Within her eyes

• choreographic approach


  uses choreography from there we have been , improvisation tasks - not looking at eachother , spiral around each other, collaboration
• stimulus

  love and loss, dependency and loyalty , longing and memory , idea that they can never be together, personal experiences and well known narratives, love story with a twist
• choreographic intent

  abstract love story, creating a dance for film , keeping the female off the floor , opening and closing movements, tender mood
• structure


  prologue followed by 6 continuous sections
• aural setting


  electronic elements with string and piano creating a hanuting atmosphere, distant rumble,sudden pauses in silence, wind , ominous strings, gradually gets louder, continuous low note
• costume


  every day clothes, female wears a wrap around beige skirt and shirt , the male dancer wears a khaki jumper and jeans, the darkness contrasted with the lightness adds an allusion to her floating on him
• lighting


  natural lighting , gets darker throughout piece, darker setting towards end shows intimacy, at the end it looks like an eye closing
• performance environment


  site sensitive and dance for camera, film starts very far away from the dancers giving the feelings they are completely isolated , as the dancers relationship grows closer so does the camera but it maintains a distance until they first look at each other, majority of the film filmed on a camera track so smooth quality
• staging / set


  remote locations shows isolation and separation from society, very open landscapes to more intimate settings to show their relationship growing as time passes by. Graveyard, hills , woods , grass , cliff
• motifs


  reaching away , wrapping, lifting
• choreographic devices


  climax, contrast , repetittion
• style


  contemporary contact
• choregograher


  James Cousins
• length of peice


  17 mins
• company 


  James cousins company
• dancers


  2(1male / 1 female)
• movement content


  prologue- walking away slowly solo

  beginning- spiral leaning back at a high level in close proximity im a duet

  moving close-lifts and sudden drops , continuous, contact

  flow one- inclosed , scoop , purposeful, duet

  kneeling- moving him pushing and leaning , looks at him , delicate , contact

  flow two- ripple, release of back , high level , open space , rushed, counterbalance

  floor- low level , curled, hold , press , slow , duet