Thursday 20th March 2016 - Devised Pieces (Lesson 4)

Peter Pan Solo Rehearsal Video 

In this rehearsal I put the whole dance together for the first time, I think for a first time this went well, however there was a timing issue when going into the dark section, I think in the next rehearsal I am going to see if taking out the movement before I get up when the music changes, this is because I think it will look better to have a short pause in this transition to show him changing personalities. I had another timing problem, this was on the climax in the dark section, on the crash I am supposed to jump, however even with adding in more movement before this the timing was still wrong. Because of this in the next rehearsal I am going to work on slowing the movements before this down, I think this will make the climax look more effective and make it stand out more as it will be a big contrast.

I thought that my eye-line was better in this rehearsal, however I think this can still be improved, I think this will improve as I become more confident with the movement material though. As well as this I need to work on the overall performance of the dance, I can include different facial expressions, this is especially useful when showing the difference in character in the different sections. For example I can smile in the first section and look a lot happier, whereas in the second section I can be more serious and then after the climax my character can be more scared as if he is running away from something trying to escape. In the last bit when the music changes again, I can be more happier and calm again. In my opinion I think that characterisation in this dance is important as it the portrayal of a character. I need to tidy up a few movements such as the part when I drop down to the floor after the side leap, I think I am going to cut this out and just drop after the turn, this is because I don't think It flows with the rest of the movement material. I also think that when I do the kick on the floor, that I need to do it with the other leg this is because I have to add in another roll to keep it on the right leg and I think that this breaks up the dance and it isn't as smooth of a transition as I would like it to be.

 I like the amount of space that I am using in this dance, when choreographing I thought about how much space I wanted to use. I thought that because Peter Pan has such an adventurous personality that it would be appropriate to use the whole space rather than just a small section of it. I have used diagonal pathways, one reason why this is, is because Peter Pan is a character that often "cuts corners" therefore I thought that I could use this when choreographing space in my dance. I also think that my dynamics have improved from the last rehearsal, this is especially when leading up to the climax on the knee spin and the attitude, I wanted this part to have sharp movements because it needs to differ from the other parts of the dance.