January 17, 2012

Lecturer: Jamie Roberts.
Lesson Two

After watching and analysing the dance clips last lesson, we were split into small groups and were asked to create a sequence based on one of the pieces. Charlie, Bradley and I decided to work with Yesterday which was choreographed by Yasmin Vardimon in 2008.

We started the recreating process by looking at each other's notes and deciding from those which piece to work on. Then we came up with the idea of talking about Performing Arts instead of cancer (which was what the original piece was based on) and started to create a script for me to say, as I was playing the narrator. As I thought of lines to say, Charlie and Bradley choreographed moves to match which I helped with by working out how we could include a narrator, as the original piece was only performed by two people. When it was finished, I was very proud of it, and couldn't wait to perform it.

The performance of it went very well and nothing went wrong. The only slight hitch was having to do it again because we didn't take our socks off. This was because we felt we had more fluidity when we slid across the floor.

I think my strength was creating the script for our choreography, and making sure everyone had lots to do. My target if we ever do this again would be to step out of my comfort-zone a bit more, because I was the narrator because I knew I was good with words. Next time, I should try and be someone who has to do the most dancing, to challenge myself.

I think this could be very useful in the future! I have taken from this the experience of completely changing something I recreated, rather than keeping it the same, so in future I will remember that just because you are recreating something, it doesn't mean you can't put your own touch on it.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJwLtXJbq8A&feature=youtu.be