Recreating our own interpretation based on one of the pieces we analysed. Myself and my partner Daniella decided to use movements we analysed from the piece Yesterday by Yasmin Vardimon, which was based on two dancers fighting an illness of one another.
The process of re-creating our own interpretation seemed to flow quite quickly. We decided to interpret it as that one of us, being Daniella was the illness trying to attack and bring the illness into myself. So I would be the dominate lifter trying to push Daniella away constantly whilst Daniella would be the one running back pulling me into her. We decided to use the same beginning as the Yesterdays performance, were the pillow would hit the illness dancer, using a slow dynamic to show the impact of myself not wanting to catch Daniella's illness which was then brought straight into a lift were I lifted Daniella to hang over my shoulder so I could then throw Daniella to the floor to try escape from her, which was then brought back into Daniella chasing me and dragging my leg back. After that it was just a case of running at each other making contact of different action moves.
The performance started started of quite strong, our facial expressions of wanting to hate each other came across. When it came to a certain part of movement in our interpretation of Yesterday, we repeated it three times. The movement involved myself pushing Daniella's head into her lap. The audience seemed to of lost focus and started laughing, personally I giggled afterwards and I felt that we couldn't contain ourselves near the ending of our movement.
I felt my strengths of the performance was the team focus amongst me and Daniella. We worked very well as a team, cracking on straight away, using our notes from analysing the set movements, and putting our ideas, and imagination together to create our own interpretation of Yesterday. We didn't really plan what we were going to do, instead of talking about our ideas, we just stood up and tried them out, some of them didn't work, but most of them fitted in very well together, creating a flow to the set movement. Our dynamics were fast, strong, and fierceto portray our movements and facial expressions during our performance.
I feel my weakness is that my focus lost it self during the end of our performance. I will now learn that when I perform I continue to put all my emotion, and energy into performing.
It will help us in the future, as we can take movements from our own interpretation and the works piece, using it to our own imagination. It shows us a different style of dance that we may have never seen or tried to re-create before. We also learnt new skills of dance, learning things we thought we could never do.
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