Trio Choreography-Lesson 1 (Abigail)

In our first choreography lesson we were handed our assignment briefs within our groups. Here we found out the 3 possible stimuli in which we could choose to base our group choreography on. Our 3 possible stimuli in which we could choose from were; The character Katniss Everdeen from the novel/film 'The Hunger Games', The 'Tale of The Three Brothers' from the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or a piece of art by the artist 'Banksy'. Upon the first look at our options, we decided on the stimulus of the 'Tale of The Three Brothers'. We then watched a clip from the film to ensure that all members of the group where aware of the tale. After watching the clip, we decided that we couldn't think of many creative and innovative ideas for our choreography therefore we decided to choose a different stimulus. 

After contemplating different ideas,as a group,we decided on the Stimulus of creating a choreography based on a piece of art from the artist 'Banksy'. After we decided on this stimulus we used the search engine Google to search for a piece of art to base our choreography on. Instantly,one piece of art stood out to our group and immediately filled us within several innovative ideas in which we could use for our choreography. We chose the piece of art which is based around a young girl letting go of a red,heart shaped balloon. This piece of art stood out to us as the piece of art didn't have one evident meaning which allowed us to think of several different responses to the artwork.

One of our ideas based on this artwork would be that the little girl would be in the middle of her mother and father fighting and in the end would have to say goodbye to her father when he decides to leave her mother. Eventually we decided that this idea didn't fill us with much inspiration so we decided to think of something else. We then decided on the idea of the little girl letting go of a family loss however we didn't feel like our choreography would be as innovative as it could be if we chose this idea. After many more ideas, we thought of an idea which is very innovative. After researching this piece of art, we learnt that the art is based on hope. After finding out the real concept we decided on an idea of 3 little girls dancing with a balloon and the balloon would represent an imaginary world in which they wish to live in. As the dance progresses, one by one, the girls would realise that this isn't reality and would stop dancing with the balloon to represent that they are stepping into real life. The dance will end with the final girl letting go of the balloon demonstrating the piece of art. We decided to dance to the song Light by Sleeping at Last as it has a range of speeds within it and demonstrates our stimulus very well.