In todays Jazz lesson, we created a brand new routine. This routine is going be the tenth number in the show. In this routine, you will see Luke and the children getting ingredients and creating the potion to kill the witches. In the previous lesson (01/10/15) my group and I created our piece for the routine. Julia also created a motif which was going to go in the routine. In that lesson, we had no music, so we just created a routine which we thought would fit the theme of the music.
In todays lesson, we still did not have any music, however Julia and Josie had thought about some ideas they wanted us to do. They told us to get into a diagonal line in any order front downstage left to upstage right. We were then placed in pairs and told to create two separate counts of eight with our partner. In these counts of eight we were told to include movements as if we were passing an ingredient down the line to Luke so he could throw it into the cauldron. My first partner was Nina. We created two separate counts of eight. We worked successful as we included both of our ideas. Our routine did not include any lifts or tricks as we wanted it to be simple, yet effective.
After we showed our routine to Julia and Josie, we were told to work with the person the other side of us. My second partner was Camay. We were told to do the exact same as we did with our original partner; except instead of doing two counts of eight, we were to do one count of eight and one count of four. I also work effectively with Camay, however sometimes she did not input all of her ideas and occasionally we had differing opinions on what we should do. In the count of eight we included one lift, yet in the count of four we included no lifts, and just purely dance moves. We then showed it to our teachers. They liked all of ours because they were different, yet similar (because of the characters we were portraying). Julia and Josie then told us to combine the two pair routines together so they flowed from one pair to the other. We did this and it also looked effective.
After this, we were told we had two counts of eight to move from one spot in the line to another. I moved from upstage right all the way to downstage left within the two counts, however some others only moved a couple of places down. We were then told to work with the person next to us. My new partner was Rhiana. We were told to create another two counts of eight which had the same meaning behind it, however the movement had to be different. Originally, we couldn't think of anything unique or different, but then we decided to combine parts of our other pairs. We included a lift, which looked really effective. We also included movements from both of our pairs which flowed really well. We showed it to our teachers and they were happy with it. Our final task was to work with the person the other side of us. This time, my partner was Dylan. We also had to do one count of eight and one count of four. Just like Rhiana and I's pair, we originally could not come up with anything. However, Dylan came up with a couple of ideas and they looked really good. We then showed our pair to Julia and Josie and they were happy with it. As a class, we then ran through the whole routine from our first pair, all the way to our last and it looked really good.
Overall, this was a really good experience. I enjoyed creating my own choreography and having my own input into the show. I also enjoyed working with people that I may not usually work with or have never worked with before.
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