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Rehearsal no 2: 20th October

 In todays rehearsals we explored the words "hope and joy" by using movement to spell out the words. 

I gave my dancers their emotion; Amy was "hope" and Chloe was "joy" 

I then showed them a picture of a person with the alphabet around their body and they had to spell out their word using different body parts. 

They then added in choreographic devices such as repetition, retrograde, accumulation, levels and dynamics to create a short motif. 

I filmed these and will add them into the choreography in the part of "choosing hope and finding joy" section of the dance. 


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