My stimulus and further research
I want to achieve a clear story line across to the audience and showcase intriguing choreography. The story line as previously explained in my past blogs is the gradual acceptance of aging and the struggles of someone’s ability slowly decreasing over the years. I feel the choreography should have a sense of mystery but also simplicity because the stimulus I’m using makes me feel curious yet pure and simple. The stimulus makes me feel this way because there is nothing complicated occurring in the picture, only a Polaroid picture of a woman who has tears in her skin to reveal aged skin.(P//)
I selected this stimulus because I thought it would be interesting to create choreography based around the idea of losing your ability to take on normal day activities, because of age. To go into further detail, I think the stereotype of aging is interesting because as a young person I feel as though we view elder people as fragile and forgetful. However, in this piece I think it would be intriguing to go against that stereotype and send a message to the audience that growing old isn’t always a bad thing and you can still enjoy life even if you may not be able to do things you could do when you were younger. (P//)
I have conducted research in to how it may feel for a person to develop into old age and look at articles to find a better understanding of feeling what it’s like to lose independence and rely on family. In an article I looked at, it stated that people above the age of 60 become more agreeable and happier as they get older, even though scientists don’t know an in-depth reason for this, they do know that it has a link to having a better control on their emotions (Felson.S, 2020). In a survey carried out by Age UK between 2009 to 2015, 6 to 13 percent of elderly people felt consistently lonely(Davidson.S, Rossall.P, 2015). I found this resource very useful as loneliness wasn’t an aspect of aging I consider for my piece, and now that I have researched into this I would like to add some movements that portray feeling isolated.(P//)
I would like the audience to feel the simplicity that I felt when first analysing the stimulus. I want to deliver this by using simple gestures, actions and movements that capture the audience’s attention by using repetition of gestures. Throughout the choreography I would like there to be moments of unsteadiness to represent the loss of agility, so that the character can deliver the storyline across. Then towards the end I want the audience to feel almost the same as how they did at the start, to represent the feeling of finding yourself again and that growing old isn’t a negative stage in life. To do this I will show this by using similar movements and gestures as I have previously used, still using the bad posture and crooked body parts to show the old age.(P//)
Here below is a picture of my stimulus which my anotations of my initial thoughts and ideas on:
(Cosba,lnd )
Refrences:
Cosba, L(n.d). Layered PolaroidPicture.[Image] Availiable at:
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