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CRY ME A RIVER - Justin Timberlake - Dance Video

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Our psa theme is power and I think that it connects with the choreography by the way the dancers use strong movements and sharp dynamics. An example of this is when they run into the line and the male ripples backwards and the girls follow in cannon. it shows the power of the male over the females. Power can mean a lot of different things like ability, potential, strength. in this case I think it refers more to strength and it is shown through out this dance with the use of strong dynamics. there is a moment in particular where the man performs a solo, this shows how he has the power to perform alone where as the females are a part of a group.

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We rehearse two times a week roughly and use one lesson a week for research and analyzing our process. We will use mostly youtube with the help from our teacher, she will use it to slow it down and help us learn better. We will also be using recordings of ourselves to track progress we make.

Week 1: we are going to start learning the dance in this week. slowing down the video on youtube will help us learn it as we can move slower with it

Week 2: learn more of the dance, spend some time focusing on the movement and alignment of the moves

Week 3: refine the choreography we have learnt so far and record ourselves doing it for milestone 1

Week 4: speeding up the music so we can go through the dance quickly so when we do it at normal speed it should be easier

Week 5: we have learnt all the choreography by now and we just need to keep practicing to get it the best as possible

Week 6: we have now filmed it for the last time before our performance we should be ready by now

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Warming up and cooling down

warming up and cooling down is extremley important when it comes to dance and any exercise . to be safe throught the warm up you need movements to increase the heartrate and that slighty increase the temperature of your muscles . warming up helps the body to get the blood pumping and decreases the risk of tearing muscles getting cramps and many more injuries . cooling down is as important as warming up because it lets the heartrate and blood pressure slowly recover preexercise levels and bring your body back to baseline

Safe dance space

in order to keep things safe in the dance studio we need to make sure there is nothing on the floor as this can be a big hazard whilst we are dancing . Also to ensure we are safe we need to keep in mind the temperature of the room because we dont want to overheat our bodies as this could be dangerous to . We need to make sure all drinks and food are kept away from the dancing area as we could sleep or step on something throughout the session .

Attire

Whilst we are dancing / performing it is important we wear the correct uniform because it will ensure we have adequate mobility during the class, improper clothing can impact the tequichne and precision which means we wouldn’t be working to the best of our ability

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Week 1: to start us off we learnt 3 8 counts this was quite difficult to pick up on seeing as it was a new choreography . i set a goal to myself to improve my behavior throughout the sessions and to work on my punctuality .

Week 2: as it got to week 2 we had by then learnt five 8 counts but before we moved on we had to make sure we had perfected it.

Week 3: We has now perfected the beginning of the cry me a river choreography and started to move forward. We carried on watching the dance repeatedly and replicated what the dancers were doing. Additionally, we made sure to listen to the lyrics of the song to help us with our timings.

Week 4: By this stage, we had developed an understanding of the dancers and how the choreography worked. However, we still had to work on our timing.

Week 5: At this point, we had got the timing together and made sure we recorded our performances to view our progress.

Week 6: it is now performance day and we have have got what we think is our best replication of andrews choreography . we recorded it for the last time and discussed our opinions on our progress throughout the 6 weeks

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Our first video footage of rehearsing the choreography i am on the left wearing a blue t shirt

In milestone one we set tasks to complete and challenges to make sure we could replicate the choreography as best as we could . In the first few weeks we repeatedly watched the video to get an idea of how to work with the different techniques and moves throughout the dance this seemed to help very much .

3 things I think that are going well is the cooperation which is really needed when coming to dance and performing seeing as we are working as a group it is a good skill to have . the recilliancd which helps throughout the times when some parts of the choreography got tricky and times were stressful but I seemed to always make sure I bounced back and got my head down to finish off the choreography and confidence , confidence is definitely a key thing to have in my opinion when it comes to performing and rehearsing it helps you feel more powerful within yourself . it will help if you feel any parts are tricky because you will feel confident enough to not care if the technique and choreography are perfect to begin with but you will be Sure they’ll be great and perfected by the end.

I think I could improve on my punctuality and behaviour at times to make sure I’m learning the choreography to the best of my ability . This will help me focus and encourage me more to really get on with the choreography and engage more and have enough time in lessons instead of missing half and not doing as best as I really can

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Exam day , the final performance

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I come on from the right hand side and am wearing a grey jumper with m hair tied back in a pony tail with a plait

I really liked working on Andrews choreography i found it was an inspiring dance to represent power and was suitable for all ability's . i partially liked how the movements glided together throughout this section of choreography and how they incorporated dance characteristics such as cannon. however i do think some movements could be tricky to pick up on because of the speed but after a while it comes naturally. another thing i love about the choreography is the way Andrew has clearly shown it is a contemporary dance by the way their movement emphasizes the use of gravity, momentum , moving on and off balance and suspension .

5 skills i wanted to get better at was coordination because during rehearls we made errors within coordanation , balance was the next one because if we got our balance right it would help to clean up the dance and straighten up some parts of the choreography , strength in lines would also help to make the moves look powerful , transisitons will help so i cn make sure i get in the right place for the next 8 counts , and elavation and energy to really help boost the dance moves to the best of my ability .

In rehearsals these things improved by practicing by using the mirrors to repeatedly practice the challenging bits of the choreography and difficult techniques. My peers also helped me improve by giving me tips and working on the different techniques throughout the sessions . We made sure to watch the videos over and over again to see our improvement.

For the skill coordination to help us improve we made sure to go through the dance slowly and talk it through with each other to help not get us muddled up and warm up we used to help with coordination was either doing skipping or balancing on one leg and moving a part of our upper body . Another skill we improved on was energy we did lots of different warm ups such as running in different directions, and stretching to get the blood pumping around the body to help give us have the energy we need to get the dance as best as we can .

The 3 aims to improve in our final rehearsal we’re to perfect the timing by really listening to the song and making sure we were in all time with each other as a class , another improvement was to really extended all the movements to show how strong and powerful they were and as our last improve the to really make sure our body language is as best as it can be and to make sure the audience could see us and really understand us throughout our body language

The feedback from the audience that was most given was very good timing and coordination which I definitely agree on because of how much we persevered to get that as good as we could during rehearsals.

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We did not get any footage of our second milestone as we were absent from school due to being unwell. however

at milestone 2 we had completed the first tasks we had set ourselves and gotten past the hard bit of working on the choreography and all we had left to do was perfecting it .by the last week we had perfected the choreography and was ready to perform

Things that I think I’m doing well at is perseverance confidence and working hard at learning the dance as best as I can . Perseverance in my opinion is extremely important to have because of the time period we have to learn the dance. I think i need to perform more when i am practicing like make my movements bigger as i make them small.

In milestone 2 I still think my punctuality could be worked on as i tend to be late but as soon as I arrive I make sure to get my head down and work as hard as I can

I also noticed when re watching the video of us practicing that we made some errors with directions but we definitely made sure to go back over the video to relearn the right directions

Peer feedback

Frankie has worked hard to learn the choreography so far, she needs to come out of her insecurity of performing and build up her confidence.

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Andrew Winghart
Andrew is a los Angeles based director and choreographer he is known for his high energy and unique compositions . Andrew went to university on a full-tution academic scholarship which he then graduated with in may 2014 which led him to move on to his own creations. Andrews latest project `cry me a river ' obtained him a feature in the time magazine online publication and he quickly began to gain millions of views . Rapidly after he got invited to choreograph a performance for lin manuel-miranda and auli'l Carvalho at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. This information shows how quickly Andrew grew as a choreographer and how his work was appreciated by many.

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Here you can see in the first week of rehearsals we had messed up on directions but taking the time throughout the weeks of rehearsals we made sure to really watch the video of Andrews choreography to make sure we could perfected the directions an any other mistakes that came up along the way by the end you can see that the practicing did in fact help and we did get the directions right

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(Grey jumper hair in pony tail 2nd in line from front)

I really like the power I put into the movements as you can see in the video I think it really helped by building up confidence over the weeks of rehearsals to get to the ending performance with strong movements and a lot of confidence

I also think my body language helped the audience get an understanding of the theme power buy making sure I was facing them when needed and standing tall and strong

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One improvement that still needed to picked up on was not getting distracted by my peers around me and seeing what they was doing and remember what ways to face at the right time . I have reflected and realised next time I needed to make sure I was really focusing and just thinking about me and what I should be doing at that time overall theatre wasn’t a major issue just at times