After changing to a different stimulus of a monologue by Shakespeare 'The Winter's Tale' (portraying the character Leontes) due to difficulty of the other stimulus I quickly made progress and completed my movement.
The monologue is about a power King who's insecurities of the things he can't control such as his wife overwhelm him and he spirals down a paranoid jealous path, eventually concluding in him believing the child his wife bears isn't his.
Research into the emotion taught me that jealously can cause physical and emotional distress and a destructive attitude. I also learnt that communication is the key to overcoming the feeling, something this monologue lacks as it's supposed to be Leontes talking to his friend about his feelings.
I wanted to make the movement symbolic of his feelings, although jealously is a difficult emotion to portray through movement, let alone Shakespearian dialogue I experimented with a range of different movements, dynamics and choreographic devices to show distress and madness, the negative effects of jealousy.
A few choreographic devices I wanted to use was repetition and retrograde, showing slowly how he's going mad. I did incorporate these devices into the dance more and more through the monologue to show the character development from a King addressing his feelings, to a mad King who's insecurity of the things he can't control have taken over his mind.
The movement I created for the piece is over exaggerated movement by people in power, appropriate arm gestures, travelling in a high stride of status and strict direct movements to justify his power. These movements would develop into sloppier, lower (level) movements, showing his transformation into jealous madness.
One thing I was trying to be wary of whilst creating the sequence was not making him too 'crazy' in movements towards the end of the monologue to keep this variable realistic, jealousy is a build up and I wanted to show the steps of that in the monologue, with no apparent conclusion, just a steady path eventually getting steeper.
At first finding more gestures and newer creative approach's for the monologue became a struggle but with the use of repetition and retrograde I managed to further enhance my devised piece.
I think my ideas and intentions of the piece worked to an extent, without a knowing that it was about jealousy I think audiences would end up with a very different conclusion. I would be intrigued as to what others who didn't know the stimulus thought.
The feedback I did receive from my peers and teachers was mostly positive, 'good use of pace', but with good constructive criticism which I took into account such as greater use of levels which I added towards the end of the monologue.
The movement I created for the piece is over exaggerated movement by people in power, appropriate arm gestures, travelling in a high stride of status and strict direct movements to justify his power. These movements would develop into sloppier, lower (level) movements, showing his transformation into jealous madness.
One thing I was trying to be wary of whilst creating the sequence was not making him too 'crazy' in movements towards the end of the monologue to keep this variable realistic, jealousy is a build up and I wanted to show the steps of that in the monologue, with no apparent conclusion, just a steady path eventually getting steeper.
At first finding more gestures and newer creative approach's for the monologue became a struggle but with the use of repetition and retrograde I managed to further enhance my devised piece.
I think my ideas and intentions of the piece worked to an extent, without a knowing that it was about jealousy I think audiences would end up with a very different conclusion. I would be intrigued as to what others who didn't know the stimulus thought.
The feedback I did receive from my peers and teachers was mostly positive, 'good use of pace', but with good constructive criticism which I took into account such as greater use of levels which I added towards the end of the monologue.
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