Choreographic Journal: Second Lesson

Hey,

We had our second lesson of dance which was easier than last week because I know how to do what was coming up which give me confidence, which made me feel better about the lesson.  We looked at the stimulus which the teacher used to come up with the dance movements. The picture was by Nicolas Poussin called "The Triumph of David" . This was a interesting picture because it had different actions and different people to look at and get ideas from. We also look at some information about the picture and the text link to the picture. It told us more about the artist and the painting. We circled the words that were related to movement, words which help us come up with movements that we had to make for our own 10 minters of choreography.  This was helpful as it gave us more information to work with.  I was in front of my friend, so we show each other what we come up with. This was easier to do than last week as I felt more confident about doing it,  not as self-conscious.  This was partly due to knowing my classmates better and also not being afraid I was getting it wrong.   So I feel I have overcome one of my weaknesses from the last lesson. We went on to learn a different dance routine which I started out fine because it was simple and I could remember it  but then I had trouble following piece like the floor work and quick movement with lots of hand twisting, but I feel like I tried and it went better than last week. Which shows the importance of rehearsals, practise and breaking down tasks in to manageable chunks.

We got our Assignment this week, which is to make up our own choreographic piece which last for 1:30-2 minutes. We need to find stimuli that we can create from. I did look at a poem I found on Pinterest, I like the poem, but I don't think it is right for this project because I think I may find it hard to come up with movements, so I keep looking and instead of sad poems I would look at happy poems which makes you feel like you could do anything or be anything.   

When chatting about school to my Granny she suggested a song called "Before I grow too old" by Tommy McLain. I really like the is song as it has a good beat, it quite uplifting and I  could use the music and not have the words playing.listen to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_KF-LdHK8Q


I started to think about what makes me, me and thought about libraries.  I love to read and you can sit or stand,about the different ways people read or look at books and I could take movements from that. I need to find some music to go with this idea. So I was thinking I could use music that is slow to begin with, that feels like you are choosing a book, then you have it go to an up beat song and that shows you going to a different world with every book should take you on.  I feel this could be a really good idea if I used my knowledge of reading a story and the feelings I go though as I reading. 
Remember keep dancingJenny