Devised piece evaluation

For our devised piece, me Bryleah and Emily used the song 'Circle Of Life' from 'Lion King'. In our piece, our choreographic intent was to portray 3 different animals that lived in East Africa, which is where Lion King is set. I chose an Antelope, Bryleah chose a Monkey and Emily chose a Leopard. We each created separate solos that we incorporated our chosen animal in, influencing the dynamics and specific actions we performed.

For the antelope, I performed various movements such as a flexed hitch kick in my solo. This represented the animal's long legs that kick up when they are running as they are very springy. I also began the whole piece in a fixed raise leg position to further communicate the elegance of the antelope in it's posture and motion. In motifs where we performed the same movement in unison/cannon, we each took ideas from our own animals to insert into these sections so that we all ended up sharing each style. For example, we perform a high jump with both our legs bent to reinforce the antelope's legs as it bounces around, and also flick our leg around. For Bryleah's monkey, we repeated the action of pounding on the ground in a squat position. For Emily's Leopard, we used a lunge position low to the ground, and rolled on our front to show the creeping movement of the wild cat, as if it was preying on an animal.

For our costume, we stuck with plain black top and leggings and I tied my hair half up half down to reference antlers.

In evaluation, we performed it well and could keep up with each other in terms of timing. To improve, I would of worked more on my solo to add more referencing movements to the antelope. We could have also made it a bit longer and added more contact work such as lifts and interaction in our animal characters. This would have given more of a relationship and shown how the animals would interact in real life e.g The leopard would be chasing the antelope around, the monkey would be taunting the other animals etc.