In today’s dance lesson, we warmed up using the sequence we
all helped to choreograph last week in our lesson. This, I find is helping me
to improve the areas it is aimed at such as strength, flexibility and balance.
In the main part of the lesson, we looked at our upcoming
performance in the year 12’s performance of Cats. They are using fashion as
their stimulus for the play and have asked us to, with the help of Emily and
Kat, choreograph a sequence from Cats for us to perform of two of the four
shows. For this dance, we split to class in to two groups, one playing the
journalists and the other playing the paparazzi. I am, along with Bryleah, Luke, Kimberly, Paris, Jess and Ashley, playing the journalists. A journalist is a person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television. Their job entails getting information quickly and efficiently therefore the moves we have been preparing for the song are sneaky and fast paced as this is the way journalists work.
Our group decided to use levels and speed in our sequence to
show the journalists need to gather the information from the cats they need to
do their job to a high standard. One move I think looked professional was when we
were standing in a group, on every second count, we would jolt forward as an
ensemble piece acting as if we were trying to speak to the cats on the fashion
runway. This unison ensemble movement created a power status for our group and imposes
a certain degree of authority which the audience will feed off of and interpret
it as we are in fact journalists.
Here is a video recording of our lesson and includes the decisions we made towards our performance in Cats.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJberghiCkI&feature=youtu.be
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