Early Choreography of 'La Vie Boheme' (Friday 11th September)

We began the lesson with discussing about what we thought a stimulus means and how we can use them in dance and movement. A stimulus is a starting point or a idea that you can develop and expand off of, to create new and broadened ideas. There are four main types of stimulus's in dance;

1. The first one is a visual stimulus, this can either be a photograph, colour's, films or anything that can be seen and take inspiration from.
2. the second type of stimulus is an Auditory stimulus, this can include a piece of music, sound, rhythm or speech. These are used as a starting point and you can either take words, phrases or patterns in the speech as inspiration and work off of that.
3. The third type of stimulus is just a theme for a piece, this can be a range of different things. Such as a fairy tale, a significant message or a personal story. This type of stimulus is often the starting point for more meaning full pieces.
4. The last type of stimulus is a piece of text. this is where you find words or dialog that inspire you and take certain words or sections to inspire and create movements. This can include; Scripts from plays, poetry, current or past news, literature or and historical recordings.

What Text based stimulus have you used before in a performance.


When I performed a duet piece in the winter dance show, we did a dance to the song 'Fix You' by Coldplay. We began by listening to the song and then discussed possible storylines and themes that we heard in the lyrics. We came up with the idea of a couple arguing and going through some tuff times. Once we had started devising it we began to look deeper into the lyrics and started to pick apart words and phrases out, one of them was "Tears stream down your face". We did some falling, downwards movements to show that the couple had let each other down. I found it easy to get inspiration from the words as you could take it direct or change the words around.


In the rest of the lesson we began to do some work on some of the rent songs, we began to look at the song 'La Vi Boheme'. We looked at the visual stimulus that were available, this was mainly the film, as they use a lots of different styles of dance, and had some really good  movements that linked well to the words of the song. We then created a mind map of the different movements styles that we picked up on in the scene and then some movements that we thought would work well in our version.


























After we had taken inspiration from the film we went on to learn the main phrase of the dance, while exploring parts of the dance and incorporating styles that we had seen in the film. I felt it quite easy to pick up this phrase as it was slow and didn't have a to fast of a beat. Before next lesson I want to explore a character for the scene and how we would interact with each other.