Amy - Experiment for individual choreographic development

After much thought and discussion of ideas, I decided to work towards progressing as a director/choreographer and to experiment with the idea of directing my 'goggled/blind' participants through poses using a photograph. The photographs I used for the experiment were:

 www.funnyvooz.com
www.dreamstime.com

www.elitedaily.com


For these images I placed Terri  and Jess using voice and touch to direct the girls into the exact position of the photograph and gave them both a mood/emotion to inspire their movement for improvisation. Through this experiment I am hoping to create the image and make the photograph come to life through the participants awareness of body language and feeling/dynamic. With the absence of sight and complete sense of voice and touch, this can inspire movement and imagination for choreography by feeling aware of a particular shape given to your body. This embodied experience can assist ways of choreographing through the use of direction and knowing where to start. In the videos, (I will post shortly) you will see how Jess and Terri took the detail of the pose into consideration throughout their improvisation as I also asked the girls to be aware of choreographic devices when improvising such as fragmentation, instrumentation, etc. 

We will be using this experiment in the lecture demonstration as a live product to involve the audience and gather how they felt from this experience and what they thought the pose was and how they might have been performing. As the audience are goggled, they will have no knowledge of the pose they are taking or what the situation of the photograph may be. It's all part of the experiment and the experience. 

It will  also be interesting to see what different qualities immerse from each individual and if it works as a piece of dance... We will see.