Starting A New Project

We started this lesson by learning a short phrase, we then got into pairs and used choreographic devices to manipulate the movement to make it our own. For example me and Emily used fragmentation to change the order of the movement and repetition to bring back movements that we had liked again. This is because we felt as though we could use each other to make some of the movements look more aestetic, one example of this is we used a combination of mirroring and synchronisation to have more variety in our piece. I think that our performance of this, considering we only had a short time to choreograph and rehearse this went very well, i think that i just need to work on my timing to make sure that i don't rush some of my movements and allow myself to listen to the music and finish each movement. As well as this i need to watch that my limbs to not hyper-extend and make sure that they do not move too far during movements.

Jaydee and Emily Duet (1st Lesson)

We discussed the themes of our new class project which is going to be based around the idea of media control, we discussed about how the media exaggerates some things that can hide others. We spoke about how we could use these ideas to create a dance piece, we thought about how we could show control though each other and different movements. Another idea of this is using costume or the amount of dancers to show how one group can have power over another.

Jaydee, Emily, Talia and Megan (1st Rehearsal)

We also looked at the idea of secrets and how something can start off very small but through "Chinese whispers" it can grow and get bigger until it has been completely changed. In small groups we looked at how we could show this through movement, for example we used hand and arm gestures that could represent holding a secret object and passing it to the next person. But each time it gets passed along the object gets bugger just like the secret.