choreography Class chance methods

Delving deeper into chance methods we began to put them into practise. We were given a dice and asked to attach a movement to the numbers, making the dice in charge of what movement would be next. I found that this made it easy to work within the group because personal opinion didn't matter as the moves were already predetermined.

 Also the process was quicker than any other creative method I had used before in group choreography, meaning that we generated a lot of movement material in a short space of time. Also it created a piece that ventured outside each others comfort zones giving us movements that were less generic.The movement vocabulary now was interesting but lacked any dynamics.

We then repeated this process but labelled the numbers with Laban's efforts instead of possible movements. The results of this chance method gave us interesting and intricate dynamical movement, by adding a range of dynamics to the choreography the movements began to jump out at the audience. However I felt that it was important to look back at the choreography by either recording it or stepping out to view it, so you can see if it appears too busy or needs adjusting.

After we had choreographed a few motifs in this way we then used this method to structure the dance.  We split the motifs up into half's and then allocated a half to a dice number.When collaboratively choreographing a group piece I found chance methods a more effective tool to use, than when producing a solo. Personally I felt that this was because it uses were now expanded and chance could me manipulated in different ways.  

   When doing this I found that the splitting of motifs was nice as every now and then you would see movements that you were familiar with, linking the whole piece together. Unfortunately we kept rolling the same number so the choreography became very repetitive in places, showing me that sometimes the score you get works and sometimes it does not and you have to try again.

I particularly liked using chance to manipulate the rhythm and speed of the choreography because more often than not we change our movements to fit to the quality's of the movements. By taking this choice out it meant that the music and movements sometimes contrasted each other, but then also worked in harmony at points giving the whole piece a abstract feel.