11th September Movement in performance

Today we discussed what Stimulus means and its importance in dance . Stimulus is a starting point or an idea that you develop.
You can have all shorts of stimulus for example ;

• Visual ; Film , colour, photographs, shape 
• Auditory; music, sound, rhythm, dynamics
• Theme ; convey idea or story , message 
• Text ; scripts, poetry , news, literature 

     Q; what text based stimuli have you used before in drama/musical theatre?  

In musical theatre I used stage directions (text based stimulus) to understand how my character the 'witch' in 'Into The Woods ' moved . This helped me get an understanding how her personality and mannerisms just by the way she held herself.

Also in dance today our stimulus was a visual stimuli. We watched the scene from Rent where they sing the song La ve Bohem . We then started to compose the beginnings of the dance . We start sitting on a run way of chairs facing each other and end up with a partner dancing around the chairs which is meant to represent the table at the restaurant  they sing la ve bohem .