Creating the Dining Room Routine (Devising) - 05/11/15

Creating the Seated Dining Room piece:

In todays lesson, we had a cover teacher. Although we did not have our usual teacher, in the previous lesson Julia told us the two tasks we had to complete which are the following:

1. "In groups of 4, create a unison routine using the notes you got from last lesson. It has to include gestures, be sitting throughout and be at least two counts of eight."
2. "After creating your two counts of eight, create another routine. This one should include more dance movement such as: moving objects and swapping chairs with people. This should NOT be in unison and there should be no point where you're doing the same thing as someone else. Remember to use the table and chairs and make the routine at least four counts of eight."

As I was already sitting on a table of four, I did not need to get into a group. In my group was Indea, Camay and Dylan. I think overall we worked together effectively and to the best of our ability.

In the first task, we originally couldn't come up with many ideas. However, after a couple of ideas that weren't very successful, Camay and I finally came up with two counts of eight. The first count was created by Camay. It included us reading our menu and deciding what we wanted. The second count was created by myself. I came up with the idea of using our cutlery to create a beat on the table, but because we did not have a table or cutlery, we could only move our hands. However, I personally think that it will sound good when it comes to the actual show. Overall, I personally liked our first two counts of eight because it looked good and fitted the task we were set.

For our second task, we created four counts of eight. This task was much easier then the first as we all had to do different things and not work together. However, we did decide on what counts we were going to work together (e.g. moving seats, pair work etc). We did movements that not only used the floors, but also the objects/props around us such as the chairs and objects on the table. Overall I found we worked well on this task and I personally preferred this task to the first one.