Dance Rehearsal 21/09/15

First in class we did a warm up then we went over our own motifs we made up for the dance then we had to add three interpretive skills into our motifs and show it back to our partners and get feedback.

My feed back was it was good and it flows into each movement and my facial expression was really good with the movements and my movements are strong and come across as some movements represent violence and can be emotional, but I come out of beat of the music so I need to work on that for next time I do a solo.

Dance (Dorothea Lange)

Dorothea Lange ( May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influence American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her depression-era work for the farm security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the great depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

About Dorothea Lange

Born of second generation German immigrants on May 26, 1895, at 1041 Bloomfield street, Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange was named Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at birth. She dropped her middle name and assumed her mothers maiden name after her father abandoned the family when she was 12 years old, one of two traumatic incidents early in her life. The other was her contraction of polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. "it formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it.

Dorothea Lange Career

With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployment and homeless people, starting with " White Angel Breadline " which depicted a lone man turned away from the crowed in front of a soup kitchen run by a widow known as the White Angel, captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA).