Working in collaboration with the Choreographer Barbara
Polak was the most challenging part of the task as a whole, both having
different native languages mine being English and Barbara`s being Polish created
a language barrier, it was quite clear that the communication barrier
was both ways right from the start as I didn’t haven’t a clear understanding of
Barbara`s creative ideas or her explanations, which resulted in a lot of
confusion and then various kinds of conflicts, leading to having to spend
additional time resolving the confusion`s, which had a negative effect on
building a good working relationship between us which proved stressful and tiring.
To try and resolve the communication
issue I focused on trying different communication methods for example;
drawing diagrams to illustrate my meanings also talking clearly and slowly and
patiently tried not to rush through my communication in the hope that Barbara
would have a clearer understanding of my meanings and interpretations this took
time and patience but positively helped me develop my communication skills when
communicating with a foreign speaker.
My role as stager involved finding the music for each
section of the piece, choosing the costumes and organizing the lighting,
working on each section individually, me and Barbara met to discuss are
creative ideas, deciding between us what would look and sound best to go with
her Choreography was exciting however we both had completely different visions
and creative minds which highlighted some of the key challenges that we faced
working together , a lot of the time these
differences caused tension and conflict between us, the first obstacle we faced
was deciding upon the music for each section , given the type and theme of
music explained by Barbara of what she wanted for each section of the routine
in collaboration with the choreography, i
researched various artists and
melodies for each section I presented Barbara with a list of music suggestions,
which I believed to be compatible with
each section, however my choices weren’t to Barbara`s taste in music and
she explained to me the dancers couldn’t dance to any of my selection, so I had
to rethink my choices as they weren’t appropriate for the sections, at this
point it was clear that we were both going to have to compromise the music
choice decisions as I wanted Barbara and the dancers to be happy and comfortable
dancing to the music as well as being happy with my final choice of music, to
do this Barbara sent me some music idea`s
which I listened to carefully then decided upon the music, this method
worked well for both of us, Choosing the costumes for
the dancers we went shopping together which had a positive outcome,
together we discussed how we wanted the dancers to look and how the costumes
needed to be adjustable to the dancers flexibility, going shopping together
helped break down the communication barrier and we were able to build a more
professional and personal relationship. Overall because are artistic ideas were
miles apart I found it a real struggle to
work alongside Barbara throughout the whole process,
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