Choreography of music. Process of creation according to the principles of plastique animée on the example of music by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 'Kleines Requiem für eine Polka op. 66', choreography created by Barbara Dutkiewicz and Iga Eckert

Plastique animée is a very specific, original, useful but also demanding and challenging way of working with music and movement. It allows us to experience the content of music, both structure of music and expression. It also requires a lot of intellectual, emotional and physical effort in mastering movement technique of music choreography material and memorizing it. In the article the process of creative choreographic work on a large orchestral piece consisting of several different parts has been analyzed and described. Each part of the work  became a pretext to conduct the creative process in a slightly different way and to tackle other musical and compositional issues which became the key elements in the process of composing movement to music. This work had both artistic and educational aspect and was performed by two teams of students from Poland and Austria. The main idea was to share a specific intellectual achievement of the Polish Eurhythmics School in the field of plastique animée.

Photos and videos which are an integral part of this text have been attached.

ISBN  978-83-963687-3-7

The article is supplemented by four videos:

- Video no. 1  ’Motif, phrase in working on music choreography’ by Barbara Dutkiewicz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7922029

- Video no 2. ’Exercises with polymetric structure in working on music choreography’ by Iga Eckert and Barbara Dutkiewicz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7916295 

- Video no. 3 ’Movement stylization and multi planarity in working on music choreography’ by Barbara Dutkiewicz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7922104

- Video no. 4  'A short exercise on body awareness - movement technique in working on music choreography’ by Barbara Dutkiewicz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7916598

This article and videos are published on the digital platform "Atlas of Eurhythmics"  https://www.kmh.se/in-english/atlas-of-eurhythmics/results-from-the-project.html  at modul: "Plastique animée - tradition and contemporary performing".