Single-Movement in Performance

This lesson we wanted bock the torch-ography, we have spent a lot of time on this part of our masterpiece. So much so that other parts of our masterpiece are incomplete which is why we desired to complete it this lesson, this will give us time to go over everything in a running order and polish other parts for our final performance. Before this lesson began our producer noted that this piece is very physical theatre-ish and suggested that we include more contemporary/lyrical dance in it. Lyrical dance is when a movement as a meaning to it and it is impactful for the audience, much more 'dramatic' in some sense where as movement in Physical theatre is usually used to portray something rather than carrying a message behind it.  We also had to take into account that we needed to incorporate more R.A.D.S into our pieces, so we decided to add some more Dynamic movements. At 0.52 you can see our inclusion of light weighted  movements, flicking and sustained movements also. All of

This lesson we decided to focus on my part of our piece. As a group we had decided that we wanted to each represent a some sort of character that as a type of body dysmorphia, I wanted to focus on the issues that surround transgender people, focusing on the the way they feel- they're born in the wrong body. Alice was going to take part in my piece so we was given ownership over this part of our masterpiece. Alice suggested that we use a number from the hit musical 'Kinky Boots', called 'I'm Not My Father's Son'. Although this song is about being a drag queen, we believed that the lyrics still transmit the same notion as it would to a transgender person in some way. We did try and devise some movement to the original soundtrack however we soon discovered that it was too fast for us so we considered looking for another version, luckily we came across an acoustic version which we decided to go with- the acoustic version also gave us the right tempo for our move

This lesson we focused on completing Alice's part of our masterpiece, focusing and incorporating R.A.D.S this is our end product of the lesson, it is still incomplete however we will develop this in the future. 0.00-0.20- Here you can see that we used the canon aspect of R.A.D.S to symbolize that we are waking up in unison and getting ready to do a 'morning routine'. 0.28-0.32- We had previously discussed what we do when we get up in the morning, everyone said they look at their mobile phones, we thought picking our phones up symbolizes this. 0.34-0.39- This movement incorporates the word 'flow' from dynamics. The movement is very free in terms of moving our arms and represents us stretching/waking up. 0.56-1.00- This movement again is a another form of a free movement (dynamics) as well as it being in unison, however this time we incorporate the whole use of our upper torso. I feel this movement represents how girls are moulded in