Megan Foster L6 Advanced Independent Solo Choreography

  After performing my independent solo choreography for my assessment I am really happy and proud of myself alongside my choreography. Over the past few months, I have worked well with my time management and ensuring I challenge myself however, still staying true to my theme and story line with the use of emotions and choreographic devices.     From the beginning of my choreographic process I set out to manage my time well, to guarantee I wasn’t overwhelmed with creating too much material as the performance approached, I also thought it was important to create more material than needed and this would allow me to not be stuck on the same section, this was something I gained an understanding from my chosen practitioner, Alexandra Whitley. I also found the idea of improv and experimenting new movements and phrases in the studios would allow me to come up with more material and I could later adapt this into my solo choreography.   Over the past few months of creating my ...

  This week I have completed the first full draft of my independent solo choreography and even though there are some slight changes to be made and a significant amount of cleaning to do I am really happy and proud of my work nevertheless I am please with how I have challenged myself both as a choreographer and dancer throughout this process. The new section I have created and added to my piece, is the ending where the character starts to lose hope of being rescued and gives up on trying as they believe it is over when it gets to the eleventh day. This then develops into the use of repetition with much smaller and intricate movements to represent hearing the boat which rescues the stranded men. This section is much more emotional as there are a mixture of feelings involved such as happiness to have survived and finally being found  whereas there is also the feeling of desperation whilst feeling very weak and unrecognisable as the eleventh day comes.   (Smith, 2016)   ...