During the half term, we had a break from all the dancing. But Miss Dolan and Miss Hearne both set us some work to keep us active. Earlier on in the year we were set an 8 month task where we had to focus on dance styles research them, interview people, do different style dance classes etc. So Miss Dolan could make sure we had made a start we had to create a plan of the task and what we were going to include.
For the work Miss Hearne set us, as we are focussing on rock chick funky clothing we had to research Vivienne Westwood’s tartan collection and collect images off Google. I found this very interesting as I love Vivienne Westwood and her clothing so looking at tartan was great fun for me!
As I love dancing, and can never sit still, I went up to London to pineapple studios for a day in the half term with Kelly. It was great fun; this wasn’t my first time going to pineapple as I went three times in the summer and once this half term doing a variety of different style dancing. I am going to use this for my 8month project as evidence, its a comercial style dance we did but could also be classes as jazz. We got the train up and walked round Covent Garden for a while, as it’s not often I go into London. We did an R'n'B Jazz class with Andrew Stone it was great fun, but took up a lot of energy as the warm up was very intense as well as the dance. The style of dance was different to what we are used to, so doing this dance class was a way of learning new things to, it was similar to sorts of things you see on music channels. But it was very exiting to be dancing in pineapple studios as it is very well known and something you see on television.
For the work Miss Hearne set us, as we are focussing on rock chick funky clothing we had to research Vivienne Westwood’s tartan collection and collect images off Google. I found this very interesting as I love Vivienne Westwood and her clothing so looking at tartan was great fun for me!
As I love dancing, and can never sit still, I went up to London to pineapple studios for a day in the half term with Kelly. It was great fun; this wasn’t my first time going to pineapple as I went three times in the summer and once this half term doing a variety of different style dancing. I am going to use this for my 8month project as evidence, its a comercial style dance we did but could also be classes as jazz. We got the train up and walked round Covent Garden for a while, as it’s not often I go into London. We did an R'n'B Jazz class with Andrew Stone it was great fun, but took up a lot of energy as the warm up was very intense as well as the dance. The style of dance was different to what we are used to, so doing this dance class was a way of learning new things to, it was similar to sorts of things you see on music channels. But it was very exiting to be dancing in pineapple studios as it is very well known and something you see on television.
Below are images of Kelly and I after our dance class-
Well done Myriam, what a great thing to be able to do! Also, I hope one of the styles you are focusing on in your 8 month task is 'commercial' style dance (the class you did with Andrew Stone) as you have taken a class now and could use this in your project. It is a massive up and coming style, that lots of 'jobbing' dancers will take work in to make money and keep in the industry between more classical jobs.
ReplyDeleteI also adore Vivenne Westwood and it is such a funky style to get your teeth into.