18th September- 24th September 2023
In class today we warmed up our body’s by doing movement. We do this because it increases your heart rate and gets blood pumping through your body to decrease the chance of getting injured. We then did some stretches which are important because they increase your flexibility and strengthen your technique.
After that we got a picture stimulus of one half of the world exploding and the other half of it being normal, we shared ideas on what kind of movement we thought represented the picture best then we all made our own count of eight and taught each other it. As a group we put it all together then we performed it. We did this to understand stimulus’s in devising and to add to the performance piece.
Today I learned how to make dance from a stimulus. I think i did well at picking up others choreography and remembering it, although some of the movements were quite challenging. The ideas i contributed was to all do a count of eight and put them together and to do slow, big movements to imply an explosion.
In this project i think i fit well as a dancer or actor. To prepare for the next session i will lean the choreography more and make sure i know every step and timing of the dance.
I am quite worried about remembering the choreography that we’ve learned or messing up the choreography when it comes to us performing it.
I need to improve my memory skills, i can do this by practicing over and over again in my free time to ensure that i know the dances off the top of my head in order to be ready for the performance.
The challenges i faced were to understand how to create a dance from a stimulus as i had only ever created an acting piece from a stimulus. i overcame this by asking questions about how we would do this and by putting in the effort to research about stimulus’s.
With Sarah in acting we wrote what we were worried about which I wrote ‘I am worried about sea levels rising’. We also wrote a letter to our future children called ‘Dear child of the future’ and we also wrote a fact about sustainability. We did this so we could add it all into our performance we put together this section of the performance and kept practicing it.
I am worried about getting my lines learned before the performance but I will continue to practice my lines in my free time as well as in class until I remember them.
