Down & Out/Research
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, Set in Chicago, the film is loosely based on Chicago events from the early 1920s to 1931 in the Prohibition era,
Down & Out Video Clip
We watched the Clip, There was lots of marching sequences, which look very military and the majority of the song was performed in unison. There was lots of repetition used along with movement of lots of stamping, short and static movement. This give it a rhythmic feel to the piece. used From this we deiced we would use unison in our choreography.
Our Group MindMap for our first thoughts and ideas on Down and Out;
Creating our choreography for Down & Out - Video
My Down & Out Video Clip
I feel our choreography and performance of Down and Out changed every show.
After the disaster of the first show performance we went all together into the dance studio with Emily and went through the motifs and movement making sure our timing and movement was correct and looking all the same.
This was due to; missing dancers, which lead to last minute backstage changes and regrouping and different spacing. And the lack of space which meant we have to be closer to together and be aware of chairs, the audience, set and props. This became a problem as every night the tables has slightly moved and audience members were sat in different places, so we didn't really have much place to do our movements big and boldly like we had planned.
The timing was quite often not right but the front 4 dancers tried to stay in the same timing and the back 4 did the same too. When we all danced together I thought the dance worked well and looked good.
The dance was quite different to all the other dances in the rest of the show as this had a contrast, it was down moral dance and is the lowest point of show.
We watched the Clip, There was lots of marching sequences, which look very military and the majority of the song was performed in unison. There was lots of repetition used along with movement of lots of stamping, short and static movement. This give it a rhythmic feel to the piece. used From this we deiced we would use unison in our choreography.
Our Group MindMap for our first thoughts and ideas on Down and Out;
Creating our choreography for Down & Out - Video
My Down & Out Video Clip
I feel our choreography and performance of Down and Out changed every show.
After the disaster of the first show performance we went all together into the dance studio with Emily and went through the motifs and movement making sure our timing and movement was correct and looking all the same.
This was due to; missing dancers, which lead to last minute backstage changes and regrouping and different spacing. And the lack of space which meant we have to be closer to together and be aware of chairs, the audience, set and props. This became a problem as every night the tables has slightly moved and audience members were sat in different places, so we didn't really have much place to do our movements big and boldly like we had planned.
The timing was quite often not right but the front 4 dancers tried to stay in the same timing and the back 4 did the same too. When we all danced together I thought the dance worked well and looked good.
The dance was quite different to all the other dances in the rest of the show as this had a contrast, it was down moral dance and is the lowest point of show.
Source: Website
Date of Post published: Edited 3rd January 2015
Name of page: Wikipedia
Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Malone
Date Assessed on: 17th Novemeber 2014
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