Infra GCSE Resource
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ARTIST PROCESSES<br />
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RESEARCH<br />
When creating a new work Wayne McGregor’s choreographic process is fuelled<br />
by an important research phase. This might include exploring and researching<br />
main themes and concepts, exchanging ideas with collaborators and observing<br />
and casting dancers.<br />
McGregor undertakes exhaustive research, foraging for information before<br />
physically working with the dancers. He uses resources such as:<br />
Books / The internet / Newspaper and journal articles /<br />
Music / Visual images and sculptures in galleries /<br />
Observations of people<br />
Often he will create a resource bank of all of the key pictures, acoustic ideas<br />
and text that will feed the creative process and provide stimuli for the work.<br />
The importance of the depth and quality of research is evident in how<br />
McGregor uses the pictures in the creative process. He states that he is<br />
‘…not trying to describe the stimuli, I’m not trying to take a particular<br />
picture and represent that on stage but they are all part of this building<br />
an imagination for a work and they then can’t help but come out while you<br />
are making something’.<br />
Wayne McGregor in interview, 2016<br />
McGregor doesn’t have any rules in his methodology for selecting a stimulus.<br />
Instead, he emphasizes the importance of choosing something that inspires<br />
and charges him in some way. He encourages young choreographers to select<br />
and explore something that truly inspires them and not to worry about what<br />
others think.<br />
Eric Underwood and<br />
Melissa Hamilton in <strong>Infra</strong>.<br />
©ROH/Bill Cooper, 2010
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