Working on Promenade

In today's lesson we prepared more ensemble pieces for the promenade performance. We spent the first half of the lesson learning how to waltz, we will use the waltz to set the scene of WW1 to the audience at the beginning of the peice. We created a waltz scene in which the people who where most confident to do the waltz where partnered up and put in the middle, I was partnered up with Skye to dance with and we all began to dance in a circular motion in the middle whilst others would surround us drinking tea and entertaining the audience. The boys ( all boys) would then gradually leave to signify the men going of to war, when they had done so Isabella would start to sing "pack up your troubles" in a gloomy way, after the first line, the rest of the girls joined in. By doing this small peice we show the audience the effect on women of the leaving of husbands, sons and friends (men). After this we split off into 2 different groups, one experimenting with showing the conflict of the war through dance, and the other experimenting with a physical theatre repetitive sequence of movement. I paired up with Elle and we came up with 4 main movements; holding hands, pointing into the distance, saying goodbye, sitting alone that in twined and where repeated.