CHOREOGRAPHING

Well, we are finally at the choreography stage....yipee!! Although i do think we may have to re-map the suit still. When we listened to the samples through the midi suit and after changing the patch to allow the samples to play without interruption, we realised that we may not have to re-map the suit. By the time one movement is complete, the first sample that was activated is the only one to have been played. This may, however, cause us problems with the activation of the other samples but we will have to see how many are triggered with the movement we do.
We began to choreograph the para para sequence. I don't want it to be like a conventional pop style dance or as cheesey as the Ganguro girls' dance so i am basing the movement with aspects of the Little Red Riding Hood story in mind and creating some contemporary/quirky sequences. We need to keep the dance fairly simple for a few reasons. Firstly, Nicola has never danced so it would be ridiculous to choreograph a hard sequence and expect her to learn it well. Secondly, we need to perform it in unison like that of the para para so keeping it mostly simple will allow us to perform well. Finally, the movement is predicting the order of the samples so complex movement is not needed and will affect our control. I recorded the dance sequence we have so far and can be viewed below.
Nicola and i discussed a little bit about the actual video. We thought about having some text projected onto us, the LRRH story that we abstracted to create the vocal lines. I want the dance, song, music, video and costume all to be connected and interdependent of each other.