Week 5 -Stimuli

Choreography development-Stimuli ideas

In today’s lesson we looked at the different given stimuli and develop ideas for our own choreography. We were given eight different stimuli to look into in further detail to help develop our own ideas and give us a starting base to interpret on our own choreography.

One of the stimulus photos that captured my eyes is the one of a young girl holding a gun. This photo had many ways in which you could interpret. Firstly, it shows how conflict effects even the youngest of people and also emphasis how big an impact conflict has on today's society. I think it’s a very unusual photo due it being a young girl and its not typical as it shows a switch of gender roles. A way in which you could show your ideas through the choreography is to highlight your emotions of conflict and to show the fear of how society is turning out.  Another way which you could look at it would be the idea that childhood games have changed to become reality.

A second stimulus I thought was interesting was the photo of DNA and this one photo has loads of different elements you could interpret into movement and different motifs. Firstly, one way I thought about is the building blocks are how we made and how you get 50% of characteristics of your mum and 50% of your dad. Linking to this DNA is the building blocks to our personalities and traits which we grow up to have. I feel as though a way you could interpret the 50% way is having two different motifs which are completely opposite to each other to show how the different characteristics are and then how they are blended together. Also, the picture has many intriqet shapes which you could adapt in your movement and the different patterns link to different characteristics. You can also interpret this stimulus in many different variations which allows more aspects to your choreography.

A third stimulus which really caught my eye was the canvas painting of a boy with the top part of his head is a blank space. One of the reasons I was drawn to this picture was you could link it to being whitewashed and having no mind linking to being cleaned of memories and having nothing to recall on. It can also link more towards a serious topic in todays society of Mental Health and the emptiness it makes you feel and the feeling of loneliness. Another way in which you can interpret this is the fact a vision he has seen may f been so damaging that he can no longer see it or have any memory towards it- which can also link to people who are blind and the difficulty they face. The interpretation of this stimulus can be varied which is why it appeals to me so much.

The other stimuli we looked at are below: