Group Forms w/ Crystal Michelle Perkins
Fieldwork Assignments
For my composition class with Crystal Perkins, she has asked us to examine the world (i.e specific tasks she ask us to look up) and create a score from that. This score will then be used to create a piece on multiple bodies on the Tuesdays of the following week, understanding that this assignment was given the Friday before and we have the entire weekend to look up the information.
Movement Bank Assignments
The movement bank assignments in this class focus around a specific task ask from Crystal Perkins. We would then create 30 – 90 seconds worth of material that will be explored upon in the Thursday class of that week.
Week 1 (1/15/19)
Our assignment was to look up animals that flock. 
For me, naturally, I go to birds, not because they flock but because I have a natural calling to birds. So I decided to look up a close relative, the Penguin. I realized that penguins are an interesting group of creatures. More graceful in water than they are on land but very protective and move as a huge collective. Below are the notes that I took from watching a few videos. My biggest inspiration was the March of the Penguins Trailer.
(1/17/19)
This movement bank was focused around canon. The main focus is the movement that is created to be used in a canon. Below is the movement that I created that works with an accumulation of movement and a square shape that will eventually turn into itself when the canon begins and moves along.
Week 2/3
(1/22/19) This week fieldwork focuses on movement in relationship to shape (form, design, architecture, sculpture). I decided to look up architecture related to tensegrity, which 
focuses on buildings that stand up on there own. I also thought about how this creates layers and how these layers could be reenacting on the body and on multiple bodies. More so about the feeling of layers on bodies in the abstract/feeling sense of tensegrity. In a literal sense, I came across the dome shape idea and utilizing the ways to push off a way to create the 3-dimensional shape of the architecture.
(1/24/19) Movement Bank
This weeks movement bank focused on slow motion movement. I wanted to focus on my arms because I enjoy seeing the articulation in the spine and muscles of the back.
Week 4
(2/5/19) This weeks fieldwork focused on entrances and exit. We were asked to sit in a library and listen to music. As we listened, we would watch people enter and exit the space and what it means to do that. The biggest thing I noticed with this is the way someone enters and exits is based on the frame given. The frame is created based on the set and sturdy things in the space. Those things can be pillars, architecture, the frame cut off, or bodies in space that stick to one spot. So I played with that idea as I wrote. 
For my movement bank, I focused on the idea of creating a frame and moving in and out of that set frame. I created a set phrase and randomly placed my phone in a room. Having the phone facing me, I played with my movement in relationship to the cameras set frame and naturally let the entrances and exits happen. Here is what happened:
Week 5
(2/19/19)
Fieldwork – This week, we got to focus on our own directions. For my field work, I went to go see SeaBus dance at CDT. As much as the movement choices were not my style, I was intrigued by a series of movement on the floor. They were moving like an amoeba while contained to space. The movement choices they had allowed them to use backspace, while continuously moving. When they did stop, it was to come back together with breath. Following is the set up I saw by the dancers and my take on how the movement flowed.
(2/21/19)
Movement Bank – Since this week was free ranged, I wanted to focus on the floor concept that I saw at SeaBus. I allowed myself to create in a contained space – the green room floor surrounded by chairs and tables. Once I was finished, I moved the phrase into the hallway so I could continue to use small spaces in order to record it. I started one way which didn’t work but I ended up moving the phrase and it worked better. Following is my exploration with “simple” and controlled floor work.
Week 6
(3/5/19)
Fieldwork – Relationships in Motion and Context
We are supposed to research images or videos of relationships and weight sharing in cultural context. We were open to thinking about protest marches, religious ceremony, rites of passage, political movements, etc.
I chose to look at a baptism because they are very inclusive and bring the community around for a sacred moment. I wanted to focus on the progression aspect of a baptism which would mean entering a space, the internal thoughts leading up to the baptism. The sudden pause for the preacher to speak, to the dunking, and finally rejoicing at the end. I also wanted to pay attention to what happens in those shorts seconds of being submerged in the water and the washing away of one life and coming back up into the other. Following is my score I created and some notes on what I have seen in videos and pictures of a baptism.
Movement Bank – I took the baptism and created a progressive feel of a baptism. The walking in and getting dressed. Stepping into the water and the internal feeling of the water being cold. Once that happens, there is a reference to how some people are submerged. Some people are over the chest and others have a towel over their face. Then there is a reference to the feeling in the water and what happens. I also wanted to showcase happiness right after being baptized and the praise in it. Below is the video I created.
Week 7
(3/21/19)
We spent time going over our process journals and looking back through our videos. We were supposed to meditate on all our group forms making experiences workshops, movement banks, field studies, articles, other classes, collaborative work, perspective, power, identity, form, etc. and write a short response. This what I wrote down in my journey to grasp a better understanding of my group making, and general composition process.
Brianna Rhodes 