Combined Coursework

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Combined coursework


For the combined coursework we decided to use the statue as our stimulus. We looked at the three figures and got the idea of “hear no evil see no evil speak no evil” and so based our coursework on this. We decided to link each of the figures with each element of performance for example for drama we chose “speak no evil” for dance we chose “see no evil” and music “hear no evil” this means that we would do three scenes which would represent one of these.

The statue is joined and so the idea we has was to make all the three scenes join together with the three elements of performance. Looking at the statue it looks unnatural and so we decided that we would go with quite a creepy theme. We now decided on a story line which would basically be about a two friends and one of them gets murders by strangers, the audience don’t know whether the murderers are ghosts or alive this idea came from the shape of the statue because the figures look like people but we don’t know whether they actually are.

The opening element we decided would be dance. It starts off with two friends saying goodbye. One of the friends would then be murdered; to do this we used slow movements so that the audience could see what was happening. The movements used by the murderers were dominating and very big. The movements then speed up to represent the struggle of the character trying to get away from the murderers. The murderers movements are done in unison because it shows that they are joined together just like the statue. The stabbing movements at the end represent death. At the end of the dance the figures join together in a similar was as the statue and say “speak no evil” in a deep and scary tone to the other character this is to remind the audience of the theme and to also represent the statue.

Almost immediately after the dance the two characters move apart quickly from the statue position and become diff...