Our stimulus that we used for this lesson was Pablo Picasso's, Guernica. Which is a painting based on the bombing of Guernica this is a village in Spain, for this task we had to come up with different emotions and adjectives that would be associated with this painting.
- Panic
- Fear
- Chaos
- Desperation
- Anger
- Destruction
- Distress
- Escape
- Grotesque
In this lesson we learnt a few motifs that represented different things for example we learnt a floor motif that showed people crawling away from something and trying to escape. We also learn a jumpy motif that represented the chaos of the situation, as well as this the impact of the bombs continuously dropping. We then had to work on solos, this was made from a range of positions that we came up with from the adjectives that we just discussed. Once we had done this, we had to individually link them using interesting transitions, I wanted to use different movements to link, this is because the painting is very abstract therefore I didn't think that simple common movements would be appropriate for this stimulus. I enjoyed doing this task as it gave me a chance to come up with my own choreography and interpret the painting in my own way. We then got into groups and started to choreograph a group dance using the solos and other motifs that we had previously learnt. We decided to use choreographic devises to develop our dance, we used fragmentation, retrograde and repetition. We also changed the spacing and directions so that we can interact with each other. As well as this we worked on a contact sequence, this shows that we are scambling through each other and the rumble left by the bomb, there are also moments in the dance where we break away from each other, this shows that people lost each other and were running around trying to find safety. At the end of the dance we all scramble to each other and collapse as if to lose hope.
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