Trio Choreography Lesson 6 (Abigail)

Today was our sixth choreography lesson and this was one of our final lessons before the day of our choreography assessment. When we entered the studio today, our main priority was to complete our choreography so that we have enough time to thoroughly clean our choreography before assessment day. We needed to have our music cut as well our music was longer than three minutes and this didn't meet the assignment brief. Our teacher cut the music for us so it is within the time limit and we listened to the music before starting to choreograph the ending of our dance to make sure that our movements matches the mood of the music as well as telling the story line. We knew what the final section of our choreography needed to portray so we began to choreography,however we had created a diagram of a section of our story which we wanted to include when we began to choreograph.

We continued on from our unison section by Caitlin moving away from me and Emily with the balloon. When she has stopped travelling to the right downstage corner, me and Emily do a movement to step back with arm movements that signify that we are trying to get Caitlin to understand that she can't have childhood innocence forever,before we reach towards her to get her to come and follow us. Once me and Emily have reached towards Caitlin, Caitlin looks to us before letting go of the balloon and using a travelling step to join the line. We have then used our diagram to help us carry on choreographing movements with us holding hands,moving away from the balloon to signify that  all three of us no longer have childhood innocence.

After we followed,our diagram and choreographed what we had on paper, we decided to use retrograde on a motif we had already used in the piece. Earlier on in the choreography, all three of us do the same choreography circling the balloon. We repeated this choreography backwards in a circle,however this time we are not circling the balloon. We then ended our choreography with simple movements. All three dancers walk to the downstage left corner and, in canon, me and Emily look towards the balloon with an arm movement and walk off stage. When we have exited the stage, Caitlin looks towards the balloon with the same movement and then walks off stage. Caitlin looks at the balloon last as she is the last person to walk away from her childhood innocence. Now that our choreography is completed, we plan to clean the entire choreography and dance with a balloon in our final lesson to ensure that our choreography is neat, to ensure that all dancers are in time with each other and the music and to ensure that the choreography looks the best it can.