appear very busy and hard to follow.
This was the second recording of us taking into account what we had discussed;
After watching this we were really pleased with the way we had articulated the ideas we had spoken about and that they worked well but as you can see we had not discussed the timing of when Mollie and Daisy pause to allow Tyler to perform her solo to then restart again (this is the reason why we are looking at the camera) so we spoke about timing and agreed on the timing so that it was a lot cleaner and so we weren’t awkwardly waiting for our ‘heads up’ as such from Tyler.
This is the final recording from our rehearsal;
Overall I think we worked really productively and came up with some really interesting ways to develop the material.
MOLLIE, DAISY, TYLER - MEETING 26TH FEBRUARY
As part of the wider collaborative piece, myself, Mollie and Tyler have been developing a trio. On Friday the 26th, we met via zoom to make decisions about music, costumes and filming.
Before the meeting, we all chose a few songs that we felt would be suitable for the piece. We all spoke about the songs and discussed which ones we liked and why. We liked Iron Sky by Paulo Nutini because it had a large crescendo in the music, and an interesting vocal section that we felt might be interesting with Tyler's choreography. In the end, we tried sections of the movement to the music and felt "Dancing in the moonlight" by Toploader worked nicely. It was a song everyone knew and was a similar tempo to how we had rehearsed without music.
After Music was agreed upon, we chose costume for our final performance footage. This was quite a lengthy process, as we were considering video background as well as what had been used for the other video performances. We found in our earlier discussions when we were brainstorming ideas that we all shared the same desire to make the costume different to the other performances to camera. We wanted costume to be like this in order to make it clear to the audience that it was a separate piece. We started by all brainstorming what we felt would look effective, and then we discussed if we had similar clothes and what we felt worked, or may not about the costume. As we have decided to try and show how we have layered choreography phrases onto each other via the film we wanted to demonstrate this via costume too. Because of this, at the start me and Mollie will wear an all black outfit with a checked shirt on top. Then when we repeat our phrases with Tyler's choreography added we will all wear a black outfit. The outfit can be whatever we feel comfortable in, as long as it is black. We chose this colour as we all have black clothes available to us, and black will stand out against any of our filming backgrounds. When discussing our final decisions, we were very aware that each of us have very different spaces available to us. All of our locations are quite light though, so it should look clear on camera and effective if we wear black.
At the end of the meeting we made a rough schedule for what we wanted to achieve and when. By next Tuesday we all aim to have rehearsed more with the music independently, so that we can further refine our material. Then we can meet again via zoom and layer them all together to ensure all the moments we had previously selected to emphasise and develop are still clear. By the Tuesday after we are hoping to have our final footage filmed. We also used this time to discuss what we wanted to include in our blog posts about rehearsals and our storyboard. We felt it would be more effective if we all discussed these things collaboratively, but only a singular final copy made as they would all be uploaded to the same place. To decide who completed which task, we all randomly picked one.
The meeting was productive, and I think it is because we all spoke and listened to each other. Throughout the process we have been patient with each other, and each of us have made an effort to be conscientious towards our collaborators. Within each rehearsal there has been a conversation at the end or the beginning about non work related stuff, and in my opinion this has helped us all be able to trust each other easier as at times the collaborative process can require vulnerability. This idea of vulnerability is something we have all encountered within our readings and watching but to experience it within the collaborative process can be daunting sometimes.
If you copy and paste the link below you should be able to view the storyboard of our trio.
LINK TO STORYBOARD:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-StNr0INYxver9YaQxOdYostOd0EOwIHynvFVFgUqeI/edit?ts=603a7b92
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