Devising- Thursday 10th september

Today in the lesson we looked at contact improvisation and how it could bring a scene of unity to our devised piece and improve our focus and trust in each other because of what you need to do. We started by watching a contemporary dance piece from so you think you can dance. This helped us with understanding how you need to keep a point of connection with each other most the time. Even though contact improvisation is similar to contemporary it is also different as in contact improvisation there is always a point of contact. This point could be physical or static depending on the style you are going for.

We then got into pair and pick of theme for what we wanted our contact improvisation to be on and me and meg decided that we were going to create it on a car crash. We then had to put a sequence of 8 movements together keeping a point of contact all the time. We then performed the piece then had to add balancing of weight and taking each others weight. Then we got into our devising groups and picked another one of our ideas to work on for this lesson and we decided to go with slavery. We didn't get to finish the piece by the end of the lesson so we were continuing on in the next lesson we have miss Cordell.