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Sally Croft
Courtney Holland
Charlotte Williams
Sophie Roberts
Sicily Taylor

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We use a ternary structure with a narrative...
we are the awa tribe in the Amazon rainforest and we are in danger of loosing everything we have due to deforestation, our space and resources become limited.

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This is how we are going to have the facepaint  to resemble the tribe

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Explains how they are "teetering on the edge of extinction" due to deforestation, this is what our narrative is based on.
Chamberlain, G. (2012). 'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/22/brazil-rainforest-awa-endangered-tribe [Accessed 1 Nov. 2018].

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Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back - incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of the world's greatest rainforest and its most endangered tribe, the Awá.

Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back - incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of the world's greatest rainforest and its most endangered tribe, the Awá.

Yet as they travelled through the jungle early this year, the small team from Funai - Brazil's National Indian Foundation - did not dare try to stop the loggers; the vehicle was too large and the loggers were almost certainly armed. All they could do was video the lorry and add the film to the growing mountain of evidence showing how the Awá - with only 355 surviving members, more than 100 of whom have had no contact with the outside world - are teetering on the edge of extinction.

It is a scene played out throughout the Amazon as the authorities struggle to tackle the powerful illegal logging industry. But it is not just the loss of the trees that has created a situation so serious that it led a Brazilian judge, José Carlos do Vale Madeira, to describe it as "a real genocide". People are pouring on to the Awá's land, building illegal settlements, running cattle ranches. Hired gunmen - known as pistoleros - are reported to be hunting Awá who have stood in the way of land-grabbers. Members of the tribe describe seeing their families wiped out. Human rights campaigners say the tribe has reached a tipping point and only immediate action by the Brazilian government to prevent logging can save the tribe.

This week Survival International will launch a new campaign to highlight the plight of the Awá, backed by Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth. In a video to be launched on Wednesday, Firth will ask the Brazilian government to take urgent action to protect the tribe. The 51-year-old, who starred in last year's hit movie The King's Speech, and came to prominence playing Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, delivers an appeal to camera calling on Brazil's minister of justice to send in police to drive out the loggers.

The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gathering tribes left in the Amazon. According to Survival, they are now the world's most threatened tribe, assailed by gunmen, loggers and hostile settler farmers.

Their troubles began in earnest in 1982 with the inauguration of a European Economic Community (EEC) and World Bank-funded programme to extract massive iron ore deposits found in the Carajás mountains. The EEC gave Brazil $600m to build a railway from the mines to the coast, on condition that Europe received a third of the output, a minimum of 13.6m tons a year for 15 years. The railway cut directly through the Awá's land and with the railway came settlers. A road-building programme quickly followed, opening up the Awá's jungle home to loggers, who moved in from the east.

It was, according to Survival's research director, Fiona Watson, a recipe for disaster. A third of the rainforest in the Awá territory in Maranhão state in north-east Brazil has since been destroyed and outsiders have exposed the Awá to diseases against which they have no natural immunity.

"The Awá and the uncontacted Awá are really on the brink," she said. "It is an extremely small population and the forces against them are massive. They are being invaded by loggers, settlers and cattle ranchers. They rely entirely on the forest. They have said to me: 'If we have no forest, we can't feed our children and we will die'."

But it appears that the Awá also face a more direct threat. Earlier this year an investigation into reports that an Awá child had been killed by loggers found that their tractors had destroyed the Awá camp.

"It is not just the destruction of the land; it is the violence," said Watson. "I have talked to Awá people who have survived massacres. I have interviewed Awá who have seen their families shot in front of them. There are immensely powerful people against them. The land-grabbers use pistoleros to clear the land. If this is not stopped now, these people could be wiped out. This is extinction taking place before our eyes."

What is most striking about the Funai undercover video of the loggers - apart from the sheer size of the trunks - is the absence of jungle in the surrounding landscape. Once the landscape would have been lush rainforest. Now it has been clear-felled, leaving behind just grass and scrub and only a few scattered clumps of trees.

Such is the Awá's affinity with the jungle and its inhabitants that if they find a baby animal during their hunts they take it back and raise it almost like a child, to the extent that the women will sometimes breastfeed the creature. The loss of their jungle has left them in a state of despair. "They are chopping down wood and they are going to destroy everything," said Pire'i Ma'a, a member of the tribe. "Monkeys, peccaries, tapir, they are all running away. I don't know how we are going to eat - everything is being destroyed, the whole area.

"This land is mine, it is ours. They can go away to the city, but we Indians live in the forest. They are going to kill everything. Everything is dying. We are all going to go hungry, the children will be hungry, my daughter will be hungry, and I'll be hungry too."

In an earlier interview with Survival, another member of the tribe, Karapiru, described how most of his family were killed by ranchers. "I hid in the forest and escaped from the white people. They killed my mother, my brothers and sisters and my wife," he said. "When I was shot during the massacre, I suffered a great deal because I couldn't put any medicine on my back. I couldn't see the wound: it was amazing that I escaped - it was through the Tupã [spirit]. I spent a long time in the forest, hungry and being chased by ranchers. I was always running away, on my own. I had no family to help me, to talk to. So I went deeper and deeper into the forest.

"I hope when my daughter grows up she won't face any of the difficulties I've had. I hope everything will be better for her. I hope the same things that happened to me won't happen to her."

The Survival campaign reflects growing international concern over the plight of the world's remaining indigenous tribes. Earlier this year the Observer revealed how police were colluding with tour operators in India's Andaman Islands to run human safaris into the jungle heartland of the protected Jarawa tribe. A video showing half-naked Jarawa women and girls dancing in return for food caused outrage in India and around the world. Further revelations followed, exposing human safaris in Orissa, in India, and in Peru, where tour operators are profiting from the exploitation of Amazon jungle tribes.

Meanwhile, drug traffickers are posing a threat to other Amazon tribes. Last year a previously uncontacted tribe was photographed from the air close to the Peru-Brazil border only to go missing a few months later after a gang of drug traffickers overpowered guards protecting their land.

The Brazilian embassy in London referred requests for a response to the president's Human Rights Secretariat, which did not respond. However, Brazil has recently been able to point to research that shows it has been making progress in tackling illegal logging. The country's National Institute for Space Research estimates that 6,238 sq km of rainforest was lost between 2010 and 2011, down dramatically from the 2004 peak of 27,700 sq km. The same year, Brazil pledged to cut deforestation by 80% by 2020.

The year-on-year fall last year was 11% and in March Brazil's forestry department raided and closed down 14 illegal sawmills on the borders of the Awá's land. Even so, the figures also show that two states recorded sharp rises in deforestation, and illegal logging is destroying the Awá's jungle at a faster rate than that of any other Amazon tribe.

In a statement, Survival urged the Brazilian government to give more support to Funai and to increase its efforts to shut down illegal activities in the Awá's territories. "Timing is crucial, and the timing of this is now, because while all hope is not lost an entire people are on the verge of being lost, most critically the uncontacted Awá. And we have a moral responsibility to act. EU and World Bank money has helped fund huge projects in Brazil that have exploited the Awá's land resources and made infrastructure ripe for developers."
The Survival International campaign will launch later this week at survivalinternational.org Topics

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'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help

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Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá, a tribe of just 355. Survival International, with backing from Colin Firth, is campaigning to stop what a judge referred to as 'genocide'

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After Emer had said to make the performance more dramatic and make it seem like the last stick was being snatched from us rather than us giving it up, this is what we changed it to

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Canon
Tableau
Levels
Formations
Accumulation
Contact
Unison
Locomotor movement
Climax
Motif
Improvisation
Symmetry
Repetition
Augmentation
Tempo
Insertation

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This is where we fight each other during the middle/hunt section, before going into the house section.

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This is part of the hunt section, where we create another short tableau of Sophie where she carries out a spearing action

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The canon we do when we loose the first stick on that falling, knocking sound effect red riddom

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Buying the sticks

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The day we bought the sticks and had to saw them down to size

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Here I found that the tribes all where to different makeup to signify different things such as a age, gender and personal achievements. this makes them all unique and individual, which is where the idea of having material tied around different parts if out body for our costume came from.

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Other Amazonian tribes, such as the Mayoruna, have been known to paint their faces with elements to expand the human identity. This may include designs that 'transform' the wearer into an animal or mystical figure such as a God, so that they will be able to take on their powers. One typical design is face paint to make the wearer look like a powerful jungle animal such as a jaguar, intended to give the wearer the strength and ability of the animal. In other cases, these transformations are used in rituals in which the wearer impersonates an animal or god, and thus 'becomes' them for the ceremony.

Within tribes such as the Munduruki, designs may not be meant to transfer powers, but simply convey beautiful patterns found in nature. Tortoise-shell patterns are common daily face paint designs.

To Incite Fear

The Matses tribe is known for their distinctive face painting, often a combination of black and red across the face. It is believed to make the wearer appear fierce, and intends to frighten outsiders (such as neighboring tribes they may have to defend themselves against).

Coming of Age

Face paint, as with other decorative devices, also signifies a coming of age within Amazon tribes. One notable example is the Tikuna tribe, which uses black genipapo dye in coming of age ceremonies for women. The black face paint and adornments of eagle feathers dress the girl as she performs a series of rituals and becomes a woman.

In War

Many tribes around the world have relied on face paint as a means of 'war paint', and the Yanomamo tribe is amongst them. This tribe is known for their facial piercings and everyday body paint, however they also use face paint in times of war with other villages. Black paint covers their faces and bodies to show their fierceness, and that they are preparing for war.

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Meaning Behind Face Paint of Amazon Tribes

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Other Amazonian tribes, such as the Mayoruna, have been known to paint their faces with elements to expand the human identity. This may include designs that 'transform' the wearer into an animal or mystical figure such as a God, so that they will be able to take on their powers.

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A acrobatic group dance based on people from the jungle. We liked the use of dramatic music, we need to use similar intensity through the music for our final section because this will be when we loose all the sticks and we have nothing left.
youtube (2015). The Jungle - Dance Starz Academy - Beyond The Stars Nationals 2014. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zovDARy6p0 [Accessed 1 Nov. 2018].

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The Jungle - Dance Starz Academy - Beyond The Stars Nationals 2014

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The Awa tribe is one of the most endangered tribes living in the rain forest due to deforestation. This is the narrative that flows through our piece. Also here is evidence of them using resources to hunt, this is exactly what we show especially during the middle section of tour dance when we use the sticks and all of the available space.

Also COSTUME INSPIRATION each member of the tribe is wearing some sort of different accessory, each making them individual. We should do this, have the same base layer and then each have something different. Material could be wrapped around or waists, head, arms and ankles, but each be different.

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We use the rain effect to conclude our dance. It follows the silence left from the last song. Here we now have to shelter each other from the rain rather than before where we made a shelter using the sticks. Leaving the audience with a poignant message. Also the use of rain synonymous with the Amazon rain forest, again highlighting or theme. Took inspiration from the dance video we watched - 'The Tribe'
Youtube (2015). 10 Minutes of relaxing rain sounds for Meditation. Ideal for Beginners. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbVYuPogyP0 [Accessed 15 Nov. 2018].

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10 Minutes of relaxing rain sounds for Meditation. Ideal for Beginners

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Here we researched what a circle dance even was and what it symbolizes. It is danced at important events and highlights togetherness of the tribe, hence why we perform it our circle dance at the start of the dance to show the tribe as a whole.
En.wikipedia.org. (2018). Circle dance. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_dance [Accessed 01 Nov. 2018].

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Modern circle dancing is found in many cultures, including Arabic ( Levantian and Iraqi), Israeli (see Jewish dance and Israeli folk dancing), Assyrian, Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Maltese, and South Eastern European (i.e. Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek and Serbian, to name a few).

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This music is what we use in the final section, act 3, where we are having to dance within the boundaries set by the sticks. It still has chants in the music however they are much more sparse and faint. Linking to the other songs we use earlier as they include chants, however they are much more upbeat and repetitive and our movements are more lively.
we use the music from 20.05 mins in until 22.29.
Youtube (2017). 1 Hour of Dark & Powerful Viking Music. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1292&v=VhkfnPVQyaY [Accessed 12 Nov. 2018].

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We've used a chant from this music (24.35 - 24.53) to link the song 'Bread and cheese' into 'Red Riddom'. Here Courtney improvises in the middle at a high standing level, whilst the rest of us move around the space and move to stand behind her in a low standing level.
Youtube (2014). Native American Round Dance Music. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=555&v=txFWJbHgcMM [Accessed 11 Nov. 2018].

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This song is what opens the piece, where at the start we are all 'sleeping'. This is complimented by the music because it is quite relaxing and introduces the piece nicely.
Also we used this video to inspire a later section of our piece, in the back of the video there are tribe men dancing, performing stamping and skipping steps. Not too dissimilar to house movements we see today, we we include a small section of house inspired steps into the piece.
Youtube (2012). Oldest Native American drumming video ever. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igmpvrRQIkI [Accessed 31 Oct. 2018].

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Oldest Native American drumming video ever

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We liked the red across the eyes, it really stands out, and as we don't have the funds to spend on a really lavish costume, we can spend more time on perfecting the makeup, its cheaper and i think would be easier to get the theme of Tribes across.
We also plan on putting the paint on our arms and legs too.

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created the circle dance section into the introduction of the sticks, we had to use bottles to represent the sticks during this rehearsal as we hadn't a this point bought the sticks.

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created the circle dance section into the introduction of the sticks.

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This music is were we begin to loose the sticks, metaphorically speaking our resources and our forest. It includes a falling and knocking sound effect that we liked as it resembles to us the tress of the forest falling down. On this sound effect we used canon.
Youtube (2013). A Tribe Called Red - Red Riddom feat. Eastern Eagle. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXQTBKyO03U [Accessed 2 Nov. 2018].

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A Tribe Called Red - Red Riddom feat. Eastern Eagle

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We use this music for the second section, where we show us all performing the 'circle dance', and for the first section where we all have our sticks and 'hunt'.
Youtube (2013). A Tribe Called Red - Bread & Cheese feat. Black Bear. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqECTR82Ua0 [Accessed 1 Nov. 2018].

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A Tribe Called Red - Bread & Cheese feat. Black Bear

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A group dance based around a tribe. They've incorporated sticks and a circle dance, so we've taken inspiration from this and included both of those things. I also like how they have used the sound of rain at the beginning, so this is something we can incorporate into our piece as well to highlight that we are a tribe from the amazon rain forest. I didn't like how the music wasn't greatly edited and the music itself was too repetitive that it became boring to watch because they ended up doing the same type of movements and the performed at the same tempo because the music was too repetitive.
Youtube (2014). The Tribe - Production Competition Dance (Juniors). [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZje8_T5hzI [Accessed 31 Oct. 2018].

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The Tribe - Production Competition Dance (Juniors)

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The final section
Our research told us that the Awa tribe can be aggressive so we have moments where we fight over the last stick.

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We began creating the end section to the piece where we only have one stick left to share between five of us

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This is our beginning section, where we do a small motif on the floor. This section signifies the tribe starting out their day.

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This is the start of the circle dance, we will continue to develop this and the use of the circular formation.

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This is the space that all five of us have to dance within at the end of the piece. so we are much more confined and our movement are smaller when we perform within this perimeter.

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This is the visual of the shelter that we create around me using the four remaining sticks