In today's lesson we worked on combining all different areas of the arts into our theatre piece including singing and dance, for example we showed women at a tea dance and all the men slowly leaving them dancing by themselves . This was effective In our piece as it helped in conveying a story without the use of dialogue also It showed the activities people were doing in contrast to the war and how big of an effect it was when all the men left. As an ensemble I think the piece was performed well however as it was the first time we had worked on it we still need to rehears more unable to learn the movements better as well as then being able to characterize our faces more and make the men leaving much smoother and well timed. in future I personally want to work on my relationship with the person I am dancing with and  how I may be feeling about dancing with them as I feel these would be important emotions and feelings to convey to the audience in order to make them understand what him leaving does to me and how I am effected by it.

 We also created duet Pieces in which we showed brothers, fathers and husbands leaving their loved ones behind for war. I worked with George and we created a piece between a brother and sister we chose to do this relationship as it wasn't something we had really explored in class and we anted to set ourselves a challenge of conveying it. We used physical theatre to create a mirror image piece of each of the characters feelings and reactions.  I think our piece was effective because we combined harsh dramatic moments with gentler ones such as at the end of the piece where the two characters come together to play a game reminiscent of when they were young, as well as this we used body percussion, such as slamming our hands and feet on the ground to impact and grab the audiences attention. However, in future I think we need to develop our characters more by working on what posture they would hold and how they would walk and how they would be reacting to loosing one another. furthermore we could develop the way in which each movement is performed, if one of them is lightly harsher at slamming the floor or if one of them lingers slightly longer on the other at the end as I think this would make the piece feel more genuine and realistic to the audience.