Choreography workshop 4: Expanded and embedded

Through the 4th stage of choreography workshop, I developed the concept of a body being a narrative space (related link: Choreography Workshop II: BodyFilter).

| Expanded body space
The body can be extended through a tool, which is fabric, and this becomes an architectural structure. Here, you are looking at Jonathan manipulating the cloth and his movement alters projection on fabric. The expansion and contraction of the cloth changes the space of projected image.

      

| Integrated expanded body to outer structures
Furthermore, the expanded space is being integrated to outer structure using the fabric embedded in the performance space. In this stage, the expansion and contraction that I mentioned earlier can go further as the fabric itself has a tessellated structure. Jonathan forms a modular structure by manipulating the fabric which is embedded in outside structure. This would allow dancers another possibility to create structural form of fabric and which is more like three dimensional.

Dancer: Jonathan Goddard

 

Film workshop

The good thing about the film workshop with Heiko Kalmbach, German film maker, theatre art director, was that he didn’t only attempt to teach filming techniques but also advised us how to choose the ingredients of film and cook them into one video. Filming material experiments allowed us to observe the essence of the material that we roughly selected for the projects and gave a guidance of selection of the materials.

| Tension & release

| Restriction

| Material tests

Filmed and photographed by Young Eun Kim, Elyse Wong, SueJan Yeong, Helen Fitzgerald, Lynette Liang Hai and Heiko Kalmbach

 

Choreography workshop 3: Virtuality and physicality

     

The third Choreography workshop proceeded as a part of the film workshop with Heiko Kalmbach, German filmmaker and theatre art director. Heiko suggested to develop the performance which had been done with Jonathan at the second workshop (related link: Choreography Workshop II: BodyFilter). After that workshop, I realized that the sense of physicality is important to dancers, as projection is virtual reality. This allows the dancer to feel physical shape and weight of the projected light ball which is moving around his body. Then he exerted the projection mapping again.
Dancer: Renaud Wiser

Dancer: Renaud Wiser (newmovement.org.uk/)

Interim Jury

  

Thank Steve Webb, David McAlmont and Miraj Ahmed for joining in person for the interim jury and Allard and Mauricio via Skype.

Filmed and photographed by Young Eun Kim and SueJan Yeong

Sound workshop II

  

The task of this workshop was to make an assemblage of sound and communicate with musicians in performing the piece. The students can choose any visual or auditory language to design a score of the piece such as video footages, edited sound pieces, or diagrams.

 

I used Korean alphabet and sound effect vocabularies to create a typographic score. Korean alphabet was designed after the shape of throat, mouth and tongue location when you make a sound. Therefore, its sound effect vocabularies intuitively relate to actual sound very well and there are various sound words which imitate sound and even psychological states. As soon as the musicians were informed how Korean were invented and the basic principles of the score, they enthusiastically tried to play the piece with their own voice under the direction of Mauricio Pauly, contemporary music composer and part time tutor for the course and me. After a few vocal trials, they played it with their instruments with out practice. You could see how visual image could transfer to sound. It is important that physically understanding the sound can greatly influence actual performance.

You could see how visual image could transfer to sound. It is important that physically understanding the sound can greatly influence actual performance.

Filmed by SueJan Yeong and Helen Fitzgerald
Edited by Young Eun Kim
Musicians: Distractfold Ensemble
distractfold.org.uk
Related link: distractfold.org.uk/?project=df-wrkshp-aais-15-11-2012