You Make Me

Within the first month back at Rubicon, I was given the opportunity to create and develop a personal performance project, a solo. I decided to use this as a way to create a piece that I could use in auditions to help showcase my key skills in my specialism and let potential employers and directors know I can not only dance with technique in mind but also create interesting choreographic projects. My aim for this particular project is to create a solo that focuses on using as many different levels of the music chosen as possible. When given this project, we were also given a stimulus to use, which was music. Because of this, I decided to take it very literally and use every level of the music, including the lyrics, to help in my creative process and allow it to influence me and certain moves I do, including gestures and the tempo of sections within the piece. I will achieve this by using levels such as percussion to aid me in doing faster and sharper movements and the melody to help me with doing more held and sustained ones, while not allowing this to restrict me as I go against the melody and the beats, creating interesting sections of contrast in the process. However, one thing is certain about what I wish to do, and that is to create shapes of hearts throughout the piece in order to have them relate to the lyrics and the meaning of the song. As Christmas was approaching, all of the students at Rubicon Dance, including myself, were given the opportunity to perform the solos that we had spent the last couple of months creating and expanding on in our annual Christmas sharing. This is where we can invite family and friends to join us throughout the day and show them what we do on a daily basis. Although my solo was still unfinished by the time of the sharing, that didn’t stop me from performing what I had. This particular recording isn’t of the performance during the actual sharing, but one I took later on in the evening once everyone else had left. Music credit - 'Fallin (Adrenaline)' by Why Don't We (Edited to have extra white noise during the beginning and end)