Unit 26 - Choreographing dance

Wednesday 15^th November

In this session today we weren’t doing anything practical. It was more of a session to discuss any further ideas we have for the show and to reflect on how the teaching is going in the primary school. We have done all of the practical work we can do at the moment. We are waiting to hear back from a boy who we think would suit a role really well in this performance but we can’t do anything until we know if he can be part of the performance or not.

We first started talking about how the teaching is going in the primary school. The first time we went into the school I was really nervous about teaching because I didn’t know what to expect and what the ability would be of the children. However, I am now a lot more confident when going into the school and working with the children. Both Eve and Toby are really capable and they are both committed to learn the choreography. I’m really looking forward to working with Eve and Toby in the new year and performing with them in the show in May 2018.

Secondly, we started talking about the show and how we think the story is going to pan out. We reviewed over the many different technical elements which we are thinking of incorporating. We then thought it would be a good idea to have a meeting with Paul, the head of The Chapel Arts Centre, to share our ideas with him and see what may or may not be possible. We managed to agree that this afternoon would be a good time for the 3 of us to sit down and have some discussion over these ideas.

After we had sorted out the meeting, we started to look for possible costumes. We want to be organised and ready for the showcase early so that we can make it the best that it can be. We managed to find a few different costumes online which fitted with our theme. Here are some links to the costumes which we have been looking at.

Adult black/white dress:

http://www.dancedepot.co.uk/womenswear/dresses/bg001-camisole-empire-dress-1

Child white dress:

http://www.dancedepot.co.uk/childrenswear/dresses/3968c-empire-dress-1

As you can see, these dresses are both quite similar and this is the effect that we are going for because we want it to look like the character is growing up. We are not quite sure what the boys are going to wear at this moment but we will keep looking for possible ideas.

Another part of costume which needs to be carefully picked are the wings that we will be earing. Each girl will have a set of wings as we will all be playing a different age of the same character, Maleficent. The children will probably be wearing small wings which will be easy to dance in and hopefully won’t restrict their movement at all. However, because I am playing the character when she has grown up, I will need bigger wings. We need to carefully pick these because although they need to look effective, I need to be able to move well in them. Therefore, we will probably have to have these made especially so that they are comfortable for me to move in and fit what we have been imagining. However we do need to keep in mind that we only have a small budget of this performance.