Language of Performing Arts

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The Language of Performing Arts

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The intention of my three minute dance piece was to express the poem "At 3am" by Wendy Cope. I managed to do this by doing actions in threes which illustrated the time 3am, the ticking of the clock and expressed the key themes through use of movement. The aim of my three minute drama piece was to create a piece based on a girl being involved in a hostage situation and how the mother dealt with it. The objective of my music piece was to create a three minute song with a theme of my own choice. The intention of my integrated piece was to create a piece that expressed a poem of my group's choice, using elements of dance, drama and music.

There were links between proxemics, space and texture in my performances. This is because the three elements relate to the arrangement and organisation, which allows each element to convey the mood, emotions and theme. For example when the general space is used in dance to convey the lonely and empty mood, we used proxemics in drama when there is large distance between Zainab and the rest