Dance with Kat and Emily - 19th September 2014

As a warm up to the lesson we did an exercise were we had to sort out some elements of dance into two categories. These to categories were:

Physical Skills,

• Posture - the position of our limbs or how we carry the body as a whole.
• Aliment - 
• Flexibility -  How manipulative our body can be.
• Co-ordination - Knowing what all of your body parts are doing.
• Strength - How well you hold you body, with a strong intensity.
• Extension - Carrying your movements through your whole body.
• Facial Expression - Reflection the emotion through your face and body.
• Balance - Maintaining your moves without shaking.
• Stamina - Pacing your energy throughout your performance.

Interpretative Skills,

• Musicality - How your respond to the music you perform too.
• Focus - The intensity in your performance, and how well you take to a character.
• Projection - How you present the story/emotion to an audience.

We then got back into ours dance groups to work on our pieces inspired by DV8. We looked very closely as thinking out Characterisation, Extension and Posture. Once we worked on this we then went on to add more depth to our pieces. We did this by adding repetition, a creative way to enter into the dance and canon. Canon is adding different people doing the same thing yet at different paces and timings, this makes it a lot more exciting for an audience to watch.

My target that I have set for my self is to use my characterisation in the dance to add some more depth and interesting techniques to the dance moves. I feel confident with the dance moves but feel that I have not yet added depth into them and make them unique to my characters style. I think that this will be achievable, as I can use my characterisation from the dance to add something different to each move from everyone else. I want be have added something different to each move and section by the time that we perform this dance to the class.