Workshop 7

How can the dynamics of jazz combine with the dynamics of release?

How can the body explore the use of space within two different styles?

Date of Workshop: 12/11/19 

Aims

•  Recap phrases from previous workshops.
•  Improvisation tasks - discovering new movement ideas whilst focusing on the use of space and dynamics.

Planning

• Workshop Schedule

Duration: One Hour

• 15:00pm- 15:20pm (20 Minutes): Cleaning and recapping phrases produced from my last six workshops.
• 15:20pm - 16:00pm (40 minutes): Improvising whilst maintaining the intention of the dynamics within release and thinking of how I want to use the space , recording all movement as evidence.

Outcomes

The main principles of this workshop were based on two of my sub-questions which were how can the dynamics of jazz combine with the dynamics of release and how can the body explore the use of space within two different styles. 


Video one, two and three: The improvisation of release, focusing on dynamics and space.

Video three and four: Improvisation based on jazz, focusing on dynamics and space

Video five: Fusing elements of both jazz and release whilst aiming to express the use of dynamics and space

• Exploration of dynamics

The five videos are short sections from my improvisations that I saved as I could clearly see a strong intention of dynamics throughout which is relevant for my choreography. Furthermore the movement I created was comfortable for my body and made me move with purpose therefore snippets of this improvisation could be possibly seen in my solo.  

• Exploration of the space

Workshop eight is my first opportunity to explore the use of the space and make decisions on how I want to set my solo onstage. My third sub-question, 'How can the body explore the use of space within two different styles?', challenged me the most due to a lack of research on the differences in space within jazz and release. As I have previously stated before, I was planning to use floor work  numerously throughout my choreography which links to release technique. Many teachers and choreographers use floor work based release technique due to the gravitational challenge therefore it made sense for me to use it as my leading idea for this sub-question. Although jazz can demonstrate uses of the floor, it is more recognised to involve examples such as jumps, travelling phtases from a corner and usually a standing, upright posture. Therefore I was interested to also involve these which lead to make the decision to use the full space given. I want my movement to travel from all corners and to create multiple pathways through the space which I think would be intriguing for the audience.
 

         Outcomes

Initially, a vast amount of movement was created within this workshop and although I did not prepare research before or during this workshop, I felt that I had enough academic information from my previous workshops so that I could dive straight into creating. As this is my seventh workshop I am becoming more confident and I have a choice of phrases that I could combine in order to start creating my solo.