Erin Taylor - Advanced Independent Solo Choreography (MU60362O)

When choreographing my final section, I faced the challenge of how to formulate an ending. To overcome this challenge, I started by asking myself the question:  Do I build up to a climax? My stimuli ‘The butterfly affect / Chaos theory’ explains how a small change can lead to larger consequences, something forming out of nothing. For example, a butterfly flapping its wings and generating enough wind to cause a tornado. In my choreography showing, the audience stated that they expected an explosion of movement to happen next, a ticking time bomb ready to blow up.  I wondered whether I wanted to have an expected ending like this or could I show chaos in another way? Not uncontrolled, loose, almost throwing away each of my movements but showing internal chaos by creating insular, restricted, contained choreography, like the nucleus of the tornado. A whirlwind or storm with a fury of steps.  I wanted to create original movement that allowed me to show struggle without losing ...

Wayne McGregor created Infra for The Royal Ballet in 2008 and was inspired by the words ‘vide infra’ meaning to see below. The piece is about the emotions that are not always visible when people communicate with each other and go about their day to day lives. Influenced by the London bombings of 2005, it explores how the city behaved as a result. People being too busy, too scared and wrapped up in their own world to interact and how things around you go unnoticed. McGregor wanted the piece to be very much about inference, a conclusion reached from evidence and reasoning. I understand this to mean an exploration of movement and emotion that uses the body to outwardly demonstrate what has been learnt from your thoughts, something you cannot explain or are too afraid to talk about. He worked with Max Richter to create a ‘piece that reveals an emotive journey across oscillating individual and societal landscapes.’ (Max Richter, 2010) exploring how the world around us and certain events can...