First Year: Final Performance Evaluation
As my final performance has now been done and my piece was shown to the panel, this blog will explain my experience across the module and my own personal view overall.
Since the very start of choreographing, I made sure that I enhanced the use of breath so it was visible to the audience and would add a unique style as I don't think the other pieces included natural sounds, so including this into my solo benefited in a way of originality which hopefully stood out and engaged the audience.
Because my final idea gradually become bigger and more structured, at the very beginning I was only focused on 2 sleep stages.
However, after further research and a small talk with my teacher, I came across a sleeping disorder which so happened to link with one of the sleep stages, REM.
Because of this, it became important to me to include this in to my piece as it gave my final idea more depth and shows my further knowledge and understanding into this subject.
Finding this sleeping disorder made me find my final section of the piece which was a dream which included being chased and defending myself from something, which is mentioned in my further research blog below.
By having all of the knowledge I have now about my final idea, I structured my solo into 4 sections, SWS, REM, REM behavior sleeping disorder and the dream.
Due to having a strong plan which evolved from the first choreography lesson to the final performance, this in my opinion made my piece easier to convey and I felt confident whilst performing it as it was organised well.
As I have mentioned in one of my blogs, I came across with the challenge of my first choice of music being removed of sound cloud. Having this issue at first was definitely a struggle but due to having past experience in A-level Dance, we had to choreograph our piece without music first so we were able to fully focus on the movement and work out what movement will portray my piece the best and clearly for the audience. So in the end, this challenge became successful for me as I was able to allow myself to focus on the movement I was creating for each section so the audience would know which section.
If I was able to perform this solo again, I would definitely make more eye contact with the audience as I felt like I didn't do it as much as I thought. A second thing I would have done is make my intentional breath sounds more prominent because I have a small feeling that some of my breath sounds were clear and noticeable but I'm afraid that me getting tired and out of breath was mixed with my breath for the piece.
This overall module has improved me as a dancer and a choreographer as I was able to think outside the box and I have learnt new ways of improvising in the choreography sessions before creating our pieces. I felt from these lessons that I was prepared to create my movements and linking in from what we learnt from our previous lessons such as choreographic devices, for example.
I can look back at this module with positivity as I am very proud of my overall outcome.
Since the very start of choreographing, I made sure that I enhanced the use of breath so it was visible to the audience and would add a unique style as I don't think the other pieces included natural sounds, so including this into my solo benefited in a way of originality which hopefully stood out and engaged the audience.
Because my final idea gradually become bigger and more structured, at the very beginning I was only focused on 2 sleep stages.
However, after further research and a small talk with my teacher, I came across a sleeping disorder which so happened to link with one of the sleep stages, REM.
Because of this, it became important to me to include this in to my piece as it gave my final idea more depth and shows my further knowledge and understanding into this subject.
Finding this sleeping disorder made me find my final section of the piece which was a dream which included being chased and defending myself from something, which is mentioned in my further research blog below.
By having all of the knowledge I have now about my final idea, I structured my solo into 4 sections, SWS, REM, REM behavior sleeping disorder and the dream.
Due to having a strong plan which evolved from the first choreography lesson to the final performance, this in my opinion made my piece easier to convey and I felt confident whilst performing it as it was organised well.
As I have mentioned in one of my blogs, I came across with the challenge of my first choice of music being removed of sound cloud. Having this issue at first was definitely a struggle but due to having past experience in A-level Dance, we had to choreograph our piece without music first so we were able to fully focus on the movement and work out what movement will portray my piece the best and clearly for the audience. So in the end, this challenge became successful for me as I was able to allow myself to focus on the movement I was creating for each section so the audience would know which section.
If I was able to perform this solo again, I would definitely make more eye contact with the audience as I felt like I didn't do it as much as I thought. A second thing I would have done is make my intentional breath sounds more prominent because I have a small feeling that some of my breath sounds were clear and noticeable but I'm afraid that me getting tired and out of breath was mixed with my breath for the piece.
This overall module has improved me as a dancer and a choreographer as I was able to think outside the box and I have learnt new ways of improvising in the choreography sessions before creating our pieces. I felt from these lessons that I was prepared to create my movements and linking in from what we learnt from our previous lessons such as choreographic devices, for example.
I can look back at this module with positivity as I am very proud of my overall outcome.
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