Thursday, 24 September 2015

Todays lesson

Today in dance we went through the usual warm up. We tried out Cunninhams technique, however travelling the tilts this time. We started of the lesson with just simple breaths then did a spinal roll down and and again some curves to stretch the sides of our boys. We then went out into plank and also did side plank too.
Afterwards, we did our spinal roll down exercise however this time facing different directions in between phrases and we made this flow.
Then we did the lions and tigers and bears warm up routine again. but in groups of 4, 2 going in one direction and 2 in another. Then in a group of 3 people, we tried out having one person facing to the side whilst the others did it to the front.
Then we did the trio/duet piece 'The Park'. We started to introduce characterisation into the piece. Everyone had their own character in the park, whether it was a business women, a drug dealer a homeless person, a child etc, and within the phrase we learnt we tried to perform it in a way our characters would. I found this quite hard at first, but when I put my character deeply into my mind I stated to become it.
Then we watched 'The Park', where the inspiration of the phrase was coming from, and i noticed all the performers were very strong in character and you could tell exactly who they were playing, whether it be because of their costume, dynamics or movement. Then, in partners we had 1 chance to watch bit of movement and try to recreate it as accurate as possible. This was hard as we only saw it once however, Summer and I happened to catch on to a lot of detail in the movement but got the order mixed up. We then learnt the actual thing.

1 comment:

  1. This is a good start Lilly, now make sure you evaluate your work in the lessons, rather than just describing what we did. Make sure you add in the choreographic tasks we have done and evaluate how these worked for you. This will help in the future when you are creating your own solo.
    Think about;
    What are your strengths?
    What are your weaknesses?
    What targets could you set yourself each lesson to improve upon? Reflect on whether you achieved these each lesson.
    Laura

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