Compare and Contrast R.A.D.S within 2 dance

R.A.D.S- Action

This lesson was focused on the Action in R.A.D.S. Again, there are key words for Action and they are: Elevation Jump Landing Hop Preparation Take off Leap Two feet to one Two feet to two One foot to two Turns Twisting Whole body turn Rolling Pivoting Spinning Travel In a Group Rolling Stepping Slidding With a partner Walking, Running Technical, pedestrian Stylistic differences As a transition Gesture Functional (e.g. beckon, nod, salute) Non functional (e.g. abstract) Conversational (e.g. gesticulate, social e.g. hug) Emotional (e.g. wring hands) Stillness and falling Pause Shape Tableaux Use of centre to aid balance On and off balance Suspension Fall and recovery After learning the words for Action we was then put into pairs with an assigned word we had to focus on as well as a stimulus which was a picture of two elderly people walking in opposite directions however their shadows casted their younger selves....

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 inc...

Creating a mirror

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...

Single-Movement in Performance

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