Dance-Reflection

Dance- Reflection on Musical Theatre (America Group)

1) Outline the theme

The theme that our group had decided on was conflict. We thought that we would take it away from the cliche conflict being something negative, but bring in a more hype, flirtatious conflict where two sex groups (male and female) fight over whether America is the best place to live or not. We tried to portray this message and have one group of girls and one group of boys. Throughout the whole dance we always had two groups and we showed through our movements that it was a flirtatious conflict. Instead of hard, jerky movements that would be in a megative conflict we made our movements very hype and enjoyable. So to repeat myself one last time, the theme of our dance was CONFLICT!

2) Describe the motif

One sequence of dance we used to show this flirtatious conflict was the motif that Patricia had choreographed for us. We used canon in the first line of lyrics "I like to be in America, ok by me in America, everything free in America...". For each of the those lines each of us girls had to skip to the front with our heads up and our hands swaying on the side, we skipped with the opposite hands and feet. Then next the boys had to skip to the front to where we were. This portrayed this message that already us girls think that we should be in America, whereas the boys think we shouldn't be in America. What we did next was that we had a little solo each. Someone from the girls would do a little solo, then a boy, then a girl etc. First Patricia spun around clockwise and put her hands out (open arms), then logan did a spin clockwise to the front and then put up his right hand a put two fingers up. Then I spun around clockwise and put out my hands just like Patricia, then Brandon walked up to me and stood one meter away from me and put two of his hands up and started washing himself, just like he was showering himself. Then Tiare walked into the middle of us four and first put her right hand on her chest, then her left hand on her chest, then she faced both her hands together and slowly did a zig zag pattern with both her hands moving up.

3) What worked?

Well everything actually worked really well together. Our choreography worked really well with the piece of music that we were using. So we actually used hyper, jerky movments to a fast moving piece of music. Our group also worked very well together. When we had to practice we would practice and use our time wisely. Over all our group did very good team effort.

4) What didn't work?

Well, in our group we were supposed to have six people, but out of us six, two people were always missing. In the end one of these two people dropped out of school and the other only came when she felt like it, so it didn't really work for the other four people because two were always away and it was really hard to do our work knowing that we had two other people to teach the choreography to. Another thing that didn't really work well was that sometimes I had to end up helping others in my group with their choreography, so it ended up that 90% of the choreo that I helped them with ended up being mine, and it really sucked because then all my energy went into their choreo when I should be concentrating on my own.