Collaborative Choreography: An Approach to Making (Conversations with New Art Club)

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AN APPROACH TO MAKING: CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW ART CLUB

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The links to videos document a series of interviews with [extra href=”http://newartclub.org/” title=”New Art Club” info=”popover” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”Visit the New Art Club website” ] New Art Club [/extra] (Pete Shenton and Tom Roden). Examples of an intra-disciplinary process as a choreographic model in the professional dance context are rarely documented, so the interviews help the listener understand something about the process of making choreography collaboratively.

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Questions put to Tom and Pete are informed by many of the issues and situations that most students of dance — at some point or other studying in HE — have found themselves reflecting on or having to deal with in a choreographic context. The concerns that students experience in the context of making work together are not a million miles away from those that many professional practitioners have and need to engage with to sustain healthy working partnerships and the demands of a portfolio career.

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Starting up: Rules, Expectations and Organisation

1. Why did you want to work together?
2. Do you have any ground rules?
3. What do you expect from each other?
4. How do you manage your time? / How do you organise your schedule?

Being Creative Collaboratively

1. Part 1 Stages
   1. How do you put yourself in the right frame of mind to be creative?
   2. Where do your ideas come from and what influences them?
   3. How do you know when something is not working?
   4. What are your attitudes to problem solving?
   5. What determines the structure of the final show?
   6. Does selecting the material involve compromise?
2. Part 2 Choreographic methods
   1. What key methods influence your choreographic process?
      • Method 1 – When to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’
      • Method 2 – Reflecting back
      • Method 3 – Disney Dream Strategy – Realising/Evaluating
      • Method 4 – Drafting and re-drafting
3. Part 3 Time apart
   1. Is the time you spend apart, part of the creative process?
   2. Do you set each other things to do?
   3. How do you deal with the ideas you bring back?
4. Part 4 Disagreement
   1. Is disagreement a feature of you collaboration?
   2. Has disagreement ever become destructive?

Valuing Collaboration

1. What have you learnt from working with each other?
2. What has been the value of working in collaboration?
3. Do you ever feel creatively compromised as an individual?
4. Is it important to maintain an individual profile?

Sustaining and Maintaining Collaboration

1. What makes collaboration less successful?
2. Why do you still choose to collaborate?
3. Does collaboration affect your friendship?
4. How do you maintain professionalism?
5. What is essential to collaborative choreography?

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