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Eseta Penaia: Reflection on Dance Performance- Musical Theatre- America

1) Outline the theme

The theme that we tried to portray through our dance performance was CONFLICT. Not any old cliche negative conflict between two opposing sides, but a very hyper flirtatious conflict between male and female.The theme was taken out by the film 'West Side Story'. The conflict happens over whether we should live in America or not. The males who are taking the opposing side seem to think that America is unfair and a waste of time, whereas the females think that America is their home and that that's where they should be. So over all, for our performance we chose to have flirtatious conflict between the two sexes.

2) Describe the motif

One of the motifs at the beginning of our performance was a motif that portrayed our theme 'flirtatious conflict' very well. In the beginning we had our own little solos. We had the girls lining up in a diagonal line on stage left and the boys lining up in a diagonal line on stage right. First, Patricia who was the first girl she spun around clockwise to face the front, then she put her left hand on her hip and then she had her right hand facing out to the side and pushed it out, then she moved her hand back in then pushed it out going down. Then Logan responded to it and he also spun around clockwise to face the front and then he had put his right hand on his hip and then had his left hand (with the palm facing the audience) and held up the index finger and the middle finger to show the number two. I responded to that then I took one step forward then spun around clockwise to face the front then put my right hand out (with palm facing the ceiling) and i put my left hand out too (with palm facing the ceiling). Brandon then responded to it and then he took two steps forward and then he ran his right hand down his left arm, starting from the shoulder making his way down. Tiare then responded to this and then she took one step foward and then put her right hadn across her chest as she did with left hand and then hands facing eachother (palms facing eachother) ina zigzag motion she slowly moved her hands toward the ceiling (with her fingers facing the ceiling).

3) What worked?

One thing that really worked well was our team. Our team worked really well together, there was alot of participation and hardwork going on, not to mention teamwork. Had some leadership skills amongst the five of us too. We worked really well together, especially under pressure. The choreography also worked with the type of music, we had musical theatre movements with musical theatre music.

4) What didn't work? What didn't work was how two people from our team of six were always absent from school, which made it harder for the team to work on and work out some more choreography for the performance. That was the only thing that didn't work.