Dance Lesson 29/09/14

Lesson 29/09/14

In today's lesson was the final lesson that we were to be dancing our 'Rush' Dance and have it filmed for evidence. As it happened Cherkanah and Ellie were not in our lesson today so from our original dance group Saxona and I were the only original members, however Saxona missed last week meaning she missed the further development that we had done to our dance. We also had Elsie and Natalie join our group who Elsie has missed both the lessons before and had not done anything with 'Rush' before and Natalie had started off with a different group in the first week, missed the second and was back for the third. So myself being the only one who hadn't missed a lesson it was then my responsibility to teach Elsie and Natalie what I had from our dance and re-cap it with Saxona. I only taught the beginning section to the others that was from week one as I didn't have enough time to teach the whole routine. We changed slightly the section that we rolled from side to side with extreme speed to instead a travelling spin from side to side as Natalie wasn't comfortable doing the roles so I adapted it to our group and that everyone was comfortable with. 

After a quick recap and teaching Elsie and Natalie the dance it was then time to perform and video our performance. Here is a video of our performance:

After our performance we were given feedback from the rest of the class. The feedback that we were given was: 

• We had a good use of cannon at the beginning 
• It was effective as it caught people's attention and it was manic which helped reinforce the theme of free-falling
• We did a good job of changing people in the dance and slotting people in quickly considering the amount of time that we had
• We had a good starting position
• We needed to work on our positioning of arm movements at the beginning when we circled our arms in canon as they were slightly different

In my opinion I agree that for the amount of time that we had that we did do an okay job of getting together and slotting people in for the amount of time we did. Looking back on the video I definitely agree that we needed to work on the movement of arms at the beginning on the dance as I agree they were all slightly different.

If we had more time I would have liked for us to work on the circular arm movements at the beginning of the dance and also spend some time on polishing movements which would have then have lead to working on the positioning of arms which was picked up on in our feedback. I would also liked to have worked on adding more extreme speeds if we had had more time to work on this as adding more extreme speeds would have created more interested and added a choreographic device to develop our dance. 

Overall I am happy with what we produced in the time we had however there is a lot of work that could have been done to it had we had more time to spend on polishing the dance.