Thursday 20th March

Group piece 

What worked well in our group piece so far?

• working in a team
• bouncing of each other's ideas
• all agree on the same things/ ideas
• added in each other's ideas
• work at everyone's abilities

Individually - 

• create more moves to add into routine and more ideas 

What areas can develop as a group?

• everyone committing to ideas
• use of dynamics/levels
• have a clearer structure of routine

what choreographic principles have we been using?

DEVICES

• repetition 
• motif development   
• logical sequencing 
• contact 
• cannon
• floor patterns
• climax
• symmetry
• tableaux
• stillness

Tableaux - 4 counts still 

               - 4 counts clapping hands

TSUNAMI

Impossible back track  ( waves hitting) 

Shago feat Bosko Buha intro - 47 seconds

Tsnami - 1min 14seconds

Breaking news 

In my group we need to work on creating a climax for the routine and looking at quotes for our end section of the routine this would be by one of us dancing over the speech and asking why this has happened to us and the family.

 

Dance Planner

ELEMENTS

Global warming/Natural disasters

• Earthquake
• Tornado
• Whirl pool
• Tsunami
• Twister
• Flooding
• Volcano

 TSUNAMI 

                Create movement from the pictures using shapes of the                             waves,circles,lines,floor patterns, elevation and gestures.
               
                 Use of tableau from picture.

Styles of dance used 

• Waving for waves
• popping
• Jazz
• Contemporary
• Lyrical
• Commercial 
• Urban

       Structure

• Narrative ( A,B,C )
• Telling a story 

              IDEAS

• Water ( tap dripping for sound effects)
• Explosion for when waves crashes over in a Tsunami
• Over speech ( news report idea) - crying people
• Before and after story
• Story family / tourist on a holiday acting out the disaster 

Research

•  December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by an earthquake that is thought to have had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.
• 230,000 people in 14 countries died
• countries that have been hurt/destroyed 
• 1st Helens erupted 

EMOTIONS 

• Sad
• Lonely
• Destroyed
• Heartbroken
• Lost

            Music ideas 

• Chilled non lyrical music
• BBC news report
• Beaty music

         Dynamics 

• sharp
• sudden
• fierce
• speed
• flow

Devices 

• floor patterns
• cannon
• unison
• logical sequencing
• climax
• motif development
• repetition
• juxtaposition

PROPS

• camera
• black boxes
• rubbish
• beach props
• clothing
• cardboard boxes

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-2004-indian-ocean-tsunami

Tuesday 4th March

Tuesday 4th March

We created a motif from the picture of Thailand Tsunami and came up with the idea of using black boxes for props and use of them when the tsunami hits Thailand  we then are stranded on them. We then created movement from the picture of the tsunami and this was by using movement components , travelling , falling and mainly gestures. We used gestures from our tableau  we created and this was by looking out at the waves as they go back and then come forward. We then thought of the style whacking and house for tsunami.               


We used choreographic devices to create our motif for our group dance these were 

• logical sequencing ( house section moving side to side)
• canon ( dancing all together whacking,house)
• floor patterns
• repetition ( use of look out gesture)  
• symmetry 

We also thought of using emotions behind the dance for the lost of people and what people went through on 26th December 2004. These were 

• heart broken
• upset
• sad
• lonely destroyed
• lost 

We created 4 counts of 8 for our motif that would be always be repeated throughout our group dance and to change our dynamics and floor patterns for our motif development and this is what we will be doing next time.

• We first created floor pattern and this was by having me and Honor on the boxes and Rob and Opal on the grown we though of this motif for after when the tsunami has hit us

• We then created a motif from our tableau from the picture we were using to get inspirations from it .We got the idea of the boxes from were people are standing on cars and rubbish we used our tableau to use gestures from it and this was by Rob pointing and Opal looking out at sea to see whats happening. We then thought of looking out at sea and using emotions of panic behind the dance to create a story of what is happening/going to happen.

• We then used whacking for our style of dance for our motif and this was because we thought it was powerful and was a good use of dynamics ( flow and speed / heavy ) for our motif.  We used our heads moving side to side with our arms going the same way as use of panic when we see the state of what the hotel is and everything else what has been destroyed. 

• We also used another style of dance for our motif and this was by using house we thought of the idea as running away from what has happened and running away from waves ( more waves that are coming) We used logical sequencing for this part as we all thought that it felt right by the way our body moves with the movements that we created and this was by running ( house step) and footwork.