Tuesday, July 22, 2008

blog of rhythm and movement

This week, we had been given our minor performance2 that was rhythm and movement. The most interesting part is we need to dance out our identity of group’s name. As our group name is ‘Rose Thorn’, it really makes me felt thorny. How to show out our identity by dancing?

As a group leader, I do have to contribute efforts in chronograph the steps of dance. So, I make myself free for the whole weekend to finish up the dance. Finally, I had finished chronograph my dance. So on Sunday night, I call all my group members to practice at PKP in college Chancellor. Sadly, only three turn up. Then we only learned a few simple steps.

Wednesday is around the corner, this make me felt nervous and sad. I scare I can’t I can’t teach my members, and I am sad because they all didn’t turn up for Monday morning training. On Monday night, the whole PKP is full of people. They are all my course mates, practicing the dance that they need to perform. We also started to practice. Slowly, my mates all started familiar with all the steps. We also do the broacher and synopsis together.

Three days had passed. Today is the day we need to perform. We make ourselves to be in the best condition. Morning, we make ourselves memories all the steps and is our last rehearsal. Then, something happened. Our buddy group, Rachael, has a fall and she spins her knee. She was in pain and tears coming out from her eye. At last, we decide to send her to PK. Although she can’t dance, but she did sacrifice for art.

When we reached Faculty Of Pendidikan, Puan Juridah told us that we are the last group. Group after group, make us so excited. Some of them felt more nervous and nervous. For me, I do think is excited because I love to dance in the crowd. When reached our turn, we strike out our best move and dance. We really enjoyed ourselves because this is our production and we must enjoy it nicely.

Through this performance, we merely have meeting every night and this had help us to build up our relationship among our group member. Besides that, we have the chance to watch our friends perform. I did realize that many of my class mates can dance very well but they are too shy to do so. But when they are on stage, they did make a very good move. They built up their confident and this is very helpful in our major performance. Some of the groups are not prepared, but they did do a great job. I can see that they really putting effort in practicing. This is a great time to develop human’s creativity and rhythmic. I still remember Hoe-Yi say it helped her to get lost of weight because dance requires to move our body figure. We also can make this activity in class so that students can have the chance to do exercise in the meantime release their tension studying.

blog on sound story

This had been my first time doing sound story. When Puan Juridah gives us the outline, I was shock. We need to make story by only doing sound with no vocal. This is tuff. I don’t even can make a nice cat sound. After I observed my classmate, I think we are all new to this activity. We need to tell a story using only vocal sounds. How ridiculous! But at last, we did create a story out.

We are very lucky because our group is the first to perform. After we finish our bla… sound, my course mates interpreted the story with a different version compared to our original idea. But, from what we heard they say, their version make sense too based on the sounds we produced. This will be interesting if as a teacher, we want our students to do it in class. They will find it interesting and concentrate in our lesson.

Then, we are given chance to watch others groups present. Each and every group is trying their voice to make types of sound such as witch, accident, wolf and so on. We need to guess the sequence of the story as well. The sound that most attract me is the sound of the mother crying presented by Priya’s group.
The sound really attracted me. Our classmates really make a very good job.

In my opinion, I think that this is a very good try that all of us are enjoying listening to other course mates’ performance. While listen to the sound, we also make ourselves a happy time there.