The fourth week to Btec Performing Arts...

These four weeks have gone so fast! Feels like only yesterday we were sitting in the drama studio talking about the introduction to the course..
I am so happy I picked the course as I’m loving in and can’t wait until we put our big performance this term together it will be so much fun, and so interesting to watch because there will be so many different things involved.

In Btec this week we continued to look at DV8. We started doing workshops based along the lines of the company, and the idea was to make all are moments flow; we had this idea because the leader of DV8 Lloyd Newson uses that in all of his dancing. We had a task this week of finding away to travel across the room in a group. The first lesson of this task we got into two's but as there was an odd number I was with Kelly and Laura Anne so it made it that little bit harder for us, but as the lesson went on it got easier and easier this was because instead of setting what we were going to do we just saw how our bodies took us. This was a very hard task; therefore I think Lloyd Newson must be very clever in his choreography to produce such beautiful work. His way of dancing is very unique and unusual to what we have done before.

The next lesson we started thinking of doing the same thing in bigger groups. We got put into groups of six and this suddenly got A LOT harder. Having to move in a line 3 moving at a time across the room. But yet again as the lesson got on we improved my using each other and working as team, Newsons work requires a lot of team work too! I can’t wait to carry on learning about DV8 as I’m not so good at it yet but it is a new fun style that I am really enjoying so far! Miss Dolan also set us a task that is due in on Friday i have done a presentation, to present to the class on DV8 and so far learning about them is almost as fun as learning about their movements.

In the costume design this week the first lesson we created strips of colours that we got from magazines based on the colours we are using on are historical costume. We haven’t looked into the costumes its self into as much depth as we have the colours!  We have to do a lot of research into styles, colours and patterns that will fit with the historical theme Miss Hearne is focussing on. I managed to complete two stripes of gold colours and pink colours; this was a difficult task as of course you would want to pick the best section for your colours. I had a lot of fun whilst doing this though, and as I was absent for the other lesson of costume design we did as i was ill, I of course can’t explain what we did, but I will catch up on that next lesson. I also can’t wait to put are colour mood boards together as so far they are all looking great! We will eventually have one for each of our colours! My work has really improved over the course... And think both the dancing and creative side to Btec performing arts is great fun.