Taane choreographed a dance that is called Manawa. Taane choreography was inspired by his mum. His mother was really sick and Taane looked after her in her last days. While tanne was looking after him, she told him all the family story so they could pass them on to future generations. No one else knew of these stories os it was a real connection they had with each other. When Tanne lived with his mother they were living next to an orchard that had a lot of birds that they could hear singing all the time. The sound of birds now remind him of his mother whenever he hears them.
The intention of the dance was to show a lot of feeling and emotion that would be portrayed throughout the choreography. The music to this dance has the background sound of birds, also we do movements that symbolises a bird e.g the movement with our arms our to the side and the group movement that represents wings. There are a lot of breath movements throughout the dance because this dance is meant to represent the breath of life. We show this by doing slow breath movements with our bodies, group breathing movements, etc.
The ideas and understandings I brought to the dance from the intention was the movement of breath representing the breath of life. Also the bird arm movement which was to represent Taane’s mother.
There were also other ideas that I brought in to the dance from things we were told to do. The first task we were given was to go into our messages, text or emails on our phones and pick out words and put them into a sentence. We then got some ideas and inspiration to make some new interesting dance movements and had to think creatively and put theses word into a short dance sequence.
Section one:
Section one of the dance was the ‘box’ which was to create a shape and bring awareness to the space and environment. This part of the dance is at the very beginning when we are sitting on our knees which an up right back position and looking straight ahead to look determined and focused. In this section it begins of at a slow tempo and gradually increases in speed. Also in this section as it goes on the movement become more complex and difficult (i.e the dance starts of with steady walks from one side of the box to the other and becomes more complexed by turning directions and weaving while still walking and gets more complexed by adding roles etc).
Section Two:
In this section our dance class was split up into small groups of three to four. We then made up a short section creating a conversation with our movements and our relationship with the other dancers in our group. Some of the movements that we were to use were from previous groups we were put into at the workshop. In the previous groups we were to firstly come up with a short section ourselves and then teach it to the other 5 or 6 people in our groups and uses some of their choreography and put it into your own by mashing things together and adaption some things. We the use some of these things and adapt them some more for the conversation piece so there shows a relationship between the dancers and shows connection. In this section the first group does their conversation piece while there rest of the group remain still and focused in the box shape.
Section Three:
For section three we were taught some of Taane’s choreography. One of our tasks was to adapt some of his choreography to make it have more levels, different speeds, changes in formation, changes in shape, cannon, etc, so when it is performed in a group it looks more effective and interesting.
Section Four:
For this section we were put into another new group to create a lotus pattern. For this task we were to be in a group and somebody slowly moves and everybody follows and somebodies else might make a different move and then we follow that person and so on. We then used those random movements of whatever came to our heads. We then made a slow section that was very in time with our groups so it looked effective. To get to these positions in the dance we walk to our positions with determination straight out of Taane's choreography.
Section Five:
In our class groups we were given four words; spine, snake, flocking and wings. We then had to create group movements and positions that showed or had relation to these words.
Spine - For the word spine we were all linked by putting our hand/arms on the person's back in front of us. We were in a curved C position that went from low to high. The first person started sitting on the ground with the arms stretched out in front on the floor with the next person's arms on that person's back and got gradually higher until the last person is fulling standing but still curved over and head down. While we were in this position we did a cannon breathing movement starting from the person at the start on the C on the ground to the person at the other end. We did this breathing motion twice.
Snake - In this movement we are positioned in a straight diagonal line with person at the front at a low kneeling level with people behind getting taller. To get into this position ran but smoothly moved to where we needed to be. We are connected by holding the person's elbow that is in front of us. We then did three waves from the first person starting the wave and then the rest follow like a ripple effect. The first wave starts off slow then get to medium speed by the second one and the fast on the third wave.
Flocking - For the flocking we got into a tight bunch and did slow controlled movements synchronized.
Wings - For the wings movement we were in a straight vertical line from the heights starting from low to high, with the first person sitting and the end person standing talk. We do a connon
arm movement with the front person's arms starting in a low bird position and the person behind arms are higher and so on the the person at the back is like a curved high V. the first time we do this movement were start from the front and connon up and the second time we are dropping our arms back down to the sides of our bodies from the back cannoning down to the front. In the middle of doing these we are in a still bird position and then from lean side to side but still keeping the same position and keeping the arms in the right place which is slightly higher than the person in front of us.
When I was performing my eye focus was up and straight ahead which helps show that we are focused . In the performance we also use dynamic movements e.g fast shape movements, slow gentle movement and smooth movements. These things help enhance the ideas and communicate the ideas to the audience.
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