For our summative, Tori, Michelle and I created a dance showing the connections between Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. The two books share four main themes; love, courage, difference and abuse. Personally, I think dance is the best way to tell a story. By telling a story through movement there are so many more ways to express emotion and tell the story from a different perspective. My group members and I started the choreography finding multiple connections between the two books, such as: fights between main characters, secret relationships and fate, and started to think of movement phrases to go with these connections. We found similar themes such as: love, abuse, difference and courage. …show more content…
My solo represents difference, Tori’s solo represents courage and Michelle’s solo represents abuse. The movement in our solos are based off multiple words that we brainstormed together that described one of the themes. We later represented love in our routine by dancing in unison and using more slow, soft and elegant movements. After, we represented one of the main points in the plot which is; two people from different cultures fall in love and are unable to see each other because of their differences. In our dance, the lift and the forty counts of movement after that we do represents how even though the parents of Juliet and Eleanor try to push away Romeo and Park. But their love is too strong to allow this to happen. After this, we have another set of solos. This time these solos are based off multiple quotes from both of the books. We took words from the eight quotes that collected from each book that shows similarly between the books and created sixteen movements’ solo phrases and eight movement group phrase. A two of the quotes that we based our movement off of was "I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..."—her voice nearly disappeared—"think I live for you." (308, Rowell) and “Did my heart love