Reflection on Performance Art

In today's lesson Ms.Ruiz asked us to pick a group of people to make a group with 6 people in my group there was me (Muskan), Aamnah, Ameenah, Zenia, Amr and Mehul. Together we had to create some kind of movement that matched the music that Ms.Ruiz was playing. the name of the abstract music was Core Chant by Meredith Monk. So, my group together collaborated and decided to start with a circle formation and since the music was at a slow pace and it was continuously slow all the way through except for the end which was,  a sudden change in music it grew louder and then there was a sudden stop which was the ending of the song. I feel that my group did a good job because we all took part and collaborated well with each other. We respected each others' ideas and portrayed them in the performance whenever possible. we all had quite unique and special ideas that matched the abstract music we were listening to. I feel that my group portrayed a fairly balanced and organised performance that was good all the way through the music. Our movement followed the music and our team work was quite good. I felt that our movements correlated with the music and we used our knowledge of abstract music that we had looked at in the previously lesson helped us in forming good actions that match with the music.

Group information
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - This group did a scene that went with the abstract music. This group did an act of being in the jungle 5 of them were pretending to be animals (looked like lions walking in the jungle) and there was 1 hunter with a tranquilizer gun. The hunter started to shoot the animals one by one. They all are walking around in a steady pace very slowly to match their movement with the music, then one of them goes slowly towards the hunter and takes his tranquilizer gun and then the 3 lions gang up on the hunter and kill him, then the 3 lions go to the other 2 lions that died and remove the tranquil from their body and they come back to life and eat the hunter. In the end when the music suddenly gets louder all the lions die except one because he is the one who kills them with the tranquilizing gun and then he almost kills himself and then the music stops.

Does the movement depict the music?
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - I think yes I do think that this group depict their movement to the music. I could clearly see they represented their work like a piece of art, they created a scene that matched the abstract music all the way through.

Are they working together as a group?
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - I think that this group worked very well as a group as they knew exactly what they were doing and coming towards the end when there was still some music left but they were done they collaborated very well and improvised well as a team.

How does the movement correlate with the music? 
Group 1 (David and Ali Reza's group) - The movement correlated with the music because the music was steady and very slow paced, and so was the performance that was made by this group. Previously in the music it was quite a slow pattern and it was continuously like that and this was portrayed well in their performance, their steps and movements matched the song from begging to end.

Group Information
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - This group started with a hand motion that was like a wave with all of them standing in a circle formation. Then slowly and steadily following the music pattern they started to move in that circle, then they slowly move in the middle of the circle one by one. Then one of them goes out of this circle and brings in 2 props (A phone and a folder). Then that person puts these 2 props in the middle of the circle, then all of the team members slowly sit down still following the pattern of the abstract music playing, then they started to worship the phone., this phone has a picture of Shrek. Then after a while Shrek dies so the picture has blood on Shrek's face, then they all continue to worship Shrek this time while whispering his name. Then after a while Shrek then comes back to life, this time on he phone there is no blood on Shrek's face. Now They keep the phone on a shelf and get back into a formation of a circle again and then they slowly move apart from each other, then they get into a line and start to act like elephants, and they used their hands to make a trunk and made some elephant noises. Now again they bring the phone and make a circle formation and keep the phone in the middle and start to worship it again, and as the music gets louder and faster tempo and pattern changes so does the speed of their worshiping. Then the abstract music stops and so does the group, this is the end.

Does the movement depict the music?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - Yes this group did depict the music and follow the music all the way through. Their scene was matching the music tempo and pattern.

Are they working together as a group?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - Yes I did see a lot of team work, I think that this group collaborated very well with each other and they seemed very well connected to the abstract music. The group also improvised near the end, and they still made it look like they were all continuing.

How does the movement correlate with the music?
Group 2 (Carline and Prachi's group) - The scene that this group did correlated with the music because they were very steady and slow in their performance, and you could see clearly their movements were well matched with the abstract music.