Dance : Rehearsals 2 - Choreographing the Dance

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Today we held a rehearsal which both performers, Harry and Emma, could attend to establish what the final dance will look like. This was held on the dance floor in the SU as all other rooms were booked or we weren't allowed to use because they were 'not our subject,' disappointingly. We began the session by allowing them to do solo improv based off of keywords that we gave them, such as frantic. It was described to them that they began in a small box and as the dance progressed the box became bigger allowing them to be more free with movement. After the solo improv we paired them up for body contact and they improvised based off of our previous keywords and what we had discussed about our idea. After awhile we established that it would be best to split the dance into  it's three sections and work on each section at a time. When a section had been roughly finalised we would then move on to the next one to begin working on. At the very end, before the dancers left, we got them to run through it several times as a whole to give them more practise. 

Here are some photos of the performances from the rehearsal :





Since we are gonna be filming in slow motion I thought it might be nice to use the slow motion option on my phone to get an idea of how the dance will actually look in the final edit and not in real time. Here is a snippet of one of the parts slowed down, similarly to how it will end up :




I also put together a very quick edit to display some of the movement we got out of the rehearsal. This is only a very small taster of what the day consisted of and there were so many more moves that we looked at and added. The song in the edit is Vessel by Jon Hopkins, the continuation of the song The Wider Sun that contributed inspiration for the film. We used this quite a bit in rehearsals so that the dancers had something musical to bounce off of. 



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