Week 3 - Assessment Study 1 (Choreographing Light)

This assessment was the next progressional step after the two weeks we've had so far.

For part of this session, we all had to perform and another part we had to assess. I enjoyed doing both but I feel that assessing is very difficult. Especially because you have to assess your peers and we've all been together for two years and know each other well. You have to put that aside from your mind and look at the dance as something seperate to the friendships you've created and think about all the criteria and how the dance fulfills it. Perhaps splitting the emotional attachment you have with the people and to evaluate the developing resourceful choreographers instead is the most difficult part. It would be much easier to mark a "random" person's dance.

Assessment Criteria:

1. Evidence of creativity, imagination and experimentation in choreographing time, light, stillness, sound/ambience (and movement*)

2. Evidence of considering the entire experience of the audience, and degree to which to which this contributed to the form-content of the work

* How is this movement appropriate and sensitive to the work’s form-content?

Mark out of 20.

I enjoyed all the pieces I saw and much prefered just being able to take the works for what they were and really appreciate them rather than having to critique them.

One of the criticisms that we felt was fair was the fact that the studio were we had placed our piece wasn't pitch black and there was still a slight amount of light, enough to make out a few shadows. Also, how do you signify and ending when a piece's main focus is use of light?? Its very difficult to distinguish and the only way I can think of now would be to run over to the light switch and turn on the worker (fluorescent) lights.