Week 3-key practitioner Justin Peck's Process and SHAPES

Creating choreography using one of Justin peck’s processes

After researching and evaluating Justin Peck’s choreography the task we were given was to use sketching out formations and patterns, one his choreographic process to create our own choreographic elements. This will later help with our own choreography piece. As a class we all drew one shape or pattern on a piece of paper, these were random and had no real thought towards them. Some of the patterns included; straight lines, zig zag lines, circles, squares, rectangles and random swirls. We then worked on our own to evaluate how we could adapt these basics shapes and patterns into movement which would flow together to create a small piece of choreography.

To do this we thought about the different adaptions we could make: for example one of the shapes was a basic 2D square and to adapt this shape we had options such as drawing the shape with a body part, creating the shape , using the shape as an object or moving in the form of the shape. The aim was to see how something so basic could be created into movement that looks more complicated and complex towards the audience. I used my whole body to create a 2D square as an element in my piece of chorography.  Additionally, another way I adapted a pattern was a zig zag line, I imagine how I could use different body parts to allow me to create this without it looking like a zig zag line, this took a lot of thought process. However, once I created movement to each shape and pattern, I then fixed them together in order for them to flow and look like a complicated piece of choreography.

To adapt this movement further you could link other elements of choreographic processes to this one to create more complex movement with a further meaning in the piece. Adding music to these elements will also allow the audience to interpret a narrative based on the movement you’ve included in the piece.