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Initial ideas, stimuli, and objective of the piece.

With the scope of freedom we have this year deciding on an initial idea for a ten minute choreography was difficult. When you can create based on any subject it seems impossible to pick just one. To decide on one topic I had to give myself some limitations. I knew that the project was solo, therefore the topic had to be something I could express through a single body, it also meant that there had to be enough research to provide stimulus for ten minutes of solo movement (while keeping an audience engaged). Finally it needed to be something I was interested in. There is no way I could research and create ten minutes of movement that would captivate an audience if the topic didn't captivate me.

After considering these points I decided on the topic of AI, artificial intelligence. This is a topic I am interested in, but only know surface level information about. Which means I am curious to delve deeper into the subject to find out more about it. After a discussion with our teacher C.Evans i decided to display a series of motifs, inspired by deeper research, that relate to the chronology of AI development.

After beginning my research I remembered a robot I was interested in as a younger child. A robot created by Honda called ASIMO. My current plan is to fill my first piece of music with movement derived from the development of ASIMO. The second piece of music will be filled with movement inspired by Artificial learning, a process where a computer learns to do a task through iterative trial and error.

My objective throughout all of this is to display a piece with unique movements inspired by a unique subject. And I feel the piece should be as intriguing to myself as it is to the audience each time I perform it.

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