Elements

                       

                                                                 Fire                   Periodic Table/Chemical Elements 
                                    Gods, Goddess                                                                         Water
                                                                                    Vale
                                         Global warming                                              Line                            Wind/Air
                             Texture                            ELEMENTS          Gold/Sliver

                                   Space Size           

                                           Shape                                                                          Direction

                                                       Colours           Earth             Natural disaster        

          Elements of design 

• Line - can be considered in two ways. 
• Shape - A shape is a self contained defined area of geometric or organic form
• Direction - All lines have direction - Horizontal, Vertical or Oblique. Horizontal suggests calmness, stability and tranquillity. Vertical gives a feeling of balance, formality and alertness.
• Size - Size is simply the relationship of the area occupied by one shape to that of another
• Texture - surface quality of a shape - rough, smooth, soft hard glossy 
• Value - lightness or darkness of a colour

         Periodic Table

• H - hydrogen
• He - Helium
• C - Carbon 
• Ag- Sliver
• Au - Gold

       Natural disasters

• Flood/ Landslide
• Earthquake
• Tsunami
•  Ice Slide
• Blizzard
• Tropical cyclones
• Heat Waves
• Lighting
• Tornadoes 
• Volcanic eruptions 
• Wildfires/Bush Fires

       Goddess and Gods

• Ancient Egypt -  Nun           man carrying a bark (could be used as contact/ lift ) 
• Achelois - One of the moon goddesses.
• Alectrona - Early Greek goddess of the sun.
• Bia - The goddess of force.
• Eurus - The East Wind - One of the Anemoi (wind gods).
• Gaia -  Goddess of the Earth, Mother Earth.
• Khione - The goddess of snow and daughter of the North Wind

         Global Warmings

• War
• Droughts
• Storms
• Human health 
• Plants and animals
• Extinction
• Sea levels  
• Increase in temperature
• Global Warming Cause: Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants
• Carbon dioxide emissions from burning gasoline for transportation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPdEl0Duoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFON5pPtx4

     Earth

• Grounded 
• Warm colours
• Tribal
• Warming colours
• Rooted
• Nature
• Contrasting dynamic
• Static

       Fire

• Fierce
• Powerful
•  Feisty
• Tension
• Passion
• Agression
• Inner/outer
• Warm ( candles)
• Concentration
• Energy
• Pulse raising
• Use of space

        Water

• Ripple
• Free 
• Calm
• Harsh
• Powerfl
• Cold
• Wet
• Emotions
• Happy
• Life 
• deep
• Fairy tales
• Mythology
• Never ending
• intelligence
• Personal space
• Movement compents

        Air

• Free 
• Innocent
• Breeze
• Spacious
• Contrasting
• Breath
• Life
• Travel
• Autumn
• Birds
• Hot air balloons
• Escapism
• Relaxing
• Soothing
• Meditation

Thursday 30th January

We responded to the stimuli "Elements" this was by "Water". We used pictures this helped us  create 4 counts of 8 to respond to the picture we was given. We was given this picture

we created movement by using devices these were things such as cannon,unison,motif,motif development,dynamics,contrast,contact and logical sequencing. These were elements to help us create the choreography for our group piece. We came up with story behind the dance this was that the women in the photo was trapped in an aquarium (tank) and then her life changes and she becomes a famous mermaid. Also, in our group we suggested that water was a fluid dance but there could be a climax used by contrasting dynamics (speed and flow) e.g when waves hit on shore it becomes big and this would create a climax to a dance. We also thought of how mermaids moved and swimmers. 

Firstly we used a tableau this idea came from the picture as the women is trapped. Elliott and Korenial are taking photos of the famous mermaid as tourist.  This was the start of a motif.

 Also, we thought of waves moving and rolled around so it looked like Korenial was swimming. We also used contact work for this section.

 Our group thought of how waves would move slowly so we created movement by cannon and unison as this stage. We also used logical sequencing were our bodies felt right were they were going.

 We created movement with devices this section was by dynamics (force,speed and flow) and and symmetry. We created choreography by using floor patterns as well and not just staying in one place as a time.

 We came up with the idea of a swimming race trying to get back out of were the mermaids were trapped and back to human life.

Finally we came back to the motif we started with this gave use of a structure ternary.  

Research of Elements

Euclid's elements (shapes)

• Triangle,hexagon,pentagon.
•  Its beauty lies
•  by the ancient Greek

Water

I came up with the idea of a tap dripping this was the first thing that came into my head when I thought of water . I thought the movements throughout the dance could be contrasting dynamics and slow sanitised quick movements to resemble the water dripping from the tap. 

I also thought of the colour blue and white as I imagine water bluey white colour. This would be a good idea for colours of costume.

Water reminds of ripples and a world pool as a boat sinks in the sea. It also reminds me of calm sea and then in a dance the climax could be the build up of rain and waves plashing against rocks.

• Happy
• Life 
• deep
• Fairy tales
• Mythology
• Never ending
• intelligence
• Personal space

Fire

Fire reminds me instantly of a powerful dance,this would be more krumping and breakin.

I also researched into dances that fire is used in 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciG2u-LN3fc

They used dynamics speed when moving the fire sticks around there head this created a climax as the dance became more interesting and a build up not always on one level. They also used fluid this was by how well each move flowed into another and made the dance fluid,they also used alot of speed this reminded me of fire as its fast and then dies down when the fire is put out with water.

Thursday 6th Feb

Today Kat gave the class a group task. I was put with Opal Rob and Bella. Each group  then got to pick a element witch were written on the board. The element that we had chosen we had to come up with a tableau and a set of movements to represent our element. My group chose the periodic table we the researched into it and looked at images from our research we then got the idea of Sodium and looked at images of sodium. It showed us that sodium is a chemical that is close together and then when it reacts with water the particles explode everywhere. We then created a motif to help us with our dance. We firstly started of with being close together and then spreading out using movement components e.g gestures,travelling and turning . We then developed this motif by using different levels, canon and unison to make it more interesting for the audience to watch.