experimental dance

This is a piece made for camera by experimental artist de Yvonne Rainer in 1966. Although it is only choreographed on an isolated part of the body, I do still believe that it is dance because it contains choreographed movement. However it is clear that she is more focused on the process as the performance is not very engaging for the audience, but does show isolation in its simplest form.

I feel that it is important that this style of choreography was experimented with, as although we don't use isolation in this form, we have developed on this to use isolation with in our own body's when choreographing. Isolation is used in both the commercial and contemporary styles, although its purpose adds different performance quality's to both genres.

After watching this clip we were given a task to make a score from what we saw and follow it, without changing or manipulating the score in anyway. I struggled to work in this way to begin with as I tend to envision movement in my head, and then see what it looks like when it is performed.

However I found that I was limited to what I saw in the movements in the clip, and didn't like the fact  it had to be the first movement that I came up with. Once I got over the fact that I was not completely controlling what I was choreographing it became spontaneous ,I found that it gave me very abstract and interesting movements.

This it useful as a tool to stop the constant repetition of movements that I tend to use and expand my movement vocabulary. This was just an task so it didn't really matter what the end product looked like, but in the future I could always change and adapt the movements I have created to become more fitting.