29/01/14

Today we was back from Christmas Holidays , therefore we needed to carry on with our choreography and recapping on the movement we had already came up with. With my group I feel that there was no problems to obstruct us from starting any choreography, we all interpreted and had a variety of ideas that we started to choreograph to and bounce ideas from one another.

Today we still researched into different aspects through the development we had, we needed a range of statistics as well as a steady structure, due to no other group having this I felt that Tsuami story was the best idea as it would be original , when we got our structure we then started to develop the ability of how Tsnumai.s were created, were they happen, this is when the research begun and the answers were that the biggest one yet was Thailand and you are never aware that one is going to happen, because of this it therefore ment that a lot of individuals are normally abroad, touristing their family holiday when one of these strikes. From the research we could then develop fully onto our abilitys and respond to the research through choreography.

I am happy with the group that I have got and feel there is a range of abilities for this piece and can be a great piece if we all put the same level of energy and work hard.

28.5.14

Choreographic principles 

Today was about cleaning all the choreography as well as sorting the start of the choreography's timeing. 

There is 1 count of 8 and 1 count of 6 that we need to choreograph ready to start the routine. However we thought of creating a tableaux for the first count of 8 and then move on the second count. 

This works well in relation to the structure so the audience find it much more easier to understand. 

The tableaux we created was in vision of a photo we seen previous in imagination of what a family do on the beach, therefore the 2 kids are drawing in the sand while the mother is watching and praising them, while the farther does his own thing. 

After the 1x8 we then go into performance were the father spots the Tsunami and mother looks upon the figure in the distance. 

This then fits perfectly to get into positions for the starting position, I feel with the tableaux it shows a much more clear understanding of what's happening narrative wise. 

Today was progressed and we had all the choreography finished with correct timeing when showing Kat and peers we got told we have a strong piece with a strong structure this lifted my self esteem and enjoy performing this piece. However EMOTIONS and character need to be used extremely, trying to put myself in that situation. 

Expressions and skills from acting need to be interpreted for this piece. 

At the end we shown our piece again with all the corrections and got positive feedback. I just need to look up more to the audience at the end, so I allow an engagement, and so they feel involved and intrigued by the over speech. 

For next week rehearsals; 

Bring costumes we out wearing black leggings and a white top which is being tie dyed blue to represent water / Tsunami. I feel we all need to wear the same as on family holidays they all have that one holiday vocation top they all wear at the same time, the trousers are not going to be leather just wool so it is alot more easier to slide and perform tricks in, expecially the ending when I am sliding on my knees to get on top of a car.  I also need to bring In an old picture do that the audience will be able to see I am holding a picture and understand it alot more. 

Overall today was very successful and I am looking foward to performing this in the show. 

22.5.14

Today we needed to clean each section and work on the duo of myself and Rob. This scene is creating the ending of mother and dad left with no children trying to survive the Tsunami. 

We already started to choreography each section however it was not working we wanted a contemporary based section, therefore we start the section with me and rob running together trying to grab each others hands. 

In this picture it shows the emotions of us staring at each other trying to grab gold of each other. 

We firstly tried this however with development we thought starting with this on a diagonal and then running together. 

I then run towards Robbie showing the structure iof the Tsunami pushing me in force, however with the lift I need to make sure I am high up with straight posture to allow myself to go higher, and show a more positive picture. After individuals seeing this Chloe suggested to run up towards the stage so that the audience will be able to see a more clear vision and understanding. 

This then develops on to the more emotional side of the ending were we know what is going to happen. We got corrected by moving onto a diagonal so you can see Rob touching my face. This stage will be more emotional, very close and touching sharing last memory's together. The dynamics are very slow, that then changes to sharp movement, with a positive relationship with myself rob and the music due to the tempo changing. 

In development this is ment to be a hug however in correction I need to bend my legs alot more and perform more character/ emotions, making sure the audience understand it is a hug but also not looking awkward when performing. 

Therefore the relationship between myself and Rob needs to be strong and intense, trying to show emotions therefore throughout this piece think about loosing someone so important to you and how you would react, react to this through this piece. 

There will then be a lift which will develop onto the floor were we will both perform solo's, to try escape the Tsunami throughout this piece we need to show alot of tension for the audience. This will then lead onto myself getting onto the black box which is representing a car, depending on time - management as well as commitment we will try to create the look of a car on the black box to make it much more clearer to understand. 

I then look out for my family were I see my husband struggling for my help to get him on board. 

It then develops for me trying to grab my husbands hand. Holding on to dear life trying to rescue him from the Tsunami, however Rob then let's go and it goes into black out we're an overspeach is played when I am just staring at a photo of me and all my family on holiday beforee this Tsunami tortured out holiday. 

I feel the piece is coming alot more effectively and now it is just cleaning each section getting the timeing correct expecially at the start. However I feel it will be ready for the show next week. 

14.5.14

Choreographic principles. 

In today's class Kat performed a different warm up than usual this was helpful to show my individual self and peers that we are capable of performing and coming up with choreography in minutes, by this it had a positive atmosphere after this ready to start my group choreography. 

3 aims for my choreography today are; 

Drill each section 

Recap on the house  section 

Choreograph the ending for myself & rob

Today's lesson was a lot shorter due to having to go to a singing exam, however we want straight into the house so that everyone got the timeing correct for this, once we rehearsed this we then went into all the choreography with the music. 

Rehearsals was success and we only have to clean up the climax and have 2 count of 8 for the ending with me and rob, therefore rehearsals have been called to Monday after 3.45 were we can finish this and show Kat on Thursday with a finished piece. Then all we have to do is drill each section of choreography ready for the show. 

Today was positive and rehearsals with Rosaria helped for our group piece even though we was missing 2 people, however we now need to rehearse from the mirror showing that we all know the choreography and have a good relation with each other with character to show the understanding of our stimuli 'Tsunami'. 

 

8th May 2014

Today our group had motivation, straight away every individual knew what we needed to do to our choreography, however Kat asked us to name 2 tasks that we was going to complete by the end of todays lesson ours were ;

• Change the House choreography
• Start/ Finish the Climax

We therefore did not waste time we started to rehearse the choreography to the cut music, when we got to the climax we counted how much we had left, we was shcoked with how long we actually had ir was 3x8 maximum, therefore we knew we could get this finished today. We already had a starting point of whom was going to be taken first by the Tsunami, this was Honor.
I wanted this section to be poweful, with a range of lifts, jumps, freezes, something different that the audience was not going to expect and because it was the climax, I felt this needed to the most powerful section, this piece was not just about the choreography but also about interpreting each character that everyone had chosen, therefore mine was a mum, So I knew I needed a range of emotions these were ;

• panicing
• stressed
• upset
• angry

Facial expressions for this part were a big intake so the audience would feel involved with the choreography, therefore on one part I  do a Jazz based jump and reachy out to the audience miming  'help' this can look very effective If I use eye contact straight to the audience, showing facial expressions so they know exactly how I feel and feel engaged throughout the whole piece.

One we recapped on all the sections we had, once we felt confident, we walked through the house section remembering about the peers feedback from last week, we all remembered the section that they said we should change, from last week I tried a few house moves out, the house moves I chose I just made alot more powerful and big, engaging the core alot more, making the top half more contemporary because were moving with the music alot more. I showed my peers this section and they liked it so we chose to have this, however we needed a count due to the time managment being of timewith the beat for this section, therefore we chose to put in a shuffle, this therefore then went with the music and looked alot more of the narrative of the tsunami taking us, due to Tsunami's normally taking you from the bottom, legs, therefore the legs need to be powerful, showing this expression and this is what we did, I just kept remembering everyone to exaggerate and extend the leg movements alot more, as this looked alot more effective and not like a choreographed house section, I felt pleased with this section and one we drilled this ongoing throughout the lesson, we then felt at a right stage to start the climax.

Transformations had been developed in the house section, therefore the lines were different this would now effect the order of who got killed, yet we then thought this would still work and we can still go with the order we chose, I felt this actually helped more due to using spacial awareness alot more and more of the space, due to different transitions and more going on than standing in one place, this linked physically with a Tsunami as it will not just stay on one spot it spreads everywere.

Alternatively, we started the Climax, we knew who was going to die first so everyone had one count of 8 to show in choreography that the Tsunami was taking them down, everyone struggled with this, I felt we was thinking to much as we wanted it to be big and energetic, however it looked more effectively when individuals freestyled. The Tsuami is very dramatic and touching on a section that Billie and Honor get taken away due to them having a moment were they grab on to each other and hug for the last time. When watching this the emotions are dramatic and emotional, therefore I hope the audience feel the same for this.

At the end is were Rob will die however due to the change in music this is very sad, slow and an upsetting atmosphere, therefore everyone felt that Rob should be taken away, while myself is hanging onto him with one hand while the strong Tsunami is pulling him away, I want this piece to be dramatic and alot more contemporary, showing emotions until the end, were theres that slight pause at the end were we both look directly emotionally into each others eyes and then 'let go' then there will be an over voice emotionally of the mother explaining sadly what has happend.
We have already decided on the costumes, we are representing ' Blur' tops and on each one has a graphic of either clouds, sun and water as this represents, Earth, water, fire for the elements but also each one of these is effected to start a Tsunami.
Also we have already started speaking about the lighting, we want this quite nuetral, with the look of water, like blue and white and we have thought for the ending we want 3 spot lights one of Honor on the ground, seperate to the same with billie and then myself and rob, then blackout, with just the over speach for the ending, as this is very emotional and feel it will emotioanlly and physically touch the audience.

I am pleased of were we have got up to, choreographing wise due to having 3 sections complete out of 4 sections, the climax is sorted aswell as the start, and now we just have 2x8 for the ending, we chose ellen from acting to do the over speech and was very proud of the outcome, I feel possitive and by end of lesson  next thursday our choreography will be complete.

1st may 2014

Todays class we needed to really work on our choreography due to having time off due to Easter Holidays. Therefore we knew were we was with the choreography but due to the amount of time off we needed to recap on each section.

Firstly I felt that the music was a big issue due to starting to put each section into the structure, I  was finding this hard due to having to stop each section to change over the music. Therefore we all sat down and worked out all the counts for the music, this took alot of concerntration, intellectually to make sure this was secure and great time- management. Then we went to jim with the layout of what we wanted, the outcome for the music was positive, therefore I felt there was no longer a barrier stopping us choreographing.
The main outcome for today was to get the music complete, however there is one piece of music that we still needed to choreograph too, we needeed to find a voice clip saying ' breaking news' from the news. However due to finding it so hard to find one we came to a conclusion that It may be easier to find an Actor that will say a voice clips instead, dramatically.

The main areas that we recapped today was the start, due to this all beinig in timeing with each other, so we needed to make sure everyone knew the choreography due to some individuals relying on each other. I feel that soon when the choreography is complete we need  to start dancing away from the mirrors due to relying on them to much and I feel this is showing in the piece, everyone needs to commit and choreograph to the piece, yet this shows who has though/ choreographed which parts due to the stablism and confidents when dancing each section.

After we recapped, we now have got half way and need to start to think about the climax due to this being the main section of when the Tsunami waves come to shore, I feel this section needs to be thrilling with a drenalin,  the dynamics needed to be fierce with alot of force, powerful, fast, energetic with lifts, jumps, everything going on to see the change in dynamics and emotions so the audience will understand what is happening for this section.
Due to transformations, Honor is going to die first from the Tsunami, following Billie, then dramatically Rob at the end, leaving myself, this will be very emotional and sad ending.

Feedback; when the class watched our piece, they made a few comments that we need to interpret and change, the first comment was the House in one section 1x8 the movement is to high up, not house material, and it looks when watching everyone is trying to remember the piece and not dancing this, therefore we need to change this to show Tsunami based with alot of character, each person has a character, mine is a Mother so I need to create my character of a mother that will do anything for her family/ children, therefore will protect or even die for them.
Another peer feedback was to make sure that on sections expecially the first section, we need to hug on a diagonal so that no one is getting covered, and that the  audience can clearly see what each individual is performing physcially.

Next lesson;
Music all cut ready to then start the climax, I feel the climax needs to be started next week and nearly finished due to not having alot of time left.
Alternatively take all the feedback into concideration and change the choreography to make the piece more effectively and so that the peers can see that we have considered their points when showing the development of choreography for next week.

Today I feel that the barrier has now been nocked down as for the past few weeks, the development of the choreography has not positiively increased it has stayed the same negatively, and now there is a few weeks until the show, and I feel if everyone interprets their ideas, as well as use rehearsals effectively then the piece will look amazing and I would love for it to be in the show.

peer analysis

Today I took warm up I felt that I was prepared and because I knew the styles we were going to be performing I made sure that I warmed up the arms, hips and legs incredibly due to performing Milonga and Bollywood.

I felt I was prepared I already had a song so there was no time wasted, I also got everyone involved physically by making it alot more fun and responding to individuals.

The warm up was realistically and was for 7 minutes and I felt this was a reasonable time and was pleased with how everyone interacted and did the warm up, I tried to make it different and run but making sure everyone goes to their fullest potential. 

I liked taking charge and felt that everyone responded to my instructions. 

27/3/14

The devices I have clearly used in my group choreography are ;
Narrative due to our performing being about elements we have thought about natural disasters as well as linking this directly to Earth and Water aswell. 


The area's that need to be developed are ; thinking about what music we will be using for the piece to help show a clear understanding of the structure. 

I am going to resond to this by,

Picking 2 songs of my choice that I feel are in connection with Tsunami. Then sitting down listening to all my groups ideas and songs to see which one will be the most effective. 

Bio

Opal , honour , rob & Billie 

Our group choreography contains a narrative of ' natural disasters, we respond to his by explaining a story of a family go on holiday abroad were a tsunami approaches, during this disaster , the children and father sadly die from the tsunami, and the mum is just left, the choreography will show a clear understanding of the story aswell as fierce dynamics and musicality you would never of thought out, the piece contains a lot of emotions, sharp dynamics and a drenalin lifting you of your seats while watching the piece. 

1st April

Today was a successful day we warmed up outside this was great due to individuals watching us and therefore I felt that I was working harder physically as well as more stronger presentation.

We then had a lesson with Chloe she interprerted a new word called '' which meant backwards. The exercise was to pick a section of the choreography and dance it backwards and then the original choreography way. 

This helped a lot for movement memory as well as movement development at the start I felt I struggled, but when I got Chloe to explain again I felt I fully understood this, each individuals came round the class to watch us, this helped as they gave us positive feedback as well as critism one of the main criticisms was that we needed to interpret emotions throughout the whole piece due to at the moment looking like we are just trying to remember the choreography.

Team work is not a problem in our group, we all share ideas and communicate strongly as a group, therefore I feel that the choreography is naturally developing through a positive time- management. After todays class i feel that it really helped and from this small exercise it has created another 2x count of 8 for our group choreography. Therefore from today,we have now finally got into place the start, 4x of 8 for the climax were we now have an add on of choreography from today, I  am feeling positive with this choreography due to it performing nicely, now we all need to think realistically and work around each other for extra rehearsals and to finish the climax and start the ending due to already having a structure of what we are physically doing for the ending, as there is not a lot of time left.

Alternatively, from the exercise we have taken the 2 lots of 8 from the start and re arranged the movement, so that we start with the original choreography and then rewind, so that we then perform it backwards without realising this realistically works with our piece, due to it being a narrative of ' Tsunami'. Therefore the choreography and musicality aswell as the structure all works nicely in relation with each one.

From todays lesson even though everyone was tired, we did not let this affect us, and all worked efficently with each other, getting a lot of choreography done, you can really see a difference from when we started the main aspect of areas we need to fully develop now is; getting the music completely cut, so that we do not need to keep changing songs throughout performing as this makes it look un organised an sloppy, also I need to create my monologue for the ending and rehearse this ready to add into the choreography. I feel the piece will be rehearsed and ready feeling positive to perform to my peers.

20/3/14

Todays lesson ;

• Develop group choreography 
• Reflect on process and identify improvements 
• continue development of choreography 

Action plan for next lesson to start finding quotes aswell as start writing the ending of the piece when all my family have been killed throughout the tsunami and I am left with nothing at the end except for destroyed family and home.

My strengths so far for our group choreography is that their is team work being taken place at all times, thinking about each others abilities aswell as strong styles that everyone can interpret and take part in the choreography. Everyone is interpreting each others ideas and giving positive opinions from each. When finding music I interpreted a song that I thought everyone would like, we chose from a variety however the climax music is what I responded to choreograph to which is DVBB' Tsunami. eachy Choreographic principles lesson each member is always commited and on time, showing positive time- management for each lesson aswell as outside College times, due to self direct rehearsals that we have set up.

Individually I could develop through emotions showing alot more emotions when dancing due to the narrative about our lives being taken away, getting killed by a Tsunami. I also have chosen to be the speach at the end, therefore I need to create an emotional hitting piece for the end section of the dance, were all my family have been killed and I am just left on my own. I feel a poem or quote about Tsunamis would be effective with an emotional piece about my family, that would start with, ' Did we deserve this'. I need to keep upto date with all blogs, noting down all my research, aswell as pictures and any ongoing evidence in lesson and outside. As a group I feel we need to show a clear structure that needs to flow more into each section due to Kat suggesting it looks to choreographed, therefore I have taken this into consideration and need to develop the relationship between my emotions and the musicality. We also need to use much more devices due to only having, cannon, unison, and different transformations, this also includes different dynamics to show each clear element.

The Devices we have used so far are ;

• Contact
• motif Development
• Floor patterns
• Movement Components
• Falling, Turns
• Unison
• Cannon
• repetition of the motif
• Logical Sequences

Logical sequencing is used during the Tsunami piece, due to listening to the music first and then start to choreograph to the beat, due to it being up tempo and fast, there is alot of different movement componenets that  we can all interpret during this section.
Structure is a Narrative about a Tsunami, family of tourists go on holiday and their is a Tsunami.
Explaining a typical day when on holiday as a familu, kids playing on the beach while the Dad waiters on the mum, while shes catching the rays, until suddenly a tsunami appears, only for dad to see this and show the mother, until suddenly it comes in with the tydes very fast. Showing a clear explaination in the dance of before, during and after.

Action plan;
I need to find quotes and start to write an emotional monologue for the ending of the piece.  As a group we need to work effectively on the Climax/ chorus due to this being fast, fierce sharp with lifts, jumps, tricks and alot more fast movements with each individual in the group. I feel our piece is coming along greatly and looks effective, however we all need to start the climax aswell as everyone interpreting their ieas and emotions when dancing the piece.

19/3/14

Recapped on the choreography that we have interpreted already, in previous lessons. Therefore once we got the choreography, we then started to look into the music, due to different sounds needed to be mixed together.
The following music that we have all agreed on are;
Tsunami - dvbb

The impossible - soundtrack at the start, we thought this was a good relation to our dance due to the film being about a real life Tsunami.

Breaking news report will be used in connection with another song, due to the gentle song playing at the start to then break out to an interuption of the breaking news.

The other song we are using which will play at the start with the tabluexes being performed is called Shago ft Bosko - Buhu intro, this will start playing at 47 seconds, due to we start with the tabluexes.

Clear structure ;
The structure I am using is a Narrative, with a clear structure of each section.

Tabluexes 4 counts of 4, pause 4, develop 4 into movement.
Each individual has there own role, mine is being a mum, so during these tabluexes I am performing individual movements to respond to this.

we then go into choreography were the climax starts to happen, due to rob seeing the tsunami far out.
The choreography is a 4 counts of 8, this is in unsion, which then goes into partner work, to get onto the black boxes, the relation with myself and the music is very important due to the time management being clear with the lyrics, and the ending of the first choreography shows clear transformation to the next choreography which starts with 'Tsunami'.

Today I felt that our grouo piece is coming along very affectively due to the amount of ideas we all have, this is great due to never being stuck on a section to choreograph too. With the ideas flowing we have still all got a good level of concerntration and are not argueing. I feel our group has a strong relation and we are all communicting outside of the lesson, gathering ideas aswell as organising rehearsal space.

Action plan for next week
Due to last section is showing a clear understanding of what has happend in the long term due to the Tsunami, therefore I need to start to write a Monologue. The monologue needs to show alot of emotions to get the crowd ingrowsed in what has happend.
The start of the speach will be strong and emotional starting with, ' Why us.' ' Did we deserve this?'

10/3/14 showing motif to class

Today Chloe taught us retro grade this Is we're you will have a motif / combination and will perform this but then physically rewind this by performing it backwards. 

I found this very confusing and hard, however because we already had a count of 8 we then retrograded this, which was the start of out choreography Tsunami, however we all liked the outcome if this on how it looked and therefore we thought we would put this into our group choreography due to it looking affective.

Today I learnt alot physically and intellectually and now we have completed already 4 counts of 8 at the start of choreo. This was a positive lesson and I felt it effectively really helped me and my group and now I understand what Retrograde means.  

6/3/14

Today we started to respond to Kats task , making 2 motifs.

Today we all decided on the song 'tsunami' by dvbb

 

I started to choreograph the start of the choreography, I feel the music gets you into a positive adrenalin mood, and everyone agreed on the song therefore all felt this was a good song for the choreography aswell as the title matching with the natural disasters. 

This picture represents the start of the choreography re creating the development of the tableaux's, this will starts from the ending of the tableaux's when rob is pointing at the first sign of the tsunami. 

After that it goes into the start of this were we are all looking out for the tsunami, due to warning, 

Levels occur, motif development on the hand gestures, 

The dynamics are sharp, on time, fast, while different levels occur from each peer , I feel this looks really interesting due to the way the transformation will be, that we will be physically performing our hand gesture of looking, into the audience. 

During this performance, the picture is representing the gesture of ' see no evil' with this I found that this was a good emotional relationship due to the tsunami representing 'evil'. 

The dynamics for this are Sharp, fast, with great time - management 

In this picture the style is house, however the dynamic For this is trying to represent running away from the tsunami but we all get stuck, so repetition is created to create the narrative. There is further ongoing development for the choreography, yet the progress is physically coming along incredibly. 

4th march 2014

Today we started to look at music as a group as well as researching pictures o relate physically to a tsunami, these are the pictures that I really thought could develop physical movement and emotions towards the performance. 

From this picture this shows alot of physical damage that has happened due to a tsunami in Thailand, therefore from this picture it gave us alot of ideas expecially for props! 

Ideas ; 

Cardboard , boxes, rubbish, broken cars 

Giving the idea of in the middle of the section of choreography the stage management will move the black blocks were under Neath there will be rubbish , so during the section we will have black out when the tsunami hits during climax and they will spread the rubbish on the floor. 

 This picture represents alot due to the element being water aswell as the choreography being 'natural disasters'. 

Today we started motifs and choreography, we all chose songs that we liked but today we all gave a positive opinion on my song and all come to a conclusion for this song by ddvb 'tsunami' the beats link with a chaos atmosphere aswell as the title of the song links. 

We all worked efficiently today with alot of research, all ideas were put onto the pieces of paper and we finally came to a conclusion of a final structure for our choreography to natural disasters'. 

Styles have been linked in relation with the music that we have chose, all styles can be choreographed if we work strongly with the musicality due to no verbal/ lyrical context in the music. 

The photo above shows a clear structure of all the ideas currently put into prospectus of an overview of the order we are currently thinking of for our choreography. 

From this we all have a clear understanding of what needs to be physically choreographed, ongoing research. 

I feel already that the ideas are coming along postively and the relationship between myself and my peers are working strongly shareing ideas, no arguments and making sure each individual takes into account everyone's abilities. 

27/2/14

Today we started to create our group pieces ,myself , honour, Robbie , & Billie all researched into depth All the ideas we had came up with for the choreography . Today's lesson we got given the iPads to research elements this is what our research looked Like ; 

  The research did not stop then, it then got more intense & ideas started to physically develop, and during the end of the session we had spoken and already made a starting point for our structure e; 

We thought of our element being natural disasters and we researched all the news hitting big disasters that has happend around the world previous years , we then came to a starting structure of ; 

Tableaux's for the starting position that then transform into moving performance for a second and then into a developed motif ; here are the tableaux's ! 

Start; kids playing in the sand, while dad gets mum a drink , set on a beach ! 

  

 

Second one ; 

Dad notices something in the sea, mums looking, while kids are unaware 

Then will leak into 

Breaking news ; sound of the radio cutting in; horror 

This will then transfer into a dance movement telling a narrative , 

With an emotional ending; facts of how many people died that day aswell as an over voice of one of us saying what happend ' why did I survive ' we only came on a family holiday ' mentally scared' really hard hitting towards the audience. 

However this is only a rough guide and there will be alot of development , our team is commited and already researching independanty for next lesson, we all our researching music ideas aswell as facts and choreography, yet not working solo to create counts this will be performed in class to make sure everyone interacts & has a response

 I am excited for this choreography as it could look really well if everyone works as a team . 

Chloe's contemporary workshop

Today I was excited to learn contemporary due to furthering my development ready for university. 

I felt I naturally adapted towards the terminology and physicality towards today's lesson. However the group I was with was only putting half commitment into due to not ' liking' contemporary . However I was eager to correspond to the instructions : we got given a picture and then had to respond to the stimuli , this was earth and therefore in my group was rob, honour and shard. 

The structure that Chloe gave was hard but then clear at the end when it all falled into.a clear structure. 

Each section we had to come up with 4 counts of 8 this was contemporary based  yet we could interpret with dynamics to the stimuli. I had a clear concept of what was being asked and the structure was based clearly on motif development, therefore when our motif was performed it fell into the conclusion of a clear technical development. There was a few negatives like commitment and team work, due to not everyone taking part and not showing an interest due to it being contemporary, however throughout the dance industry further on, you then get into the mind of needing different styles and not everyone wants to see a typical street dance choreography, therefore should always want to learn. 

During the choreography the dynamics were ; sharp , fierce , intense , fast , sudden , dramatic due to telling a story that you are fighting for air & at the end you die. 

I really enjoyed the lesson and learnt alot of technique and termonology I had never heard of before. 

Group 2

Today I worked independantly with Mike, Porsha and Zoe.

We choreographed a routine representing earth, to a song by example. we did not pick the song straight away, firstly we produced a stimuli from a picture that we had been given, at the start we struggled to choreograph but looking into more depth, connecting it with the chosen Element we therefore started to choreograph 4 sets of 8. During the choreography there was alot of cannon, I like using canon in a movement piece due to it looking effective but also helping with musicality and time - management.

There was a range of transformations in the piece, making sure everyones placement changed throughout the piece to be seen. I enjoyed working with this group due to never having the chance before, we took alot of risks and changed a numberous of movement and musicality at the end. We changed the song to ' Michael Jackson - earth, and the movement went correctly in time.

emotions for each element

Earth

• Alive
• Freedom
• powerul
• No limits

I feel there are no limits due to it being the earth, everything could respresent the earth in one big circle.

Fire

• Energy
• Sharp dynamics
• Powerful
• Strong

I feel with fire it is very powerful respresenting all the space, showing emotions, exploration, and very spacious no groundness, all free.

Water

• smooth
• Life
• Neverending
• Fluid
• Free

Water is all on the floor, yet there are alot of physcial movement with the body that can physically represent water, like body rippling, waveing, you could use alot of dynamics grounded on the floor.

Air

• Emotional
• Spacious
• No Limits
• Emotional - sad
• Lyrical

Air you could use alot of jumps and lifts, top visulise air, aswell as breatheness and stillness, Lyrical could coorpriate with lyrcial, as well as using all spaceing.

Elements research

Earth


Dynamics ; sharp, stillness, fluid , open, floor work, spaceing

• Groundnesss 
• Warm colours
• Tribal
• Global warming
• Natural disasters ; Volcanos, tsunami, earthquake
• Animals
• Humans
• Sun - link with global warming
• Snow
• Rain
• Thunderstorms

Fire

• Fierce
• powerful
• Fiesty
• Tension
• Passion - Love, could tell a story - narrative
• Agression - dyanmics; sharp , fierce , grounded, jumps,
• inner / outer
• warm (candles )
• Concerntration
• Energy

Water

• Ripple
• Sharp / powerful
• Harsh
• Cold
• Energy
• Calm
• Flowy
• Wet
• Free
• Emotions
• Life
• Gratetude
• Deep
• Fairytales
• End-less
• Mythology - myths
• Intelligence

Air

• Pollution
• Innocents
• Free
• Spaceious
• Contrasting
• Mixed emotions
• Breath
• Life
• Relaxing
• Travelling
• Autumn
• No limits
• Birds, other animals
• Hot air balloon
• Escape
• Yoga
• Soothing
• Meditation

I then had to interpret to music that was randomly put on in the studio, to these elements, I felt that Fire was my strongest, due to dancing to the emotions, letting of steam, representing angre. I felt this is the one that suited me the most, dynamics and musicallity, I felt this felt more natural as other elements I struggled to improvise, therefore from this practice, I feel that Fire will be my element I will choose for my Solo.

13/1/14

Today we created 4 counts of 8 responding to the air picture given to my group. The choreography needed tobe choreographed to the song ' breeze Blocks'. I already had an understanding of the song due to making choreography up to this in a previous college.

In the choreography I used;
Tabluexes at the start to respresent the picture that was given. the picture represented 5 individuals creating movement signly, but showing a connection from the dynamics. During the choreography we used unison, showing contact through the movement, the relationshio was strong in the group and everyone had individual styles but interpreted the correct styles with the music. Throughout the piece you could see a visual motif development, the motif was a sharp body movement, that required different levels.

The dynamcis that were incorpreted were varied due to different sections; we had;

1. sharp
2. fluid
3. soft
4. fierce
5. control
6. floor patterns

The  choreography developed very quickly and I enjoyed working with my group. Bella, Billie and Kornelia. We was the first to finish our choreography and due to this It was rehearsed well, and time managment was physically positive. I emotionally felt that the choreography could have been developed enormously if we had the chance.

Elements

Elements ;

• Science elements; 
• copper
• Lead 
• Silver 

• Wind ( Air) 
• Tornados 

• Fire ; volcano, sun 
• Natural disasters 
• Earth 

• Godesses , god - greek mothology 
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• Earth - Brown - Green 
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• Air - white 
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• Fire - Yello - Red 
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• Pyriodic table - science 
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• Dynamics - fire - sharp - power - control - fierce - force 
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• Water - fluid, flow , wavey
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• Wind- mixed, sharp, soft, fluid 
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• Earth - Grounded, Sharp

Structure

Structure conveys meaning

• Provides a foundation of choreography 
• Helps to develop a style 

• Binary - AB 
• Ternary - ABC 
• Narrative - A story 
• Rondo - ABACABDA

AB is the begining and end 

ABC every section is different 

ABACABDA is repetition of sections 

Devices - elements wich create choreography with ;

• Canon 
• Unison 
• Contract
• Symmetry 
• Floor patterns 
• Movement component - elevation, fallings, turn 
• Motif 
• Motif development
• Repetition 
• Climax 
• Dynamics 
• Logical sequencing - experimenting, moving body, listen to music - Natural.

9/1/14

What does it take to create choreography;

• Everyones elses abilities 
• Amount of people in the group
• Dance planner 
• Floor spaceing 
• Stamina - Images, Props, Music, Lyrics

1) Research;

• Internet 
• Music 
• Books 
• Photos 
• Outside 
• Television/Films 

2) Consider your group

3) Structures 

4) Devices