Heartbeat

This week in our practical lessons this week we developed our Heartbeat dance. We had to put a story and emotion in to it. We had to keep Miss Dolans dance but we could add our own bits into it. I was in a group with Myriam and Kelly and we had the idea of doing a broken family with the parents arguing and the child not knowing what to do. It fitted quite well with Miss Dolans dance as we could change some of the directs of the moves to some friction between the two parents and the child being caught up in the middle. Myriam was the child and Me and Kelly were the parents. When there were strong sharp movements me and Kelly turned to each other to saw we were getting angry and Myriam stood in the middle. Some of the moves we changed the direction so me and Kelly were going opposit ways and Myriam didn't know which way to go. It worked well but we still need to improve it and make it flow more.

At the beginning of the week we watched a DVD by DV8 Dance. I thought it was amazing the way it was put together and the way they put the story across but yet again a bit strange. I think it was very clever the way they thought of all the ideas and put it together and created this piece. It was about men and how they don't show their emotions much and when they do other men don't accept them. It was set in a pub and they were all drinking beer and then they went outside and a football was introduced all these things are associated with men. I think it will be fun to try and do DV8 style dancing, it's different and be a good experience.

This week we started our mood boards in costume design. We had a A3 piece of paper and we started cutting out pictures from magazines that fitted our colour scheme. My colours are Red, Black and Gold.