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After seeing a small preview of what the final performance piece could look like, I was amazed by the sensational editing, transitions, detail and thought that had gone into behind the scenes of making the film. It was a shame and disappointing that we wasn’t able to perform this to a live audience but for the sake of keeping everyone safe and healthy this was still an amazing opportunity that we was given and something that we can have and keep for a life time.

The final piece and it’s effectiveness with communicating the idea through the use and idea of movement was to make sure that the audience could figure out  the storyline and the theme in which we was intending to portray. The audience being our family members and the three other companies and showing this through the power of online zoom, and was that they get a feeling of our performance piece and so we could share our amazing ability and skills with everyone else.

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The biggest challenge that I faced throughout this process of the project was most certainly my on going medical issue with my knees, this did put me in frustration situations at times, as I wasn’t able to perform or do certain movements like everyone else. I had to adapt and develop the movements so they was suitable for me to perform them to the best of my ability. The improvisation and choreographic tasks played a massive role within this, as it made it easier for me to create movement in which I knew I could perform and I wouldn’t look different to others as it would be my movement to style and structure.

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The inspiration behind my thought process during the time of this project, was my choreographer and teacher, watching the way that he dances and the passion that he has for what he does is amazing. Just throughout every lesson without a doubt he has love and gratitude for every day that he’s blessed with and he pushes it on to us, I know when I have this lesson I’m gonna feel at ease, calm and relaxed and no matter what the day brings he will make sure that the class being positive vibes and attitudes only.

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My choreographer is an amazing person and his positive and up lifting attitude makes everyone in the class feel alive, appreciated and wanted within the dance studio and feels like it’s a safe space.

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He noticed something good in my solo work that I produced and gave me the opportunity to show it off to the class and teach them, in which something I’m very proud of.

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We used this opportunity to perform in our groups and used workshops and choreographic tasks to create movement using improvisational ideas to structure and communicate the choreographic ideas and themes effectively.

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-Power is unity
-Power is division
-A job role entitles the power that you have over someone else.
-When you have control of your own situation is a sense of power.
-Power, Unity and Division in the work place creates a totally different atmosphere.
-We feel most powerful when in a job role that we are confident in. Our colleagues that are in the same role have the same amount of power. Which makes us equal.
-Those in a higher role, having more power can sometimes cause a divide between other individuals.

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Before returning to the studios, my highlight of this developmental process so far was that I was able to learn the majority of the content through the online lessons and while working in such a small space. I managed to create a solo which for myself I always thought impossible as creating and improvising isn’t my strong point, but I was extremely happy with how my solo turned out and for it to be developed into other small motifs.

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We filmed the last final touches that needed to be placed into the end product.

Which was polishing off and cleaning the movements for the transitions to be neat enough for the film to look amazing.

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Looking back on the past couple of weeks working with this company wether it was on online or the only few lessons we had back in the studios, I felt as if I overcome multiple obstacles and milestones, such as dislocating my knee and having the constant worry that my knee was going to dislocate again if I pushed myself to hard, but luckily this wasn’t the case and I was able to do so with my limitations in place and I felt that I gave 100% in the lessons for it to show on the final performance video. I  wanted to give it my all in this module just like I do all the other modules I took but this one I felt that I was able to show my true potential.  Working alongside the other students and the teacher was an absolute pleasure and we worked so well with each other, took on each others strengths and weaknesses, adapted, developed and throughout pushed each other to show our best. We gave ideas over to the teacher who took them on board, used them and we discussed how to develop them to over come a better outcome.

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Due to not being able to attend because of face to face teaching have to stop for this teaching week. An online session was made for us to all to come together to watch each others pieces from all four company's. We discussed as groups what we felt went successful within the four lessons that we had and what could of possibly made them more interesting or better.

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Below are attached videos from this lesson which show a progress in my work which I was given feedback to improve and change.

https://kingston.app.box.com/folder/132408090078?s=awh06u1sa0l6m7cato0vq3plw5i9jzyy

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We worked on our trios and filmed it for our final performance piece to be placed in the film.

Cleaning and clarifying was the purpose of this lesson, and it was needed to be done so everyone was clear on the structure of the piece and the movements, as we was filming certain sections for the final piece to be placed into the video.

The choreographing was by three of the other students who I was placed in a group with. We supported each others professional work and the choreographic theory behind it and how it could show within the theme we was putting forward.

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In this lesson, we ran through the work as a company and placed ourself in a formation for the piece. It was the first time dancing since being online and for the first time it was looking strong with only a few adjustments that needed to be made. In regards to some of us doing the wrong leg or arm as online it looks the other way, was the only small adjustments that needed to be changed.

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In today’s lesson, we worked on duets, cleaning it ready for filming. While others in the class filmed there trios and duets, me and another student when searching round the town house for interesting locations for moments of filming that could look different to the normal background of the dance studios.

We then took on the role of creating a canon section of my solo which everyone learnt in previous weeks, we created this on the stairs in the  auditorium and had 2 people on separate stairs for it to look in a diamond shape and for the canon to look affective.

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Below you will see a box link attached which shows various videos from this lesson, each video has different strengths and weaknesses, I hit certain movements and then other videos I don't  hit them as good as I know I could.  My aim for the next lesson is to have a continuous strength happen throughout when rehearsing.
The strategies and choreographic tools that I used for me to improve on in the future lessons was to rehearse in my own time, to slow down the movements and refine them so that the details of the movements are very specific, clean and so they come across very strong.

https://kingston.box.com/s/awh06u1sa0l6m7cato0vq3plw5i9jzyy

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We had to develop our solos but improving and creating on from the original hand gestures in regards to the motifs in the piece and by playing around with the levels, dynamics and directions.

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Before this video, we had to perform our solo to another student and they watched and evaluated and gave us feedback, my feedback was to not perform everything so low, to use different levels and to slow down some of my movements and change the dynamics.

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Due to having an on going knee injury, there’s limits as to what I can and can’t do, this leads to adapting and possibly changing the movement so I don’t look like the others.
I know my limits and how I can dance and how my body adapts to the movements.
It’s frustrating but I will continue to do what I have been doing and change movements such as standing up when others are sitting on the floor, to not bend down as far as others can, to change the levels so it’s comfortable for me to do so.

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Putting my solo to the new music as it was a different beat and changing were needed. I’m concentrating, choreographing and figuring out what movement should go where and what will look best and look the strongest.

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Survive -means to be able to live on the smallest things one has in the moment and use them to get through a certain situation. I think survival is about one being determined to overcome those circumstances by having something they hold on to or something that gives them hope to keep going or to not give up.

Survival means overcoming challenges throughout life. It can be the simple things of surviving in life by ensuring that you have drunk water, eaten, looked after yourself during the day. The bare minimum, it is just existing, if your surviving you are just fulfilling the basic things you need to do.

The sense of being able to live and making the most out of what you have got in life. Going through struggles of day to day life and just getting on with it. Getting through the most thickest and thinnest of challenges and pushing yourself to over come them.

The most ultimate desperation to continue the gift of live. Putting your heart and soul into fighting for the rights that you are utterly entitled to, the response to being placed in a situation which could determine your future, success and destiny. Feeling out of control, but fighting to regain the feeling of purpose.

A state that makes you fight for your existence or passionate belief. Living by the means of necessary, prevailing through all obstacles at hand. To fight against negative circumstances and find away to move on. Find the light where the negative is.

Survival to me is a passionate fight and heart full effort to be yourself despite of the sometimes tough and manipulative surroundings. It’s not give up and get through things life throws at you.

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Due to me and my partner being out because of medical reasons, I have a knee brace on so I couldn’t physically dance but we decided to create movement just using our arms, in the video it feels as if we done a question and answer but with my partner being able to stand up and move a bit more than what I can. The arm movements express power, the fists and arm throwing shows this.

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The videos below show more choreography which was added on from last lesson and which we was taught, which showed a nice clear diverse use of dynamics going from one section to another section.

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I felt that today’s lesson was meant more for creativity and using our own emotions to express it through our solos and the use of movement behind the word survive for it to be portrayed in the movements.

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The arm movements was mainly portrayed in the wrists, hands and fists as it was to show the meaning of power and how power is held within the palm of your hands, this is how I saw it anyway,  I felt that this gave off a strong feeling and if we are able to perform this in a studio then the footage could be developed more and could be adapted but for now this is something that could be added to the final performance video.

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For this floor section everyone else knelt on their knees but because of the pain I was in with my knees I got given the option to develop it myself so the only way I thought was appropriate and affective was to sit and fold my knees which wouldn’t cause me pain and I was still able to perform all the movements and arm gestures cleared and effectively.

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To create 2 lots of 8 counts using just gestural hand movements, for them to be rigid and strong and not soft or flowing.

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Learning content- below in this video I’m full of excitement at the end as I get the movements correctly throughout, I had done this many times and confused myself with learning it online and my right and left being backwards to the choreographer and everyone else on the screen, this is a battle that everyone faced during the online lessons but it’s something that we all achieved and succeeded well in for the final piece to look amazing.

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At the end of this motif we got given the chance to feel the music and the beat of the song and to just relax and let the body flow within the rhythm and to let go.

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Unfortunately in another module I managed to dislocate my knee so for the foreseeable of these lessons I was out watching and observing from the side. I managed to watch and portray my thoughts and opinions to the rest of the class, wether it be the timing of the group, the placement of everyone in the space, if anyone was doing opposite left and rights to others.

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This was the start of Beatrice's' lessons weeks commencing 5-12, first lesson we looked into the use of breath, the use of ground and being heavy within the floor.

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To watch and observe the lesson,
Notice the differences in the girls, to readjust them, specific tiny details, wether it be an arm out of place, foot not in the right place than others, heads not low enough,

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During this lesson I wasn’t able to make it as I was in a lot of pain with my knee, I did in fact gather a task given to me by the teacher who passed it through to me by another member of the class, In regards to researching into the word power. What power means to me and coming up with a little script section for us to use in the up coming lessons.

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Observing, watching and picking out tiny details was the aim of this lesson for me and to feedback it to the class for them to improve on and adjust the movement, timing, direction and space for it to look better as a company.

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Picking out specific dancers throughout the lesson, to focus on the angles, the tiny details of for example to hands, the eyes and the way the body moves.

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Warm up- pushed myself, completed 3 reps of 20 sqauts without stopping, changed partners so with the belly crunches I managed to push through 3 sets of 25 whilst motivating and pushing myself and my partner to finish each set.
The sit up sequence I can't quite perform everything as I stop myself due to my knee making it difficult to place in certain positions, so I do change them and adapt to how I can give my 100%. I need to not give up and to persecute to the end of the sequence.

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With the current situation that is happening in this world right now. Lockdowm for people was either a blessing or a nightmare. Lockdown felt as if it went on forever and that we was never going to sense some sort of freedom, for myself I felt like I lost connection with my family, my friends, my social life, my dancing life, my work, my normalisation of the life I had before the pandemic hit us.
The connection that we had with the outside world felt like it was cut off, I never went into one shop in 72 days the only 4 walls I saw was my home, I saw no family, no friends and no routine to every day life. I was fed up, bored, frustrated, annoyed, with life not just the lockdown rules itself, it made me think, made me realise the connection I needed to gain back once things started to go back to normal just a little bit.
This dance makes me feel some sort of normalisation and that the world and the arts it’s gaining it’s connection back with the community.

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The floor was our ground motive for this part which we had to work with, the idea was feeling as if you had lost connection, due to the current situation that’s going on in this world right now. Connection to everyone could be meant in a different way and form. The ground in this section was the safest place to be and that there was comfort and a feeling of warmth.

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First lesson back after lock down and this really pushed me, I felt good, felt as if i was starting a new journey, going on the right track towards and end goal of dancing a new style, toning up and looking after my body and what I need to do to feel and look good.

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Freestyle of improvisation is something I feel so uncomfortable doing. I dislike dancing to music with no choreography.
The walk way theory, made me feel really pressured and that everyone was staring and judging me. I think that’s me overthinking and I can’t come to terms with to just doing it and giving it a go.
When the teacher asked us all to find a spot, face any direction in the room and to close our eyes made me feel as if I was in my own bubble. That it was just me in the room and that I was alone but felt alone in a good way.
Take in feedback from peers and the choreographer wether it’s negative or positive.

Need to remember that everyone dances in their own way and style, need to learn to just do it and to NOT say I CAN’T !!

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Travelling together in close proximity, due to social distancing flocking couldn’t be shown in its true style, so we maintained the distance by first of all just moving in different directions round the group as one. Moving as one, changing directions, adding directions in, creating different levels, controlling the use of the space.

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Beginning of the routine, taking in the choreography, adding our own flavour to it, the piece felt comfortable.
Learning choreography in a style that I like and feel comfortable dancing makes me feel confident and that the piece is a strong start to a good story line.

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Felt more confident with this piece and within this lesson.
During this lesson certain people’s solos got taught to the rest of the class. Styles were fused together, for example
Louisa, Becca and JP‘s style was contemporary, Anna Maria’s style  was ballet and Nikita’s style was Indian.
They all fitted very well within this piece of choreography and they each got a moment of taking over the class to teach the rest of us,
showed a real level of maturity. It showed a good diversity of cultures and people’s background of the style that they are comfortable with to dance and then teach.

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In this video it shows the progression in the lesson of the piece with adding on our own solo parts.
We got given the opportunity to add on are own 2 lots of 8 counts to the piece for it to then be developed later on in the upcoming weeks.

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Today's lesson was preparing us for week 5. We started going over our solo sections from last lesson and making sure everyone in the group knew what they was doing. Finishing and finalising the counts and the movements properly.

We worked on transitions from one set of choreography to the other set so there was no blank spots and there was room for  creativity.

The circle was the section that we drilled today as we was so close to finishing the piece and making it finished so that for the final week we had time to finalise and perfect a few tweaks to the whole piece overall.

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Played around with different lay outs, dynamics,
Spacing, different dancers doing different parts of the choreo!

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Every one of the students in the video below we each taught are solos to eachother for it to then become a section in the piece in the next following week.
First was Anna Maria’s, followed by myself, Nikita, Jelly and then Diannah’s solos. We took the time in this lesson to teach, finalise our counts and add in movements for the transitions to go smoothly into the next solo.

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He understood my knee complications and worked very hard to make me feel included in the lesson and constantly checked up on me throughout my lessons on how I was getting on and if I knew exactly what my alternate movements were as I looked different to the rest of the class sometimes.

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In this video, it shows the elements of the teachers work and then 3 of the students solos, fused together in the piece, with canon effects and freestyle at the beginning to then get us in to the official starting position of the set choreography.

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Another highlight was actually being able to dance again, with no not knowing if I could or not, this was an achievement in itself. I was given the all clear by the hospital to dance but to not obtain or get involved in any floor work, which I didn’t and this worked well in my favours as it created a diverse amount of movements that was different to the others. It made the piece look effective as it had different ranges of levels and showed of the ability of the whole group.

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Again looking at the timing at the end and making sure that each dancer is aware of what movement is where and what time.

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This dancer was used as my example for this part of the choreography as she had the timing spot on and the body and the head/hair flick moved correctly and fast enough at the same time for it to look effective alongside the beats of the music.

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Watching all four companies, they was all very different within the themes that was chosen, but all had a powerful, strong and emotional meaning behind them all which was inspiring to watch.

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The use of breath was a main focus of this lesson as it was showing how to control  it through the movement that was being portrayed.

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Even though I am out of the knee brace and very grateful to be dancing again even though it’s small amounts of dancing it’s a case of being able to over emphasise my upper body to hide the fact I can’t do much with my lower body.

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Internet Definition -
1 : Possession of control, authority, or influence over others.
2 : A nation that has influence among other nations a foreign power.
3 : The ability to act or produce an effect It's in your power to change things.
4 : The right to do something the president's powers.
5 : Physical might : strength The wind grew in power .

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From my original solo in which I created in the previous weeks, our choreographer wanted me to teach my solo to the rest of the class which I thought was an amazing opportunity to be given and I could resist saying no and for it to be placed in the piece as a strong motif.

This was a major highlight of my development process through out the piece, as it showed that he (my teacher and choreographer) believed my work was strong enough to be an element in the piece.

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This lesson was a time for us to feel our body’s emotions and what it was asking us to do in regards to feeling the floor, gaining control through the use of breath.

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From this moment I knew my limits and how far I can push myself. I worked on learning new methods and ways how I can develop movements for me to be able to perform them to the best of my ability.

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Understanding the heaviness and depth of what the body can go.