DongMen Site Reflections

For Dance class, we worked on a few choreographs, and filmed them at the DongMen market site. Here are some of my reflections to the filming.

• How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?

We were told in the classroom that there were going to be clothing lines on the roof. He created cool ideas of draping clothes over the clothing line, and our dancers dancing in between the line with repeating "dead-looking" movements and gestures. We also planned to suggest the art class to film us with the camera going in between the clothes, making it look like a maze. However, there weren't any clothing lines on the roof, and we had to cut out that part of our choreography. 

• Now that you know this site better; If you were to go back to Dongmen what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?

I feel that the students don't really fit into the "old and dirty" mall, because we are all dressed in clean clothing. Of course, that would be okay if the role of the student was, a student. However, it would be great if students costumes fit into the setting better. 

I also thought that our movements were a bit too small for the wide and big rooftop. I would make movements bigger, if we were to film it over.