Duet Feedback

On Friday 11th March, me and Alex had our duet progress showing. We performed what we had of our duet infront of our peers and tutor Katye Coe. The main thing I find helpful with progress showing is that we recieve feedback. We asked whether our idea of indivuality was clear throughout the piece and also if our choreographic processes worked. The general feedback we recieved informed us that our idea is quite clear throughout and our choreographic process with the phrases is a really clear structure. Katye also gave us some very useful feedback: she said she felt the contact improvisation was a red herring and that we should focus on repeating and developing our movement. I agree with this as I now feel that the contact work didn't sit as well with our ideas. She also informed us that just by running through the space we were showing our differences which we hadn't even thought about due to its simplicity. Another point was that the movement was too much like the phrases we do in studio practice and that we need to move away from this movement into something more complex. We chose something simple so that we coulod focus more on developing it however I agree that we could make it more complex and more our own material that has more of a meaning behind it.
Other ideas to think about was 'costume' . Katye suggested it would be interesting if we had different layers of clothing on and as we repeat and develop the movement we take a layer off. We could begin with same colours and then this changes as we change the movement to show our personality. I really liked this idea because one of the words we chose to begin with was colour which we can tie in with this. And also adding in speech. I'm not sure of the speech idea as I wouldn'tknow what to say but I guess once we develop our duet that might change.