Dance with Kat and Emily - 12th September 2014

In today's lesson we learnt about physical theatre with in dance and performance. At the start of the lesson to help us understand what physical theatre is we had to write down what we thought it was, we came up with ideas like; using your body to make other objects and set, using our body to represent a type of character and using our body to become something else in a creative way.

We were then shown a piece of physical theatre by DV8 called Enter Achilles. This is about a group of men who are getting ready for a night out in the pubs. This piece also touches on subjects like homophobia and judging people that are different. After watching this video we went on to learn a piece of dance inspired by DV8. When put into groups to rehearse we had to work on the unison in our piece. Unison is where a group or couple have perfect timing in the work and make every move look seamless. I felt it easy to pick up on the routine and worked well with my group in making sure we worked on the unison and our positioning. However I feel that I could have put a lot more characterisation into the piece by really adopting the character of a drunk man and being a bit more confident in the moves that I was doing. I will look to work on this in the coming lessons.

I will improve my characterisation by exploring different character traits of my character in the dance. I will try out some of these possibility's on the other people in my group and we will compare them all and see which one works best for the dance. By the next rehearsal I wish to have a clear understanding of my character in the dance and be able to use this to bring the dance sequences to life.