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The 7 levels of tension

1) The jellyfish is a state of tension where you are totally relaxed and calm. It's called the jellyfish because it makes you feel like a jellyfish floating in the sea. This mean that you can feel every muscle in your body and adapt it to your character. 2) The California is a state above jelly fish so you are more awake. We were told think think of it like strolling on a beach in California so you embody the calm attitude of a American. You act as thought you don't have a care in the world so you move quite freely. 3)Neutral / economic is the middle state after the California but before the bad states of tension. You pretty much act normal with little tension visible in your body it is the way most of us act every day in our regular lives. 4) Alert is the state of tension when you are on edge and alert all the time your body might be quite tense and wound up, you are ready for something but unsure what or when. 5)Suspense is the state in which you know something is going to happen and so you are just waiting for it. Your body is held together and controlled if you were walking your walking speed would be rushed or haste. You are just anticipating something so you can't relax or be calm and your body shows this. 6) Passionate the wanting of something you feel very strongly for something or someone and that draws you in so it indices you. We did the where we found a closed box in the street and we wanted to know what was in it we had to play the level of tension of passionate it's was difficult to do but pushed the imagination peaces even more. 7) The bomb we opened the box and in side if was a ticking bomb we had to show the state of shock we would be in and how our body would freeze up so you couldn't move a muscles. This state is difficult to image and it is hard to get in the mind set of that situation but the state of tension help you to understand it better.

Contemporary dance log - we when over the 3 different exercise look at them in great detail so we can get every movement right and on the right counts so it still fits with the music. We did the warm up exercise which went really well as now we all know the movement I find it the easiest exercise but you have to do the movement fully you won't get the full effect. Next we do the foot exercise this one has quite quick movement so if is a little more challenging to learn and perform, it is quite hard as there are some floor movement but they are still very fast and some of them are had to do because of the small amount of space available. I really enjoy this exercise as it pushes my stamina , strength and skills a lot more then the warm up exercise. The final exercise is even more of a challenge it has a long piece of the dance on the floor it has press-ups, sit-ups ,the plank and a number of stretches. This exercise is quite difficult and really pushes you as it's very fast and you have to hold certain positions for long counts , and don't do the movement correctly and fully so you feel the full extent of the movements.

Theatre log

We looked at status in today class and how people react to us when we have a certain status both high and low and how the reactions differ. We did a number of exercises to show this and to show how important status is to the audience being able to identify the character you are portraying. We then looked at status in relation to our play and our own character , and we looked at what we thought the status of our character but also what other people thought the status of my character is. By considering my characters status in the scene I will be performing it will help us understand more about the character and their relationship with others. It is also a good way to see how your character might see them selfs and how others see your character and how they would place her status and how they react to her. This session has brought up questions like : What is my characters status ? Why does she think she is so popular when she isn't ? Why is she so forward and flirty with boys ? Why is she fake towards her so called friends does she think she is better then them ?

Dead dreams of monochrome men I'm reviewing the contemporary dance piece called "Dead dreams of monochrome men" choreographed by Lolud Newson. The dance was originally created as a stage piece choreographed in 1987 by Lolud Newson but later in 1990 it was turned in to a film dance piece. The filmed dance piece was directed by David Hinton. The dance is loosely based on the serial killer Dennis Nilson , he was a serial killer and necrophiliac also known as the "Muswell hill murder" and the "Kindly killer" ,who committed the murder of 15 young men in London between 1978 and 1983. He retained his victims bodies for extended periods of time before dissecting their remains and disposing of them via burning them or flushing them down the toilet. This piece of dance looks at and includes the themes such as loneliness , trust and desire. There are 4 male dancers in this piece ,three of the men appear in their twenties where as the fourth seems slightly older then the others. The dancers often work together as a partnership often swapping the pairs round so their aren't set 'couples'. The four men also work as individuals performing their own separate pieces of dance through out the performance. Towards the end of the dance the men spilt off in to two pairs they both have a killer and a murder victim ,the victim is then carried around and moved as a rag doll. In the beginning of this dance piece as well as throughout most of it there is club music playing as if the men are in a bar or club dancing, this feeling of being in a club or bar is continued with the flashing lights on the black and white filming. One of the dancers addresses the camera talking as though they are asking someone out or asking someone on a date, as this happens the club music dies down. After the speech the music picks up becoming a faster beat at the men swing round run, jumping, leaping while their weighted arms spinning round them ,so their dancing speeds up to fit with the change in music. At one point one of the male dancers stares into the mirror and all that can be hard is the ringing of bells. The dance piece is filmed in black and white so the costumes that the dancers are hard to identify but they appear to be wearing dark coloured clothes ,white socks ,chunky boots and white pants. Three of the men end up in only their underwear , socks and shoes while the fourth remains fully clothed. One of the first thing we see is a black wall on witch most of the me stand up against , there are chalk out lines drawn on the wall like you would outline a dead body. The lighting is done effectively so that it some time casts shadows over the dancers face and body this seems to be in a different room to the flashing club lights. There are black blocks used in the dance but they fade in to the walls and floor so gives the set a seem less look , there is all so a window in one section which has a shade over it so when the shades are open you can see one of the dancers behind the window the is very creepy and makes you feel quite strange. The last couple of scenes and performed in two rooms that look like hotel rooms , and one in a large bathroom I think this makes the dance and actions seem much more realistic. The dance begins with the men bopping to the club music often swapping places on the black wall. Then two of the men moved off the wall to the middle and dancing with each other , the two men then undress each other while the other two dancers interact still leaning against the wall. There are a number of jumps , swinging arm movements , chopping and forceful beating arms , leaps around the space along with lifts that they would work in pairs to do. They clime up the wall of the set and in a three use each other to clime up the wall. In a pair they work together doing trust exercises were one climes up the ladder attached to the wall then jumps down and their partner will catch them each time he would claim hire up the ladder. With both sets of partners the men cling to each other showing how tightly they hold onto this relationship causing the other partner to collapse and fall over or retaliate by pushing them off. The two partners also interact in a weird way with both of the partners at controlling their significant other by using them as a rag doll controlling their movements lifting in them or carrying them as they put them into their murder position either drowning them in the bath of hang them up upside down to dangle. Eventually all three of the men wind up dead with only one bald older dance remained fully clothed while the three other men remain only in their pants, shoes and socks there they are evidently in murder positions.

The two plays have very different story lines but share the theme of murder. The two play show a realistic view of people's lives but with sudden twist that change peoples ideas of different characters. Both plays show someone pushed to the edge where they suddenly snap and take it out on the people around them. Both of the two plays have parts of it set in school areas in morning some scenes are set in a college and the college is spoken about through out the whole play whereas the other play is almost all set in a posh school. The two plays are very different even though they are written by the same person and both are realism plays. The two have very different murder scene in morning is rushed and seems spare of the moment like Stephanie didn't plan to kill him but with everything that was going on in her like life with her mother and cat leaving it's almost as thought she was pushed to do something and taking it out on him was easiest ,but with morning we question her sanity because of her lack of remorse after the murder and she shows no real emotions in the play at all. Whereas in the second play it's a school shooting so there where more people hurt and scared but once again he was pushed to the edge by the bullying and thought that getting rid of people was the best way to deal with it . Both plays almost frighten the readers because of how realistic they are and because you believe in the story line and the characters. Both play end in a weird way with big Cliff hangers so it leaves the audience to make up it's own mind about what happened to different people. Having such sudden endings to both of the plays is effective as it makes people really think about what they have just watched and keeps them thinking and asking unanswered question about the play long after they have finished watching it. I found both plays very enjoy able to read but also rather frightening to think about cause there are cases like the ones he has written about in our real lives and we have all heard or even maybe experienced them so the play slightly mess with you head but in a good way.

Contemporary dance log - we went over the four exercises paying close attention to our alinement , posture and gravity's effect on our movements. We the learnt exercise five the swing exercise this one began on the floor and mention we had to show a lot of control over our legs as we swung them round demonstrating our hip rotation. Although the leg movements had to be done quite fast to keep with the music they still had to be controlled and we still had to look at how we positioned our body's and our alinement. We had to keep a flat foot on the floor while bringing our straight leg up to a stretched out arm while lying flat on our backs with our legs bent up. I found this to be the hardest exercise because when lying down you have less control of your body so I think this is going to be the hardest exercise for me as my swing rage is not large.

Contemporary dance log - we continued going overs the first three exercise making we we doing them fully to get the full effect of the exercises. We began learning the fourth exercise called the power phrase , this exercise was progressively harder then the other exercises had been. This exercise uses gravity to improve our range of movement this meant that at some points we had control our movements but at other we had to "give in to gravity" and let it pull our body's back down to the floor. We then also looked at our posture and alone meant in all the different exercises to improve our performance level.

Contemporary dance log - we learnt exercise two the foot exercise and then exercise three the floor exercise . I found exercise two quite hard as it required faster movements then the first. Also with these new exercises we had to think about dynamics and how we could change the exercises slightly by using different dynamics such as slow, fast , flowing ,sudden. These exercises were a lot more challenging then the warm up exercise .

Contemporary dance log - we learnt the warm up , this is to at reach out the top of the body although the movements are simple they must be done correctly to properly stretch out the body. I didn't find this exercise very hard to do but what was difficult was the counts for the movements holding them for log enough so they are effective.

La la la duo number 1

La la la duo number 1 by Edouard Locke is a mesmerising duet which puts together ballet and contemplate dance to create an incredible performance. The piece really has the audience drawn into the story behind the complex dance movements. The performance has a very strong impact on the audience because straight away it goes into jumps , spins and leaps but also allows the audience time to appreciate the movements but using stillness and holding some movements. The piece la la la duo number 1 was choreographed in 1987 by Edouard Locke and shown as part of a series on Chanel 4 called tights ,camera , action. It is a cinema dance piece so you see the movement magnified on a screen. I enjoyed the relationship shown between the two dancers and how the worked together . They often moved together as mirrors but other times doing seep rat movements but using each other for lifts and some spins. Normally the female is lifted by the male dancer but in this piece the lifts are shared although when the female lifts the male they are less graceful for the audience to look at. This performance uses a range of movements that you wouldn't put together , there are a number of spin lifts and "trust exercise" catches along with jumps , spins and striking arms these movements show strength and often have a sudden and fast dynamic. Whereas movements such as pointed toes , ballet beats with the feet , roles on the floor these movements were slow and had a soft , flowing dynamic. Although this is a incredible piece of dance it has it's flaws. At some points the dance appears choppy and is unpleasant to watch , the movements often don't seem to fit together and so the dance movements don't flow together this gives it a strange look to the audience. At some points in the performance the story that was being told through dance was often unclear or confusing this meant that the while the audience watch they aren't getting the full effect or meaning of the movements the dancers are doing. I really enjoyed watching this piece of dance and found the mix of ballet and contemporary dance is a style that is very unique and different but also could be quite effective for an audiences point of view. I would give this piece of dance 3/5 because I did enjoy the performance but found moments of it hard to watch and often the story's aren't shown thought the movements very well.

Character History

Stephanie

Born: 1990 23 of may

Christened: Stephanie Jane Williams

Brother Alex Born: 1992 stephanie was 2 years old at the time

She was born in to a rich family , her father work as a lawyer for a large company her mother doesn't work but stays at home to look after the children , stephanie is jealous of the attention alex gets and is often mean to him.

1993: When stephanie starts school at age 3 she meets cat a quite girl who doesn't have manny friends, stephanie is loud at school and often talks to her self this means she has very few friends as her classmates think her weird.

1995: Stephanie meet anna a young pretty girl at her school the become friend as anna in new , anna fallows stephanie around like a puppy craveing her aproval.

1997: Stephanie parents take her and Alex to Cargese a village in Corisca for a family holiday in the summer , while their stephanie's dad shows favroitism towards Alex buy taking him on fishing trips together leaveing stephanie to sit watching her mother drink by the pool.The holiday becomes a yearly thing.

1998: In may for her birthday stephanie is brought a pet hamster , after only two weeks the hamster is dead from stephanie squeezing it to much.

1999: Stephanie's parents begin fighting in front of her but not Alex she feels the dont care about her.

2002: Stephanie's dad leaves the family for another women he has been having a affair with, it teares their family apart stephanie is told the truth because she is 12 years old alex is told some story about why his dad has to leave and why he could never see him again. Their mothers drinking worsens and stephanie blames her father for it.

2002: The family is broken in two and as their mother becomes more drepressed stephanie has to do all the jobs around the house while looking after her younger brother who is 10 years old at the time. This puts a strain on Stephanie's friendships but she manages to be more dependant on cat.

2004: Stephanie and alex's mother starts dating an bum called Ed who is mean to them all often beating the mother and abuseing stephanie , he is kicked out of the house after a year.

2005: Stephen joins Stephanies school the become friends after a couple of months and after a bit he also becomes friends with anna and cat.

2006: Stephanie's mother is diagnosed with a brain tumor , the family were devistated when the doctor said there was nothing they could do but give her so pain killers to num her pain, stephanie took it apon her sell to look after her mother this was also when she started drinking to heal what she was feeling and make it not rea even for a little while.

2007: Stephen and Stephanie start going out , mean while stephanie mothers condition get worse and she is bed ridden the family spend most of their money on medical bills so stephanie and alex suffered a lot.

2007 :In august stephanie mother is given two months to live this damages alex and stephanie's relationship as he cant stant spending time with her , stephanie and stephen have sex for the first time shortly after stephanie finds out about he mother.

2007: Alex has his birthday and his friends buy him a ipod touch , his mothers condition gets worse as does stephanie drinking problem she now never seems to be sober.

Justitia

Justitia is a piece of physical dance theatre. It takes a look into the depths of the justice system looking at one women's story and the different element of the justice system. The performance is set out in a 'film-like' replay of the events. The audience is shown the crime from different perspectives, it takes the audience through the murder and shows the different versions of the crime and get's the audience constantly thinking of which verdic they think is correct for this crime. The artistic director Jasmin Vardimon is a leading force in british dance theatre. She has recived awards for excellent danc in her choreographic work over recent years.

This piece of physical dance is combined with some text. Vardimon has started introducing text to her dances over the years. "She finds the use of text liberating" the text is used to enhance the performance and to expand the story and to make the story more real and much more detailed to the audience. The set was rather unusual as their was a revolving stage was used it was effective for scene changes. The stage was then split into three sections this meant that scene changes flowed swiftly into each other. Only three different 'rooms' are used as the play repeats the same scenes. They were the court house, the crime scene or living room and the group therapy room. They used a projector to show facts about the crime to the audience so they understand more background information , the illusion is that as the stenographer types the audience see what they are typing from the case. Justitia involes eight characters , including Jasmin Vardimon her self. "Vardimon features in this piece and one interpretation of her characters relevance is that she represents lady Justice. Justice is a big point or theme in the play and is given to the audience to decide a verdic as if they were the jury. "Justitia is latin for lady justice, the Roman goddess of Justice".

The piece i watched took place in the 'group therapy room' and had seven of the eight characters in the performance. As the section begins the room spins into view with five people sat on the chairs with two of the chairs left empty. A women and a man dressed in a police man's uniform , they take a seat in the two empty seats. The dance begins with a call and response set of movement , the police officer calls out " all raise" and all seven dancers jump up on to the chair with straight legs, arms and back with clenched fists. They would then repeat this serveral times each time jumping back down with their leg open jumping into a sitting presition on the chair with straight backs. Most of the movements are weighted as they swing their arms and legs around on the chair. They only really use the chair space in the begining useing small concentrated movements, jumping around on the chair. They use sharp chopping arm movement normally with a straight arm. Their are breif breaks in the movements where the character sands straight on the chair or siting down straight back on the chair and they would fling their heads back and raised their shoulders up so their neck disappeared they then begin to shake their shoulders as if the are either laughing or crying.

There is constant movement in this piece so as the music picks up speed or beat so do the characters movements. Later on in the dance piece the character include lifts and moving of seats but they still remain in the chair area. The girls perform side ways lifts by learning on the males next to them who are sitting down. As the women sit down the three men hold one of their hands and then walk over the women's legs and they sit down the men then transefers to their own chairs.At one point the girls kneel on the floor spinning around open legged in front of the seated males and back to their own chairs. Through out this piece they always return to the sitting position on the chair this position is ' home' as the dancers constantly return to this position. Most of the movements are done in sync with each other so most of the jumps are done at the same time.The police officer often doesn't do the same movement or does it to a different time frame this may show that he is different to the other characters and so disconecting him self from the crime in question. The other two males do a special dance together in sync showing their connection it consits of jumps over the chairs and then back on to them and spins on top of the chair.

The dance never really moves anywhere. They don't use much of the floor space available and mostly stayed close to the chair only moving up or down then returning to the centre of the chair or moving side ways to change chairs. Because the piece is kept so small and close it draws the audience in and makes the performance feel more interment , but at the same time the audience feels disconnected because it is a dance piece.

I really enjoyed watching this performance as i find physical theayre dance very interesting and different to watch. I really enjoyed Jasmin Vardimon's choreography in this dance , she was clever about the use of space and props keeping it basic yet very effective. Vardimon uses simple movements but still exstremly effective and from an audience point of view it draws you in and interests you with every movement. By repeating some movements it creates a cycle as we watch. I found some of the movement were sharp and quick but at other times soft and angelic. I would give this performance a 4/5 rating because i don't feel their was a story present in the piece i also found it messy to watch .

The play 'Morning' by Simon Stephen is about a young girl called Stephanie and how the death of her mother and the fact that her best friend Cat was moving away leaving Stephanie behind may have contributed to Stephanie murdering her boyfriend Stephen. The writer of 'Morning' Simon Stephens got inspiration from the true story of Rebecca Aylward , she was a 15 year old girl who was murdered to death with no apparent motive by her ex-boyfriend Joshua Davies.

Both the play and the story of Rebecca Aylward are very similar story's only the roles are reversed in the play the girl kills the boy whereas in Rebecca's story she was killed by her ex boyfriend. Simon Stephen has also used a similar setting for the murder as the Rebecca story ,she was lured to the woods by her ex with the possibility of them getting back together so he used the fact that she still had feelings for him to get her into the woods willingly , stephanie use a similar way of getting stephen (her boyfriend) to meet her in the wood and when he arrived Cat and Stephanie said they were going to have a threesome this was a way of keeping Stephen there. So both murders were committed in the woods and with the same weapon. Both Rebecca and Stephen were battered to death with a rock that was found in the woods , Joshua easily over powered Rebecca but in the play the two gils tied Stephen up so he wouldnt move and the Stephanie droped the rock on to his head killing him.

The play has also used the fact that Rebecca was killed by someone she loved and trusted and used this in the play when Stephen is killed by his girlfriend Stephanie who he was clearly in love with and trusted. After both murders the killers Joshua and Stephanie reacted in similar way , they both revisited the boys in the woods , they both bosted about killing their partners to their friends , they both showed a lack of remorse after killing their partners and both continued on with their lives almost normally after the killing act.

The writer of 'Morning' simon stephen took inspiration from the 2007 us production of 'Funny Games' which was a film about and american family who get their home invaded but to men and its the psychological torture they put this family through before killing them , by making the parents watch their son die or by constantly being polite while talking about killing them or how they turn the whole thin in to a game messes with your mind and in some ways makes it worse. We can see the similarities in the play and this film and see how Simon has tryed to use this and adapt it.

In 'Funny games' the two men are constantly polite as they speak to the family and are shock and happy when the family are polite back but respond in violent out bursts when the family try to resist or ant polite , they also smile and laugh the whole way too this makes them seem more crazed and in a way more frightening because they are smiling but beating and torturing the family. This is similar to the killing scene in 'Morning' where Cat and Stephanie turn Stephen's murder into a game , joking around and laughing at his pain shows how damaged they are.

In Funny Games the to men are smiling a lot and the smile doesn't fit with the actions their doing , like they don't take it seriously and that hurting other amused them , this is similar in the play because Stephanie is always smiling when she is fighting with Alex, when her mother dies , when she kills Stephen or even after Stephen's death it shows that she has no remorse. The two men in funny games showed no remorse because as soon as they killed on family they moved on to kill another.

Contemporary theatre

We read through the script "Morning" by Gita Sereny , when i first read the script i was confused how the the main character Stephanie could do such horrible things an show no remorse or empathy for what she had done. I also found it strange how the play escerlated so quickly it went from a slow descusion between the two friends Cat and Stephanie, to the death of Stephanie's mother , then to the two friends killing Stephanie's boyfriend. The play show lots of Stephanie's different relationships and how the dynamics of each of those relationships were very different and how different Stephanie acted in each.There were lots of different subjects fetchered in this play such as friendship, love, sexsuality, death, loss, anger, family relationships, lack of human emotions such as empathy or remorse.

Their are four very different relationships in this play. There's the relationship between Cat and Stephanie who are meant to be best friends but cat is leaving for college this has put a strain on their friendship, the relationship doesn't seem normally Stephanie appears a lot more obsessed with cat and is constantly trying to impress her but in a way Stephanie resents Cat for being able to get out of the town they both hate. Stephanie and Stephen are dating , when we se them interact Stephen talks a lot about how he is in love with Stephanie and how he has this bracelet to remember his first kiss with her ect but Stephanie dose not seem very interested and only really gets interested when he offers her alcohol. It comes off to the audience that Stephanie is not as into this relationship as Stephen is. The third relationship is between Stephanie and her mother we don't learn her name or hear any dialog from her but we know she is termial ill and in the end die's. Her illness seems to put quit a strain on the family and Stephanie suffers greatly because of this illness taking her mother, we never meet or hear of Stephanie's father so the two kids are left to look after their mother on their own. The fourth relationship is between Stephanie and her brother Alex they don't talk much in the play but when they do they fight and argue but its mostly to do with their ill mother and how Stephanie and Alex both react to it in very different ways.

The play shows how different people react to death and how they choose to deal with the loss. Their are two deaths in this play the first was the death of Stephanie and Alex's mother , and the second was the murder of Stephen done by Stephanie and Cat. Alex and Stephanie both become very anger after their mothers death, Alex's being angered buy little things and lashing out but not hurting anyone else where as Stephanie bottles up her emotions and starts acting rash and doing dangerous things like the three some in the wood or killing her boyfriend. Neither of their reactions are healthy but we cant be sure if Stephanie is sane or not because most people would feel bad for killing someone and at least show sum remorse regardless of weather there mother just died. We then have Cat and Stephanie's reaction to the murder of Stephen which they committed , both girl show a surprising lack of remorse towards this non intensional killing. The girls were intending a three some in the woods but they get a sense of excitement from tying up Stephen , the girls enjoy hurting him and when Stephanie gets a rock she is proud of her self and wants Cat to be happy with her but showing off. I dont think the intension was to kill him but after her mothers death Stephanie wasn't in the best place but Cat didn't do much to stop her so i don't think either of them are completely sane because most people see a problem with murder.

The play has this subject about love and i think the biggest example of this is how Cat and Stephanie cover for one another over Stephen's murder. This shows us that they have a much closer relationship then Stephen and Stephanie ever did but also how much more Stephanie cares for Cat because she was willing to kill Stephen in an attempt to impress Cat and maybe on some level Stephanie murdered him as a way to try and keep Cat from leaving the town and there for leaving Stephanie. I think it was a sick and twisted attempt to keep Cat with her because now they shared this big secret they had to stay together, or even if Cat did leave Stephanie had this leverage over her of getting Cat in trouble.

Bye Bye Blackbird review

Bye Bye Blackbird

I gave this performance 5 out of 5 because i really enjoyed watching it and loved the different style of dance that i hadn't seen much of before so to see a whole performance of Fosse style was new to me but i appreciated the sutle movements more after watching it more then once.

The peice of dance titled Bye bye Blackbird was taken from Liza Minnelli's television concert called Liza with a Z. It was choreographed and directed by Bob fosse and he later won an Emmy for directing it. Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse was an american actor, musical theater choreographer, film director, director, screenwriter, dancer and film editor. He won a total of eight Tony awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. In the performance i watched it was taken from the show dedicated to Bob fosse's life's work , it showed of his different and unique style of dance in a range of shows and films.

When the light first come up on stage the dancers have been split into three different formations , one in the center and then one on either side of the stage slightly further back from the front group. Most of the dancers are female and then their are two male dancers and a male singer who dances as well. All the dancers are wearing black but different top so no one stands out of the group , all the dancers have a black bowler hat placed on their heads when the music begins. In this dance they don't move very much they change formations and use most of the stage but most of the movements are small, the dancers are all ways keeping their hands close to their body's either on their hips , uppers legs , chests or slightly extented out to the sides. Fosse has used little movements that stand out such as the constant hip roles or even the way the dancers hold their bowler hats with spread out fingers and having the dancers hold their hands like this through out the hole dance it draws the audiences attention in mor with the slow movements.

At first all the dancers sing and they are directing their attention to the audience , they perform all their action towards the audience this involes the audience and so they then pick up on the small rist twists and small hand movements that the dancers do. The Bob fosse style is quite sexy and sassy with the way the hands are placed , only using small movement and constant rolling of the hips. The style is very suggestive so having the dancers smiling to the audience only hightens the suductivness of this dance. The main singer is always placed in the middle of the formations on stage this is so he stands out to the audience so they put a lot of forcuse on him. When he begins to sing Bye Bye Blackbird the dances turn their attention towards him so their movement are directerd at him and he is in the front and in the middle for all their new formation.

At one point all the dancers make at tight group at the back of the stage and they are all facing the apart from the main singer who is in the front of the formation between two of the female dancers and facing the front still singing out to audience , while all the other dancers have their arms extended out with bent elbows and fingers spread out in a "jazz hands" position. I really enjoyed watching this performance because Fosse's style of dance really interests me , he uses such small movement but they can look so affective on stage , his movement very sexy and intense for an audience but it works well even with this up beat song. I thinks this shows us just how clever he was in creating his own style.

Performing arts theater

1 The given circumstance means the situation ,mood, facts about your character or conditions they are in and an actor must keep these in mind when performing.

2 'The magic if ' is how an actor portrays the give circumstances , what their character would do in this place , with this problem or person.

3 Imagenation is when the actor is given the freedom to explore different ways to portray their character interperate their characters text or actions.

4 Concentration , there are two different types concentration external and internal but general concentration is blocking out interfearing sound either from the outside or other actor when performing.

5 The out side world , when playing a character it is important to remember what effect that character has on others. An actor must understand and observe who they are playing and their conection to everyone / everything else.

6 Relaxation , as an actor your body and voice are your tools to transforming your self in to someone or something else. Before performing you should release all tension to relax your muscles ready to become someone or something else.

7 Unites and objectives is how an actor or company breaks down the script in order to understand it better.

8 Truth and beliefs when performing a play you must be respectful and when it calls for an truthful and correct portrayal of a character or topic.

9 Communion , when performing a play the actors must remember to work as a team helping with each others weaknesses and using each others strengths to full advantage to create the best performance possible.

10 Adaptation ,the methods should always be adapted into truthful and original parts of the performance. the script should be left open for the actor to interperate what to do movement wise.

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