Ciaras Choreography Blog

Overall I believe that our group effectively conveyed the stimulus, and message of what it's like living with DID through our group piece. I feel everyone put a lot of thought and effort behind their choreography. For example, I perceived Ella’s section to be particularly effective at conveying a sense of inner struggle to the audience with her use of dynamic partner work to portray a switch in alters within the choreography. A section of the group piece that I feel accurately portrays the original stimulus is at the beginning where we are clumped together as a group to representing the brain from the stimulus and provide to break away from the clump each embodying different emotions as shown in the stimulus. Over the course of this choreography project I do feel as though I have begun to develop a style of choreography that's more my own.  At present, my choreographic style tends to use quite a soft dynamic. I also found that I enjoy incorporating hand and arm jesters and shou...

In this blog, I will be analysing choreography from 'The Seasons' Canon' by Crystal Pite, in particular, the Spring section.  (You Tube, 2018) After watching the choreography a few times, I've interpreted the movement to portray the migration of birds and the awakening of a swarm of insects and other animals after a cold winter. In the beginning Pite positioned a group of dancers in a huddle slowly rising to face a glimmering golden light which shines brighter as the performance continues, which I think could represent animals coming out of hibernation. The dancers then proceed to rise, fall and swerve in unison which gave me the impression the Pite could possibly have used starlings as her stimulus for this section. It also reminded me of the almost  hivemind that animals seem to adopt when in migration patterns. The unnatural contorted and sharp movements Pite used in the second section is what reminded me of a swarm of insects. The stance the dancers take almost se...