this week in performing arts

This week has been very good! We had our first practical on Tuesday this week and it was a double so everyone was tired at the end of the day. We were working on the contemporary dance we started the week before to the song ‘heartbeat’.

To help us with our assignment on DV8 we started looking at how we can add emotions and a story to our dance. We then split up into groups and had to think of a story that would fit the chorography and of course the song. I think most people went with a heartbreak situation as it fits in very easily with the lyrics. Then we had to make up our own ending and sort of end the story. We had to make sure that every movement we put into our chorography added to the emphasis of the story and had a real purpose in the dance.

As I mentioned we were set our next assignment. It is all about the physical theatre group DV8. We have to do a big research project into everything about them. Quite a lot of the focus in our project is the chorographer Lloyd New son. His routines always tell a story and contain lots of emotion as well as meaning. He doesn’t choreograph for the fun of it he tries very hard to get his message across with very dramatic pieces of dance. This is why we worked very hard on the emotional side of dance this week in our lessons.

In costume design this week, we started making mood boards using the colours we want to include in our final design. We cut out things from magazines (relating to our colour scheme) and arranged them on the paper to see what went well. I think we will continue this next week as nobody quite finished.

I am really looking forward to next week as we are going to try and dance like DV8 which will be fun but painful. Also, next week a few of us are helping at the rock challenge auditions which is very exciting!