R.A.D.S- Relationships

This lesson we focused on relationships sector of R.A.D.S in movement. There are many keywords that revolve around the word Relationships. They are the following.

• Side-by-side
• Waiting
• Back-to-back
• One behind the other
• Mirror
• Unison
• Canon
• Interaction
• Answer and Question
• Lead + Follow
• Passing
• Contrast

We was given the task of working in pairs to create a small movement piece incorporating these key words into our movements, Our stimulus was a phrase "The breakdown of a relationship"  I was paired with Henri. We both decided that we should come up with a movement piece first before we add music, This way we could decide the emotion and pace with the music separately, as long as we had a base idea. We tried to incorporate each keyword into our movements. After lots of decisions we made a list of movements. Here is the list below:

Here is the video of our performance:

 As you can see in the video we tried to focus and include every key word of relationships into our piece, however we soon found out that this was not possible. Words we could not include were: Answer + Question, Contrast and Canon. Obviously, these words can be interpreted into a movement however me and Henri didn't really understand how to experiment with these words . Watching the video above, In my opinion, I do think our movements were very loose in terms of physical ability, they were not sharp and quick. I think this was due to the way I carried myself, particularly when I completed the passing movement (walking over Henri), this did look sloppy. In contrast though, our back to back movement where we lift our arms at different heights was executed well. The pace of our movement wasn't very fast either which slowed the piece down, maybe we could find a faster paced piece of music to add to the overall energy, in turn I could then focus on the way I carry myself as well. After the performance we was given a criticism which was that there was lots of wandering about in between movements which negatively affected our concentration in our movement, I completely agree with this and I think this is a reason why everything didn't really flow-Perhaps this was a flaw in or experimentation However this is something we can improve and focus on next lesson- perhaps trying to compact our movements into a smaller space along with faster music would mean our moves would could be executed

Following on from last lesson we carried on with our paired work, this time we was given the task of focusing certain keywords that we could incorporate/improve in our movement piece. Our teacher also noted that there was lots of wandering about in our piece, we decided to create new movements but at the same time keeping ourselves contained in a small space. This way there was no excess walking around on stage. Our keywords that we had to focus on were:

• Meet & Part
• Compliment
• Lead & Follow
• Passing

As you can see in the video some movements  are much more noticeable than others. I will break down what each movement represents:

Pull Henri towards me/Pushing him away- Meet & Part

Henri rolls over my back- Passing

Swing each other round- Compliment

Henri leads movement/ I follow- Lead & Follow.

Personally, I did find the compliment movement was difficult to complete, It required me to lean back and use one to pivot at the same time, I just couldn't do it and as you can see in the video, made it look like Henri was puling me however that was not meant to be the case. This comes down the placement of my leg. In order for me to pivot I need to make sure they are supporting one another, with a good posture, I am going to focus on this as the placement of your legs in movement is a very important.