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.