-The first video was Yesterday by Yasmin Vardimon and was for her 10th anniversary which was performed in 2008. The specific piece we looked at in this was called lullaby it involved a man talking about illness while using a pillow to seemingly beat a women up, During the fight the girl gained the upper hand for short periods of time showing the symptoms of the illness then the man took over and finally suffocated the 'illness'. The message behind this was that the women was the illness trying to attack his body and the pillow acting like a barrier to protect him. There were also moments where he stopped to rest and she attacked which shows sometimes you think its gone but it comes back fighting.
-The second was by Christopher Bruce and was called Rooster which was performed in the late 1980's this shows a group of dancers dancing with jazz type movements bopping there head like a rooster to a song called little red rooster by the rolling stones. The dance starts with a man dancing on his own for almost two minutes with other men behind him standing around making slight movements every so often in time with the first mans movements. Then a women joins in and starts dancing with one of the men behind they support her in making larger movements. She dances with two individuals they then finish the dance by walking away bopping there head seemingly rejecting her. She then dances with two other males who both support her for some more lifts they then walk away bopping there head but on in the same rejecting fashion as the first two.Then some of the male dancers from the piece including the first man comes back into shot with two other women dancers with the first female dancer still dancing. The male dancers then turn to face the camera then there is a blackout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bTW8tPL6qY&feature=player_detailpage - This is a youtube video of the piece.
- The third was Car Man by Matthew Bourne it was performed in either 2000 or 2001 the piece we looked at had no particular name but was at the very beginning. They are in a car garage with many men working they seem to dance in the way of ballet dancing in pairs or threes I believe this is showing them working as when they are not dancing they go of to areas and work on the cars plus the dancing is in time but has a messy organised style which I like. They start reasonably out of time and the energy is low until the boss comes in and the unison begins to pick up as well as the pace. They perform moves and walk in and out of each others movements possibly showing them helping one another with certain tasks.A man who is clearly late then comes in the dancers start picking up the pace even more. Almost everyone is out on the floor space dancing when the boss rings a bell and they all break out of there messy organised dancing pattern and leave the floor space going of scene. The women then come on with a very different type of dancing they are elegant and float around dancing together in harmony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5kT8Zt300 - This is a youtube video of the piece.
We then had to use these understandings and make our ow performance based on one of these pieces creating a similiar story line but using our own idea and interpretations to make the piece unique. I was partnered with David,Cat and Arnold and we were given the Car Man to interprate. We decided to keep the fact it was in the garage but create a different scenario and also keep the movemtnts done at diiferent moments with eachother to show us working. We decided that the story line was going to be me Arnold and David are working then cat comes in and we try to seduce her one after the other which was a mix of little red rooster with her rejecting us instead. At the end she turns out to be married so we head back to work.
http://youtu.be/qa3Lmg7qm9Y - My Performance video on Youtube.
Strengths - My strengths in these lessons were that I am very good at anilysing meaning through dance as well as picking up on other movements im also quite good at using my analytical skills to good use by making a piece out of them and taking certain ideas and discrading others to create a piece within a group. This lesson also helped me to develop these skills further and i hope i will continue to do so.
Weaknesses - I would say my weakness is when i was dancing i need to work on my dancce moves greatly as my quality is not good things such as pointing toes and such. Also I need to focus properly in lessons however i feel that i did improve for this lesson i do need to get evenbetter to maximise my potential.
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