Diploma Friday - November the 12th

DANCE:

Today, we had yet again another supply teacher, she was quite supportive and set us a task in which we had to research about different stimulus (activity) based on Winter Dance, Contemporary Dance and how the dance connects with Winter.

We researched the following such as:

- Photographs
- Poems/Quotes
- Pedestrian Movement
- Music
- Props

Photographs: I came across photograph's which just "wow-ed!" me, some of the movements looked very complicated and amusing, it made me want to achieve and try it myself, almost as if they were, "putting me inside the photo".

Poems/Quotes: The poems I found quite boring by my personal opinion, but I found the advantage of the poems were to show how words can connect to winter and how they can use Contemporary dance to lure us into it, creating a story!

An example of a Quote:

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.  by Juan Goytisolo


Movement: When it comes down to movement, in contemporary dance, there are so many sections of it and so many different techniques of movement and strategies. Its all to do with what way you feel best suited to move your body. Don't just feel like your dancing, feel like your living, breathing, drinking, eating, moving, walking, running ect. There can be swift, rapid, soft, hard, intense movement and many,many more!


Music & Props:


I discovered that enable for a Contemporary Dance Performance to take place, there has to be Classical Music to go with it. Since 1945 had it been unleashed together as one, but become most popular during mid 1970s. With the props, we use props enable to express the whole point of contemporary dance and the meaning more, it is more effective and grabs peoples attention and as I say again - creates a story.


Props can include: Umbrellas, chairs, sticks ect. But NOT HATS, SCALFS, BAGS - those are costume fittings. 




After researching, we then had to make up a quick dance individually using a sweet, soft song or a expressive song. The song I chose was expressive, I included props such as :


An Umberella







A Chair:





And through out the whole time I had the picture of :


Icicle's and snow the whole time 










Like I said Snow and Nice connect with Winter, Winter connects with Contemporary dance!
Simple, I had no problems today what so ever!


Today was a great lesson 




 blogging 3rd period - music

practising play period 4 and 5 - drama