First Year: My Chosen Stimuli for Solo Choreography
Choreography 6
Following the lesson last week, we continued to look into our final ideas for our choreography.
My chosen stimulus is shown below.
This appealed to me the most because I found that I could draw a lot of ideas from it. My main and final idea is going to be around sleep and what the brain does when your asleep. When further investigating the picture, I took notice on the smudge across his face which could suggest a blindfold of some kind which links to how your separated from the rest of the world by the barrier of your eyelids. With the empty head/mind, I saw it as the brain is still processing things but it’s hidden and no one can see it.
I have done my own research into this idea and found out that the brain generates two types of sleep. SWS (slow-wave sleep) and R.E.M. (rapid eye movement). Because there are two types of sleep, I thought about perhaps having 2 sections in my solo to portray this clearly.
The majority of the time when you are asleep, SWS occurs and happens first. It is characterized by large slow brain waves, relaxed muscles and slow deep breathing. Because of this stage happening first when your asleep, I’m going to use this as my first section in my choreography.
The second stage is REM which happens straight after SWS and this is the process where the brain is more active. Breathing and heart rate become more erratic, this would where I would start doing faster and sharper movements contrasting the first section.
I am still unsure on what style of music I want for my solo piece and whether I want to explore the first stage and incorporate slow music with the slower movements or vise versa with the faster and sharper movements and faster pace music.
Looking into further research, I am undetermined whether to stick to this original plan or explore different areas of sleep such as investigating the other stages of sleep or perhaps sleep diseases. But my current concept of my choreography at this current stage is having two sections and focusing on making the contrast between them more visible.
Following the lesson last week, we continued to look into our final ideas for our choreography.
My chosen stimulus is shown below.
This appealed to me the most because I found that I could draw a lot of ideas from it. My main and final idea is going to be around sleep and what the brain does when your asleep. When further investigating the picture, I took notice on the smudge across his face which could suggest a blindfold of some kind which links to how your separated from the rest of the world by the barrier of your eyelids. With the empty head/mind, I saw it as the brain is still processing things but it’s hidden and no one can see it.
I have done my own research into this idea and found out that the brain generates two types of sleep. SWS (slow-wave sleep) and R.E.M. (rapid eye movement). Because there are two types of sleep, I thought about perhaps having 2 sections in my solo to portray this clearly.
The majority of the time when you are asleep, SWS occurs and happens first. It is characterized by large slow brain waves, relaxed muscles and slow deep breathing. Because of this stage happening first when your asleep, I’m going to use this as my first section in my choreography.
The second stage is REM which happens straight after SWS and this is the process where the brain is more active. Breathing and heart rate become more erratic, this would where I would start doing faster and sharper movements contrasting the first section.
I am still unsure on what style of music I want for my solo piece and whether I want to explore the first stage and incorporate slow music with the slower movements or vise versa with the faster and sharper movements and faster pace music.
Looking into further research, I am undetermined whether to stick to this original plan or explore different areas of sleep such as investigating the other stages of sleep or perhaps sleep diseases. But my current concept of my choreography at this current stage is having two sections and focusing on making the contrast between them more visible.
I love how you have researched into the stages of sleep in detail. How are you going to show these two stages within your dance?
ReplyDeleteThe first stage is SWS which involves slow and relaxed movements so my slow and continuous dynamics will portray this. This will then lead to the second stage which is REM. This consists of stronger and sharper movements which links to the rapid eye movement itself and the faster heart rate.
DeleteYou have made a clear connection between your final idea and the stimuli within your post, well done! For further development, consider what further research you will undertake to add greater depth and understanding to your theme. How will your research affect your movement development and how will the use of choreographic devices help portray your idea?
ReplyDeleteThis will affect my movement development as I will be exploring different ways where I can execute slow and relaxed muscular movements for SWS, for example.
DeleteSame goes for the REM, I will be looking into ways where I can create sharp and strong movements to help portray my idea across to the audience.
I think I will include repetition as one of the choreographic devices to link to sleep as I have looked into dreams and there are such things as a reoccurring dream which I think repetition will compliment clearly with.