Today we looked at videos from the dance company DV8 and look at their physical theatre movement in relation to our play DFTA.
This is an example of their work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShJJr1ztkM
The way they move is very relevant to DFTA, in the different ways they use the parts of their body to explain or show how they feel or want to say. I personally really liked there work. I thought it was really clever and very easy to understand. There was a specific dance where this man uses his whole body and uses lots of different motifs to show feeling. I really liked this piece and it looked like it worked really well.
After watching their videos and getting lots of ideas from them, we started to do some choreographing on our DFTA dances in Act 3. We started the main dance in Act 3, which was the animal taming routine. It was really easy, but when we knew we had to play animals, we knew it was going to be a lot more trickier than we thought. Sam told us to get into pairs and think of any animal movements and come up with a count of 8 to start with. So I got into pairs with Emily and we came up with a monkey movement. We knew monkeys walked very low and sort of shuffled and not walked, so we did that and made lots of monkey movements with our arms. Also monkeys swing on trees, so that came into our little duet routine. When we did it looked really good. Throughout the rest of the routine its about the animals escaping as they get captured and Sam vaguely started to choreograph that bit. We all came in together into the middle and all tried to struggle to escape.
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