Evaluation

 EVALUATION

In my evaluation I will be relaying back on the beginning and end process of my choreographic piece, discussing how I have overcome and dealt with certain challenges that I have come across alongside the benefits that have taken with my choreography. 

From the beginning process, I had struggled to create a definte idea of what I wanted my choreography to be about as I wanted to find a theme/stimulus that would have sections to it instead of an emotional invested piece as I find it difficult to express characters and feelings whilst dancing. As mentioned in a previous blog, after discussing with my tutor in a further 1-1, I gathered a few ideas I could research into regarding to my own passions and interests outside of dance. After deciding on a final stimuli, I went into further depth into on the 'Venus de Milo' referencing to its history, texture and any other stories I could gather and find what I can apply and create into movement. Reflecting back to the end of the choreography process, I wasn't as confident as I wanted to be however, all the information and resources  I researched and analysed has been very beneficial towards my choreography and have helped me achieve the highest personally.

I have experienced many accomplishments as well as challenges leading up to my final performance which have definitely enhanced me as a choreographer now and will benefit me in future choreography situations. With having to experience missing a whole week of time to create and practice my movement to having breakthroughs such as having a confident and clear ending to my piece has made the overall journey stressful yet successful. Looking ahead into the furture, there are definitely things I will take into account for doing differently for example; having the struggle of not having a confirmed idea of what my choreography was going to be about did hinder my process as the time I had to choose the stimulus could have been time to create movements and motif's. The advice and lesson I will take from this will to be to try and decide on a concrete idea straight away to give myself enough time for the creative process.

In my opinion, choreographing this 10 minute solo as well as creating a 3 minute solo and a 10 minute piece in the previous years, this overall process has been by far the most difficult and challenging experience. I found that having myself make all the decisions was quite daunting and prefer to have other people contribute as others can come up with ideas and movement that I may have never thought of. Having myself be completely in charge was slightly overwhelming but have learnt from this that I need to have more trust and confidence in myself instead of doubting my choreographic ability as now being at the end of this process, I have created a successful piece.