Dance- 6/10/15

Dance - 6/10/15

In dance we went over all the routines/movements we had done in the past lessons, just so that they are always in our minds also it helps us keep the theme and atmsophere of our routines in our minds.

We then sat down and had to create a mindmap on Gangs, by this i mean what we thought of when we thought of gangs so particular words like guns and money. Here is my mind map:

We then had to pick six of our words and come up with a small sequence involving movements that represented the six words that you chose. My words were Money, Guns, Knives, Status, Unity and Identity. We had to make sure that our sequwnce was fluent enough that you couldnt tell when one movement ended to when one began. Once we had finished we performed them infront of everyone.

We then got put into pairs i was with Jess, we showed eachother our movements we then had to create another sequence combining our movements/words that we had chosen originally. This worked well as our different movements went well together once we finished it we kept practising it and adding more character to certain parts so it was more effective also adding different dynamics to make it more diverse for example we start walking forward really slowly then jump sharply into the next movement.

We then performed them to the rest of the group.

The group was then split into two and we had to create a small routine to go in a 'fight scene' against the other group but not actually hurting one another. We started off throwing around ideas that we had, and how we wanted our 'gang' to be represented so we focused on the word unity and how we are all one. We started coming on one by one doing the same thing to show this. This worked well as we really got our characters and theme showing through it, improving our focus as a group so we could then create the intimidating atmosphere that we wanted. Once we did that we performed them facing the other group whilst they were performing to really get across the rivalry theme, we then added music to it making everyone on edge within the pieces making the atmosphere perfect for the wanted scenario.

targets: improve my strength so I can complete contact sections more easily i will do this by focusing on strengthening when excersizing. Also improve my flexibility, to do this i will stretch more times every week.