Romeo and Juliet performance

We started off this piece by josh giving us the music track and running round in the spot letting our bodies control out thoughts and portraying it through movement we each then thought about what the piece meant and how we could put it in a story a lot of people were saying 'the lion king' me and Toriek then started brainstorming a few ideas and decided to persuade and tell the class that we should do Romeo and Juliet as it is a dramatic piece and everyone knows it we then got told we had to add certain movement techniques like the fetal position,flocking etc. 

After that we thought of ways to construct and choregraph the Romeo and Julliet performance and decided to change it into a tribal Romeo and Juliet to match the music. 

The story of Romeo and Julliet is a romantic tragedy due to law and order as well as social reasons Romeo and Julliet cannot be together. So we decided to use tribes to portray the obstacles they face as well as showing the stages in which the tragedy happened.

There are ways we can improve but the most important thing is the timing when romeo and Juliet first meet and there's a circle around them, once we get it right we'll be fine.

Combining the story and the technique was inspiring but flowed very easily the fetal positions show the birth of Romeo and Julliet which can also represent the beginning of the performance.The middle of the performance is shown when the both the tribes see Romeo and Julliet making love, and try to break it up by stomping and clapping Before that part the tribe leaders had already had a confrontation. Once the tribe leader of Julliet's people finds out, he kills Romeo and that represents the end of the play.

Everyone drops to the floor then looks up at Juliet the only one left standing, thinking about all the damage the tribes have caused and what devastation is left behind. 

I think the performance went extremely well. L3 and the older group L3 met in the theatre to show our physical pieces we quickly warmed up and had a quick run over of the performance keeping our energies up, we performed after the older group.