Completing our Torchography

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 which lie with Dynamics, these type of movements also intertwine with the idea of lyrical dance. Furthermore, at 1.12-1.15, we implemented as new rush forward and raise of our torches to create a sudden movement. We also included parts of relationship, for example at 0.45 you can see we all move round Chloe in unison with will swapping her place.

We still have around 14 more bars of 4 beats of music to fill with other movement which we will complete fully next lesson. We need to block this piece as soon as possible.

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