Thursday 27th Feb

Today we got put into our groups we will be working with towards our group piece for the end of year show in June. We created a mind map of all the ideas we had for the stimuli "elements" my groups then came up with the simple elements e.g wind,fire,earth,air,water. We then thoughts of natural disasters ; flooding, earth quakes, whirl pools ,tsunami,,volcano etc . Also we thought of the different styles of dance that would respond to natural disasters. We came up with the idea of lyrical hip hop,popping, jazz and contemporary.
We researched into natural disasters and are going to base our dance on tsunami.  We researched more into tsunamis and there were many countries that were/are being hit by tsunamis and have had everything destroyed.  We then looked onto YouTube and looked at the tsunami that was in Thailand in 2004 this killed over 2000 people . 

We then thought of the idea of having the structure as a narrative ( telling a story ) as us all being a family on a holiday and take a day trip to the sea side ( beach) but then when we turn on the radio there is breaking news that there will be a tsunami some time today and we get caught up in it. Opal and Rob are the parents of the family and me and Honor are the children of the family. We also thought of the idea of having a voice over of what has happened that day and how we are surviving today. We created a tableaux and this was by Opal sunbathing and Rob handing over a drink and me and Honor as children playing in the sand. We then created another tableaux and this was by Rob then seeing the tsunami coming towards us. Next week we plan to create movement from the tableaux we created in class today








Research

I researched on YouTube Tsunami's in Thailand and I found that many things were destroyed and many families were hurt by the buildings and homes that taken down/ away from them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yczR7dl-y1Y 


2004 - Thailand Tsunamis Sunday, 26 December.

Also I researched into Tsunami pictures and waves and I used the picture to create movements such as waving, circles, lines and then thought of having a climax as the waves taking over Thailand.

Tuesday 11th Feb

Today Chloe taught in class, she taught us structures devices and dynamics to help us out with with our group pieces for the show case in June. I was put in a group with Brodie,Koriella and Bella. We had the responded to the stimuli "elements" with a picture Chloe gave us, she gave us a picture of fire dance and we then created a mind map of what fire reminded us of and what movements we could do to create choreography with just a picture.

 We wrote down all the things we thought of when fire came to our head and what movements we could use went creating choreography from the picture we was given. We used the picture and the shape of the fire to help us with movements and this is what gave our group the idea of spiral,round,angry,dangerous dance.


We then got give the structure Ternary this meant that the three sections are different from each other. We first started of with a build up of fire and then used movement components to make the dance more interesting to watch, we used many levels travailing and turning for the build up of fire. Also, we used many floor patterns and jumps of a explosion of fire this was for section  A and B. We then used retro grade for section A but developed it, this meant doing the same as what you already did but doing it backwards e.g like when your rewind something on tv.

When taking part in a group you need to work as a team, respect each other's ideas and listen to each other. We also need to work to everyone's abilities as you don't want someone over powering another dancer.