Performing arts week 4

This week in costume design we concentrated on our historical costumes that we shall be using in July. So far we have been experimenting with different types of historical patterns and colour schemes, by doing this we made mood boards that clearly showed us the colours we would be using (I am using blues and greens)  this week I made a mood board that was covered with examples of a range of blue shades. I did this by cutting out examples from magazines, cutting material and finding paper that Miss Hearne provided which had blue colours/patterns on it. I finished my first mood board and found that it helped me recognise how many shades and/or patterns of blue that I can include in my costume.

On the dance side of performing arts, this week we continued to look at DV8. The main aim of this week’s learning objective was to learn how to use natural flow. We got into a group of 6 and tried to work out how to get from one side of them room to another by using the natural flow idea. At first this seemed difficult because none of us were used to doing natural flow, therefore without saying let’s do this step and after than go into this shape, instead, we went along with the natural flow and tried to get to the other side of them room whilst constantly moving, just like Lloyd Newson. This seemed new to us because it is a new unique way of dancing which  we were not familiar with, by using Lloyd Newson’s natural flow idea we experienced a whole new way of dancing and developed more appreciation towards DV8.