Arts Award - Our Inspiration

The group were asked to do some research about the people that have inspired them creatively. Tonight some members shared who their inspirations are and why.

This young person chose the dance group Diversity and was inspired by their talent and the positive values of the group.

The group put a lot of hard work into their research and will build on the information they have collected week by week.

Arts Award

Today the group did some work towards their Arts Award.

The group members were creating thier own action cards, which were discussed in the last blog post.

They then had to translate their actions into movements 

This work will go towards the arts award which is an accredited qualification for the creative arts. 

Dance is back!

After an intense warm up the group started learning some new choreography. The new piece focuses on floor work and working with different levels.

The group really enjoys the new choreography and one of the members explained that it feels like a good workout for the body because it exercises lots of different muscles. He also likes the floor work because it allows him to explore a different kind of dance work.

The group then started to work with action cards:

These are cards which state an action, it is then up to the dancer to interpret the action cards however they want to.

Each card is numbered and when the number is called each member of the group has to perform their version of the action.

One of the members described watching the piece as 'different painters all painting the same portrait'.

Others found it a great way to experiment with new dance moves in an organic way.