On Friday 10th December we did our performance evening of 'Dance That Means Something'. It was a really successful evening with 78 people in the audience and we raised £95.42 for C.R.Y and the Performing Arts Fund. The evening was filmed by Miss Shipp and Rachael Davis and photographs were taken by Ross Hudson. I know the audience enjoyed it from whom I've spoken to. We had only been doing BTEC Performing Arts for 11 weeks so our dances were not perfect and it was only a work in progress. All our work from costume design lessons was on boards at the back of the hall for everyone to see before the show started. It was nice to be able to see people appreciating the hard work we had done in class. I performed in 6 dances all together and I also performed the presentation with Myriam Maley and Kelly Rolfe. We had to invite guests to dance to pad out the show. I invited my brother along to do some ballet but he asked me to do it with him. We performed a duet we had performed earlier in a show. We also did a presentation to explain DV8, this gave the audience a much clearer understanding of the theme. I don't think they would have understood if we hadn't have done the presentation.
We gave out a questionnaire to the audience to ask them what we need to improve on and what they enjoyed about the evening. 100% told us that they understood the theme of DV8 which is great because it shows we put it across well. Ramalama came out as the most popular dance along with other favourites being Unfinished sympathy, All in your mind, Teardrop and Raindrop. Things that the audience said we could improve on was more singing and drama but this was purely a dance show. We thought someone had a good idea that we should show history of the dancers in the programme we will think about it in the future, someone said the flow of the evening but we don’t really understand this because they ticked the organisation of the night was good and someone asked for more of a variety of dance styles but the theme was DV8.
In our practical lessons we started experiments with DV8's style of dance. DV8's style is very different and it’s all about interacting with other people and going with the flow. When choreographing you have to think about not choreographing and letting your body just go in a natural flow. I think it’s very hard to do because I'm so used to choreographing and putting things together rather than letting my body flow naturally. My favourite lesson was when I was in a group of 4 with Chloe, Shauna and Chloe. We put together a piece that flowed together very well and we let our bodies go where was most natural. We ended up with a piece where we were rolling over each other and all linking together and moving together. It took a couple of times to get it right but when we did it looked very effective.
Using our DV8 knowledge we had to create our own dances thinking about DV8’s style. We got into pairs and starting choreographing our dance. At first it was hard but as we got into it, it became easier. We started off by just thinking of moves we could use then we thought about putting them together. We had to make sure the moves flowed together so as we were linking the one’s we had, we had to add a few more. This made it more of a dance rather than just moving from move to move. We decided we wanted to add the flying angel into our dance. It took us a long time to get this move perfect but we practised and practised to get it right. We broke the move down into stages and worked our way up. I started off on my knees as we both got more confident I started on my feet. We ended up getting it perfect but it did take a few lessons to build up confident and to get the technique right.
All the dances we were making up in class were working towards our performance evening. We performed them all on the evening.
Noted as part of Task 3, C14 Assignment 1
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