• a grouping of related movement that have kinaesthetic logic and intuition

• Beginning-middle-ending

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-"Space is a void"

• Level: LOW-MIDDLE-HIGH

• Dimensiona: HEIGHT-WIDTH-DEPTH

mimetic: literal interpretation (i.e imitating action)

subtextual: information of emotions, or having underlying/ implied meaning, or "unsaid meaning"

juxtaposition: draw attention to the contrast between two things (i.e. text and dance)

• don't falling in the trap just dancing to the lyrics without thinking about all the gap, differenent spaces, different aspect of music

"Merce Cunningham":

big shape

small shape

high level

low level

smooth movement

circle/spiral/riple movement

ankle shape/sharps/edges

curves pathways

conceptual instruction

moving through water

collapes

hot sand

music concept

=> basic movement/repeat/

"A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble out of the jukebox, there is football on the TV, and the eight men lark around, pint glasses in hand. But their blokish fun is balanced on a knife-edge of tension, for beneath the mateyness lurks a disturbing undercurrent of paranoia and insecurity, where weakness is brutally exploited and violence covers up vulnerability."

"lose control: background music"

Why? How?

=> story need to be coherension

what the main structure/ form?

begin/middle/end??

what type of story? sad/romantic/horror?

what the meanings?

about who? a person (gender?)/a group/a relationship?

what happen to them? struggling/ negative, positive feeling? => hard to express, holding back, not tell anyone.

=> not working well, we got confused, and keep choreography based on the lyrics "all of me" without understanding of WHY we doing it.

key word: argument, toxic, ruin, negative, fighting, survival, happy, dark, positive.

• no-one understanding "couple love"

• friendship love/ bestfriend => all understand, easier to express through movement.

• good friends + fighting/arguing because of something + friendship broke.

Why friends fight? what the reasons?

our tutors recommended us to do an activities:

• one person do the movement to the other person, and the person repeating movement to the next person, and keep doing it until the final person. And the final person will do the movement, and see what the different?

  => always different move at the end

WHY friends fight? telling the secret to the other friends, and it being extorted.

• From the corner, All move to the middle, and standing in line (except Henry):

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  • Each person doing one gymnastic move while moving to the middle

    • Alix come first, and waving hand

      => showing she has something to share for the other friends

    • Other joining the line

  • Henry jump over Grabile, and off stage .

    => Showing that Henry do not know Alix telling others about the secret.

  => How? All the movement was from our favourite gymnastic/physical movement. We listened to music, and just playing around, showing off our special moves. We all laughed, and being happy, and cheered each others => decided to choose on of those movement to bring it to the beginning part of choregraphy.

  
  

HOW? : question to get the ideas.

• "what should we do next to make sure the next movement connecting to the previous movement ?"

• "do you have any idea/movement? Show me?"

  => keep asking question, each person showing the movement posed up in their mind, and we chose one of these.

  
  

we want a signal to the fighting part , and showing that Henry is angry, but need to be emphasised, intense, silence

• stillness

  • After doing pinky promise in circle, other stay still, music stop

  • Henry comes to the middle, doing intense step => angry

  • Friends looked at him, and we all stay still for 5 counts. => silence

  • Henry kicks Alix => showing angry

  • 4 people in the circle turn to the right, and standing up

  • Starting the fight

    
    

• Only A, and B fighting, others supporting => make sense

• But all wants to join the fight

=> Hard to create the movement if we are all not sure "why we do it?"

"Why friends fight?"

keyword: secret, promise, emotion, feeling, long time, leverage

=> Breaking the promise is just one of the reasons friends fighting each others, a group of friends feeling annoying of each others for so long but choosing not to tell and these annoying keep building up inside them and just waiting a moment to "exploding" => time to explode .

Using "Chance": playing around, do some activities together, and some random movements just popped up, and deciding to use them in the choregraphy.

Ending: all looking at each other and walk away.

=> 3 people move to each other position, and do half phrase, run and tap each others and go to the corner => extending the time, more dynamic.

The line part: Standing and waiting for others to go in line => "blank time", boring, need to add some more here to do the smooth transition.

Shannon, and Grabiel changed position in line.

Ending part: all walking away, one stays in the middle with the "pinky promise", no one coming back => friendship broke => sad ending.

broken heart

betrayal

loyalty

promise?

=> "PROMISE?"