The first step to this project was coming up with an idea that could be easily incorporated with choreography whilst having a strong concept. My immediate idea was to create a choreography with the 3 states of matter, since it is physically impossible for them to dance in our physical world, by themselves. As humans, we are a combination of these 3 states of matter and not just one. The same goes for all living beings on the planet. Therefore, I want to use a digital medium (VR) to help create that otherwise impossible vision.
Here is a draft of my first idea.
I decided to pair up with Ana for this project since we have a similar concept and have never worked as a group before. Our vision revolves around the three states of matter, and how they move in space. Since they make up human beings, it is almost like deconstructing what makes us human and therefore deconstructing what makes dance.
It would be interesting to see how dance can interpret the physical states’ properties and interactions. To do this, we will select some students from LCDS and hopefully create something great.
Our Group
- Ana – LCC
- Margarida – LCC
- Lewis – LCDS
- Juliette – LCDS
- Ava – LCDS
- Vee – LCDS
Update
There was a slight change of planes regarding our concept, after our first session at LCDS. Since we have 5 dance students, we had to find a way to incorporate the three states of matter into something a little bit more inclusive of the current number of group members we have. Therefore, we want to instead incorporate the idea of the 3 states of matter with the 4 elements + 1 extra element that ties them together. We thought this would still include the first idea, while also exploring an extremely interesting and inherently human concept, the 4 elements. We also thought the idea of the 3 states of matter was very factual and somewhat cold. However, having them be the four elements instead, adds some warmth and familiarity to our concept.
We would like to explore their movement through space as well as possible interactions. As a result, Ana and I started discussing how this could happen and what medium we would use for our final presentation. To better illustrate what we came up with, I drew a storyboard.
For our fifth element, we later decided to go with something that depicted a human being, but at the same time, not quite. Since the idea of the four elements is merely a human-created concept, our existence ties all of these elements together. Furthermore, their physical states are all part of our existence as physical beings, therefore we can also suggest that they somehow represent us or make us whole. Either way, we will include this final character. But instead of human skin or a general human figure, we want something that we can play around a bit more (special effects-wise). So, this human would be more of a metaphysical representation, rather than an actual person.
Medium
We pretty much came to a consensus right away regarding the medium we’d use for this project. We feel that a VR video will be the best option. Our plan is to have the dancers surrounding the viewer in a circle and each element will be performing their choreography at the same time. This will create a very immersive effect which also allows the viewer to get an even closer look at each character’s properties and movements throughout the performance.
Inspiration and references
Other Links
1 – https://youtu.be/l39MygIs84E
2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDXknaUixQ