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Dance Reflection- Group: Eseta, Logan, Brandon, Patricia and Tiare (America Group)

1) Outline the theme

The theme of our dance was straight forward, our theme that we tried to portray to the audience was CONFLICT. This wasn't any cliche negative conflict, but very hyper, flirtatious conflict. The conflict is between two sides, male and female. The males think that living in America is a waste of time, whereas the females think that America suits them best. In our routine we portray the conflict through two sides doing different routines and at times we'll do a routine together. So again, our theme of our performance is based on flirtatious conflict between male and female gender.

2) Describe a motif

One motif that we had in our performance was choreographed by Patricia. In this motif Patricia thought that we would have two groups and it was kind of like a call response piece, where the females say something and then the males say something totally opposite. We also did little solos. For the first solo, Patrica spun around to the front clockwise to face the front and then put her left hand on her hip, while she moved her right hand from the top the the middle. Then Logan responded to that and he also spun around clockwise to face the front, then he put up his right hand and put up two fingers while his left hand was on his left hip. I responded after and I also spun around clockwise to face the front, while was spinning I had both my hands on my chest, when I faced the front I put both hands out, my right pointing to stage right, and my left pointing to stage left. After that Brandon then responded. He took two steps forward and then ran his right fist across his left arm. Tiare then responded to this and she also took two steps forward. As she took the first step with her right foot, her left hand was on her chest, then she took a step with her left foot and then she placed her right hand across her chest. From there she took both of her hands and faced her palms to one another, with her fingers facing the ceiling, and slowly doing a zig zag motion to the ceiling. This motif showed us the flirtatious conflict that was already happening between the two sexes.

3) What worked?

What worked really well was our group. We all worked well together and had very good team work, which got us through our routines. Our choreography that we also choreo went very well with the music that we were dancing to. We had very hyper, full on music and we also had very jerky and hard movements instead of slow movements which will not go with the music well. So we had to work our way up and we had to keep the fast pace the whole way through our performance, except for the very beginning where the musics tempo was very slow. Over all, it worked out quite well.

4) What didn't work?

What didn't work for us as a group was how sometimes people from our group will be away which made it really hard to pull off. Originally, we had six people to start off with but ended up with five. Two people from our group were always away and had very lame excuses as to why they were away, one of these two ended up dropping out of school because of family issues. Another thing that didn't work was that we gave too much help to one member in the group that when it came to choreography we would help her, but in the end we'll realise that we actually choreographed her whole thing. So it really didn't work well. In the future, I will not be working with this person again. These were the only two problems in our group.