Choreography lesson 9

In today’s lesson we began by reviewing the feedback we received from our teacher based upon our choreography some of the points we were given included: • During the triangle section try to find more ways to build movement so it becomes more exaggerated throughout, for example certain actions could be a lot sharper and deeper , we also need to ensure that we are all doing the same thing and if someone is doing something different intentionally we need to make it more obvious in order for the audience to not get the impression someone has gone wrong • Throughout the piece use more breath and make sure to maintain our characters. • Now we need to start rehearsing full out every time as the performance quality, facial expressions and intensity of movement is vital to the piece. From this we began to work on our feedback by going through our dance slowly and applying any corrections we had been given. We made sure to go through every section in detail to ensure that we all knew what we were doing as well as making sure certain movements had that powerful and strong dynamic to help add to our piece. We also discussed our facial expressions, we talked about how we should maintain a strong fixed eyeline to make the audience feel intimidated by us and almost a little bit uncomfortable. Towards the end of our piece our storyline becomes more emotional and therefore we wanted to show a sense of sadness to highlight the fact that patients inside a mental asylum do have feelings and are not constantly out of control. During this lesson we also worked on finishing our piece in which we managed to achieve. Our final piece of music is “I Giorni” by Ludovico Einaudi This music is a huge contrast to the music we selected at the beginning of our piece, reflecting a more emotional feel. This piece has a slow tempo and is played by a piano in a minor key portraying a sense of sadness, within this section we are linking our movement to the straitjacket which was a humane form of treatment that many asylums used including the pilgrim psychiatric centre. Here is an image that helped us get a better idea around this:

The straitjacket provided a restraint that the patient could not supply himself. It was an overgarment that trapped the arms together constraining an aggressive prisoner or patient. Within this section we demonstrate this idea by performing choreography with our arms attached together behind our backs, every now and then we release an arm to show the need for freedom, we portray a sense of sadness a s we can imagine how trapped and confined these patients must have felt using the straitjacket. Having completed our piece, we will now work on cleaning our dance and refining any sections we may be unsure on. Here is a draft video of our finished product: https://youtu.be/WS543g2FoaU references: Kansas Historical society , (2014) , Straitjacket , (online) https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/straitjacket/18727 [accessed 23rd November 2020] Merriam Webster (na), straitjacket , (online)https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straitjacket [accessed 23rd November 2020]