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Last tuesday, our dance class and advanced art class went to the Dongmen Mall to film a piece for Arts Night. Here are some reflection questions on the process.

How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?

My group was assigned the site of the roof for our piece of choreography. We were told that it was an open space with a clothes line. We came up with the idea that we should hang clothes off of the clothes line, and have the camera zigzag its way through the clothing on the clothes line. When we got there, however, we saw that there was no way we could have used the clothes line because it was actually further out than we had thought and we could not reach it. Because of this, we had to get rid of the section of choreography that included the clothes line, and modify it so that we could perform without it. Instead, we hung the clothing off ourselves. However, that was again further modified because it did not create an eerie enough feel.

Most of the choreography remained the same though because our site was simple: an open space. We did not have to deal with escalators or hallways like the other groups had to. We had choreographed our dance for an open space, and an open space was what we got. However, we did make sure that we spread out more, and used bigger actions because there was much more space available to us than we had actually expected.

Now that you know this site better; If you were to go back to Dongmen what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?

Now that I know the site better, I would probably include more people in our dance routine. We had a lot of space, and it felt a lot emptier than it did when we practiced it inside the dance classroom. Six people can only use up so much room, no matter how big their actions are. I think the choreography would been stronger if we had more people, and therefore, would not have as many empty spaces. I don't think I would take anything away from our choreography except the clothing hanging off the dancers, but we already did that, so I would only add more to it. I think I would probably plan for more effective use of the space. I feel we were somewhat restricted to a small proportion of what we were given. We could have done this by having more people in the routine, as mentioned before, or moving around more. I also think we should have done something involving the wall that was behind us.

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