Trio Choreography Lesson 6 (Emily)

Today we had one of our final choreography lessons before assessment day. In this lesson we planned to complete our choreography so we had enough time to clean our choreography and make sure that every dancer knows what they're doing before assessment day. Our teacher had cut our music to make sure the length of the song met the assignment brief so we decided to listen to the cut song before choreographing the ending of our choreography to make sure our movements were in time with the music. We also created a diagram, as a group, before our lesson with a final idea for a section of our choreography. This meant we needed to create less choreography on the day as we already had some choreography planned.

We started to choreograph from the ending of our unison. Caitlin travels towards the bottom right corner with the balloon to show that she still has her childhood innocence. When Caitlin has finished travelling, me and Abigail step backwards as we have lost our innocence however we do an arm movement which shows that we want Caitlin to leave the balloon. We then reach towards Caitlin as if we are trying to persuade her to come with us. Caitlin then looks at us before letting go of the balloon. She then travels downstage to join me and Abigail as shown in our diagram. We then all dance, in unison, away from the balloon to show that all three of us no longer have our childhood innocence and no longer need the balloon.

After this, we decided to use the motif from earlier on in our choreography. In this motif we all did the same movements circling the balloon. We developed this motif by dancing it in retrograde to show a change in the story. After this,all of us walk towards the bottom left corner before we all stop, In canon, me and Abigail look towards the balloon and then exit the stage, then followed by Caitlin doing the same movements. Caitlin looks at the balloon last as she is the last person to no longer have her childhood innocence. Now that our dance is finished, we will clean it in our final lesson to make sure that all dancers know what they are meant to be doing in each section of the dance and to make sure the choreography is neat and tidy.