Creating The Poison Routines (Devising) + Notes - 02/11/15

Creating The Entrance To The Dining Hall:

In todays dance lesson, we created the entrance to the Dining Hall. First of all; Julia told us to get into pairs, so Indea and I picked each other. The style of dance was Jazz with a slight touch of Victorian moves (e.g. Ballroom type of dancing). We were then told to create at least two counts of eight of material. In this we were to include things from the list below and also any other ideas we may have.

At first, myself and Indea did not have many ideas, however we did decide that we wanted to be clumsy/unpredictable witches. I then suggested we should read through the list and take some of the ideas and incorporate them into our routine. We then read the list and we managed to create a lot of choreography. I think we were well together, not only because we're friends, but also because we listened and incorporated both of ours ideas.

When watching others, our routine was different to everyone else's. I personally liked it as we made ours look unique and so we portrayed different characters to everyone else. I think if we could change one thing about our material it would be that we should've included more moves to make it look more interesting and eye catching to watch.

Next lesson, I know that we will be put into groups of four to create two different types of routines.


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Notes On The Witches At Dinner:

What do the Witches do when they walk into the dining hall?

• Looking around
• Jumping
• Waving at friends
• Composed to impress the Grand High Witch
• Chasing etiquette
• Talking to friends/other Witches
• Fix Clothes
• Socialising
• Sitting down
• Drinking Tea
• Folding the Napkins
• Looking at the Menu
• Pouring a drink
• Calling over a Waiter 
• Fixing your wig
• Moving the Cutlery
• Adjusting/Moving the chairs
• Changing places with other people
• Passing items over the table/to other tables

How do the Witches react when they're being poisoned?

• Hands Shaking
• Twitching
• Almost like a burning sensation inside of them
• Contractions
• Melting Action
• Jittering
• Steam from the ears
• Shrinking/Dissolving
• Grabbing things for balance
• Panic
• Screaming
• Eyes: Widening, popping, rolling 

How do people/other Witches react when they see them being poisoned?

• Scared
• Agitated
• Waving Hands
• Fast movements
• Bumping into things
• Crowling/Running
• Pushing things over