REHEARSAL 3 - 27/03/2024

This ended up being a very short rehearsal as both year groups ended up having 1-1s during the rehearsal time we had booked out, so I spent the time with Emily on her solo parts we made in rehearsal 1. We developed the phrase, drawing out the contractions and softness and adding an extra turn to add weightlessness. I then asked her to keep repeating the phrase, starting to speed up but still moving with her breath to maintain contractions, almost like her heart rate is increasing and breathing is becoming more panicked, subsequently making the movement more frantic; this is something I want to play with in the emotional climax of the work, but I'm not sure which dancer or who's material I want to use yet. I'm leaning towards both cyclical phrases being repeated at consistent and erratic speeds/tempos, but only one of them working themselves to exhaustion, probably Tilly in terms of the sharp and linear nature of her movement style.

Video of Emily's Phrase after further development: 

We then went on to create a version of this material on her knees, as I wanted to have an option of changing up levels but still having recognisable choreographic motifs throughout the piece. I set Tilly the task of doing the same for her phrase over the Easter Break.

Video of Emily's Phrase on Knees: