I will be creating a dance on bird migration where i will be focusing on penguins pecifically rockhopper penguins from the a2 aqa dance paper I shall also be using the style of Jiri Kylian also from the a2 dance exam paper below have included research and past performance anylsis .
I will use choreographic tools to translate ideas into dance material. To create my dance i have done this by using research of the penguins form videos on youtube and other dance works
• i will try to reveal a competent understanding of choreographic and structuring
devices in relation to group choreography, which should result in a coherent piece of work. I will also be imaginative and original with my use of the aural setting which i have kept to minimum as i want the dancers to have the spotlight/focus. I prefere simplicity it also allows the dancer to express the meaning of the dance as they now know from research and there own creative tasks how a peguin would interact with others .
The tasks i have gave my dancers 1) coming up with bars of eight of dance cheoreograph from a stimulus ( of a picture see below) 2) a gave them a task to create tableuxs/ freeze frames of a penguin scenes that could be used in the dance 3) I sent them to watch videos on youtube 4) to look at more pictures of how they act and move see below video this took the dance to a prefromance.
The tasks i have gave my dancers 1) coming up with bars of eight of dance cheoreograph from a stimulus ( of a picture see below) 2) a gave them a task to create tableuxs/ freeze frames of a penguin scenes that could be used in the dance 3) I sent them to watch videos on youtube 4) to look at more pictures of how they act and move see below video this took the dance to a prefromance.
• by the dancers creating sections and playing with my choreography it allowed me to explore the dancers attributes and adapt it to their styles.
the penguin informormation is my research for both charecterisation and cotume
costume ideas
for my dance research and material exploration
The rockhopper penguins are three closly related species . . people say these three penguins are completly different , but split the Western and Eastern forms into the Southern Rockhopper Penguin and keeping the Northern Rockhopper as distinct, while other experts lump all 3 calling it simply Rockhopper Penguin.
after deciding i was going to do penguin migration i researched the characterizations i wanted my dance to tell a story i wanted my dancers to look at videos of penguins and to come up with there own sections of counts so they could bring there own personality's to the piece.
Rsearch for my solo dance about Jiri Kylian
Work
He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under John Cranko, where he began to work as a choreographer.[3] Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theaterin 1976. His best known works include Symphony of Psalms (1978). His style include exploring the limitations and capabilities of space, body parts, entrances and exits, contrasts, and humor.
In 1992, he started his own chamber company for dancers over 40.[4]
Kylián's main works include:
Forgotten Land (1981)[edit]
Forgotten Land 1981 explores memories, events and people that over time are lost or forgotten and how people sometimes vainly try to recover them, or a sense of them in order to regain their former power and value. The work itself is inspired and based on a painting of women on a beach by the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. The work mainly involves duets who move their arms in various stretched positions, as if they were reaching out for something. The dancers arch their backs and dance expressively, reflecting both the music and the haunting painting that influenced the work. Kylián makes a statement of lost homelands, lost lovers and lost times and there are also duets that reflect violent moods. These duets end up as a large ensemble and then the women are left on the shore, stretching their arms again like birds that cannot fly.
Falling Angels (1989)[edit]
Falling Angels is a part of the Black and White ballets, which were created in 1989 with 8 white female dancers dressed in black leotards. It was performed to drumming/percussion music based on ceremonial ritual music from Ghana (West Africa). Musical rhythms and patterns are used and mixed in a synthesizer to produce a layered effect in some sections. The result of this a more energetic, sometimes frenzied sound that the dancers match in a very physical dance.
Falling Angels depicts females and female dancers in their aim to achieve perfection but succumb in various stages to the human female psyche and female events such as ambition, seduction, pregnancy, birth, death, motherhood and self-awareness. It is about the things that pull and push a dancer from the 'purity' of dance and performance. Kylián was influenced by surrealism and minimalism during the creation of this work and the 'black and white ballets'. In this ballet we see the combination of classical lines and sharp percussive movements that give unpredictability to the piece as a whole.
Petite Mort (1991)[edit]
Petite Mort was composed for the 1991 Salzburg Festival on the second centenary of Mozart's death with six men, six women, and six foils. Assistant choreographer was Roslyn Anderson, costumes by Joke Visser, and music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart included Piano Concerto in A Major – Adagio and Piano Concerto in C Major – Andante.
Other works[edit]
List of works from 1973 to 1998 include[5]
- Viewers (1973)
- Stoolgame (1974)
- Blue Skin (1974)
- La cathédrale engloutie (1975)
- Transfigured Night (1975)
- Torso (1975)
- Nuages (1976)
- Elegia (1976)
- Symphony in D (1976)
- November Steps (1977)
- Ariadne (1977)
- Kinderspelen (1978)
- Sinfonietta (1978)
- Rainbow Snake (1978)
- Symphony of Psalms (1978)
- Mša glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass) (1979)
- Dream Dances (1979)
- Soldatenmis (1980)
- Overgrown Path (1980)
- Forgotten Land (1981)
- Nomaden (1982)
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1982)
- Svadebka (1982)
- Stamping Ground (1983)
- Dreamtime (1983)
- Curses and Blessings, with Christopher Bruce (1983)
- Wiegelied (1983)
- Return to the Strange Land (1984)
- Valencia (1984)
- L'enfant et les sortilèges (1984)
- Heart's Labyrinth 1 (1984)
- Heart's Labyrinth 2 (1985)
- Piccolo Mondo (1985)
- Silent Cries (1986)
- L'Histoire du soldat (1986)
- Sechs Tanze (1986)
- Heart's Labyrinth 3 (1987)
- Frankenstein! (1987)
- Evening Songs (1987)
- St joris rijdt uit (1987)
- Kaguyahime (1988)
- No More Play (1988)
- Tanzschul (1989)
- Falling Angels (1989)
- Sweet Dreams (1990)
- sSrabande (1990)
- Un ballo (1991)
- Petite Mort (1991)
- Obscure Temptations (1991)
- Stepping Stones (1991)
- As If Never Been (1992)
- No Sleep Till Dawn of Day (1992)
- Whereabouts Unknown (1993)
- Tiger Lily (1993)
- Double You (1993)
- Arcimboldo (1994)
- Bella figura (1995)
- Anna and the Ostriches (1996)
- Compass (1996)
- If Only ... (1996)
- Trompe-l'oeil (1996)
- Wings of Wax (1997)
- A way a lone (1998)
- One of a Kind (1998)
- Indigo Rose (1998)
- Doux Mensonges (1999)
- Click-Pause-Silence (2000) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- Birth-day (2001)
- Blackbird (2001)
- 27′52″ (2002) Nederlands Dans Theater II
- Claude Pascal (2002) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- When Time Takes Time (2002) Nederlands Dans Theater III
- Far too close (2003) Nederlands Dans Theater III
- Last Touch (2003) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- Il faut q'une porte (2004)
- Sleepless (2004) Nederlands Dans Theater II
- Toss of a Dice (2005) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- Chapeau (2005) Nederlands Dans Theater II
- Tar and Feathers (2006) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- Vanishing Twin (2008) Nederlands Dans Theater I
- Gods and Dogs (2008) Nederlands Dans Theater II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Kyli%C3%A1nsourced 10/6/14
Solo dance on Jiri Kylian
Final Performance
on the day I was incredibly nervous, however i feel my dance routine went well .I felt like i stayed with the rythem and my musicalty was good . I made the dance more playful and i seemed to relax wich i had never done so during the dance. I came out of the performance really happy and enjoying it
what i could have done better - i think i could have changed a couple of the movements i felt challenging however i really enjoyed theses moves so i thought it would be best to keep them in specialy so close to the performance. i think if i had had more ballet lessons it would have improved my technique and stamina for the perfromance. also i think if i had rehersed the dance more my endurence would have been better and my perfromance would have stayed energised through out.
what went well
i think my performance was confident and playful i dont think i let my energy drop and with the jumps i hit the right beat so all in all i think that its the best performance i have done so far.
programe notes for my AS dance routine
Solo Dance
Programme notes
Name :Megan Ring
Question :3
Structure: narrative
Music assassin creed 2 fight over Venice
My stimulus is the story of Icarus , im doing it from a dream scape the boys father is reliving the event of hes boys death . I start on the floor to show that his is sleeping I use sweeping and floaty movemnts . my floor plan is a circle like the sun orbiting the earth to show flight.
I feel I can relate to the story as its his dream of flying like my dream of achieving
prgramme notesfor my A2
Solo Dance
Name :Megan Ring
Question :3
Structure: narrative
Music assassin creed 2 fight over Venice
My stimulus is the story of Icarus , im doing it from a dream scape the boys father is reliving the event of hes boys death . I start on the floor to show that his is sleeping I use sweeping and floaty movemnts . my floor plan is a circle like the sun orbiting the earth to show flight.
I feel I can relate to the story as its his dream of flying like my dream of achieving
prgramme notesfor my A2
Solo Dance
Name – Megan Ring
Centre name – Worthing College 8209
Title of dance – fun
Dance duration - 2.36
Music title - Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II
Composer – Mozart
This dance is in the style of Jiri Kylian who joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 where he began to work as a choreographer. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederland’s dance theater company in 1976. His best known works include Symphony of Psalms (1978). His style include exploring the limitations and capabilities of space, body parts, entrances and exits, contrasts, and humor. The dance also contains gesture work and is light hearted.
Centre name – Worthing College 8209
Title of dance – fun
Dance duration - 2.36
Music title - Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II
Composer – Mozart
This dance is in the style of Jiri Kylian who joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 where he began to work as a choreographer. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederland’s dance theater company in 1976. His best known works include Symphony of Psalms (1978). His style include exploring the limitations and capabilities of space, body parts, entrances and exits, contrasts, and humor. The dance also contains gesture work and is light hearted.
My group dance A 2 programme notes
(see research above about penguins)
Question number: 1) Bird MigrationDuration of dance 2 mins 40
Title of music - Cold Music
Name(s) of musician(s) Aim
Name(s) of dancer(s) – Emily Partner , Emily Green, Abi Powel l, Aaliyah Davison, Sophie Sheppard
Title of Dance – The Rockhoppers
Candidate’s name –Megan Ring
Candidate number -8209
College – Worthing college
Programme note - My dance is based on Rockhopper penguins from the Falklands and how they migrate north west to the Patagonian shelf. This is shown in my dance through repetition and having the dancers exiting north west throughout the piece.
My dance is in narrative form as it tells the tale of a family of penguins and their journey to find food for the cold months of winter.
Choreographically I have used the characterisations of penguins. For example, clumsy waddling and bouncy movements , as this is how Rockhopper penguins travel.
I have chosen music with cold undertones to contextualise the penguins environment.
Mock exam
today we had a practise for our exam where we had to come in one by one and perform our jiri kylian routine.
what i did well : i rememebered the routine well and was mostly in time i acturatly used my body to perfrom the dance i used a range of dynamics for ecample slow then fast movemnts with the dance i was also focused with the dance and stayed in role when i made a light error.
what went wrong : i made a slight mistake but managed to cover it up and i also nearly forgot the choreography.
what i need to improve for my exam:
i need to keep my energy levels up thoughout the dance and my teacher told me they lagged towsrds the end to change this i need to keep doing the dance to build up stamina.I also need to stop worrying about the moves and peform this dance it is fun and quitky so i need to show this in my facial expressions and play with the movements a bit more i think im going to look at clowning and mining to see how they move and there facial reactions. i need to be more playful with it and confident. i also need to make sure i use my neck and vertibrate as i curl up leaving my head for last this important one it looks nicer and two it protects my neck from injury
i am going to apply performance skills to a specific practitioner aka jiri kylian i will demonstarate
a comprehensive understanding of safe practice and the
appropriate technical and expressive skills
needed in solo presentation.
This will be evident in the:
• accurate and articulate use of my bodily skill in
relation to Jiri Kylian style
i will have control of the space (personal
and stage space) in relation to Jiri Kylian
i will also use a range of dynamics in relation
to jiri kylian aswell i will also use informeed use of focus and projection to comunicate the dance idea in realtion to jiri kylian .
• The performance is presented in a sophisticated
and highly polished, elegant way, clearly
demonstrating an understanding of the specific
genre and style Jiri Kylian
America
we performed a number from west side story for the dance show overall we acheived good feeback witht the performance being livly and animated
group strengh
as a whole we had good charecterisation and and timing was quite good whith high energy levesls
group weakness
timing could have been improved
my strengh - my charecterisation was stron as was my timeing i used the music to charecterise the moves.
what i need to improve
i need to workig on my confidence with the peice i will do this by going through the dance more.
dance blog
in todays lesson we created and developed a dance routine to the stimulus of lyrics - we has to use the lyrics to create a dancehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaZy4FmhmE
unit 50
i shall be able to
Know how to respond to
different stimuli as potential for performance material aka if i am given or choose a them or a peice of music or even a photo i shall be able to create a dance around this. i shall also be able to Be able to reproduce
movement phrases within a performance i will be able to look at other dance peices and produce my own with use of contact work and gestures and improvisation. i will also respond to direction and costrustrive cristisim about my peice.i shall be able to work in a group aswell and be able to evaluate my own dance abiltys in that perfromance.
i feel i have covered secton one and two within the dance routine america as i used west siede story as a stimulus and we produced a dance routine i also responded well to rehersal instruction and came in on time and workd well with others.
i am going to perform a dance solo from my as class with the use of a stimulus and i shall reherse reguly and look at other practitionwers ideas .
copy all as research to blog
for critea 2 i am going to do my taking part in technical class
for critea 3 i have to do what i am told i can do this for bad girls for my prison guards
for critea 4 taking constuctive critisim and making the changes
suessical and america - i needed to work on my performance
critearia 5 best performance aka either america move or falling angels or zero degrees keep updating blog
critea 6: provide and evaluation of the performace strength and weakness three of each a distinction three paragraphes
black history month america
dance show
america and all the thinks
suessical how did these shows go
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