Motifs for dance

I chose Icarus which we had to do 3 motifs to explain the story through dance.

Motif 1:- Sadness, this shows the falling of the bird and death. This motif will show this through levels, being grounded and fuild.

-Starts on flood facing back on knees
-Up and over thought the foot with arms going up and over to face the front, keep head low to the legs.
-Wrapping left over right into a shift going into a bunny hope shift.
-Then hips facing back on tilt right leg straight, left bent in air with arms mirroring legs.
-Kartwheel into floor, into tummy roll.
-Shift X2 to standing to pencil turn into side fall to the back
-Fall to floor on the left side
-Roll to front stretching out then in roll to back
-contract up then elbow in then drop, repeat this twice.

Motif 2:- Happiness, this shows them flying and being free like in the stporoy when they start to fly. This could be shown through being elevated and resistant.

-Jazz 3rd (right inverted) ripple x2 with right arm
-Right up leg to wide 4th left leg bent
-turn to diagonal back into second facing diagonal right corner
-Bulchange to 4th with bent front leg to face diagonal left corner
-Contract to push off to land on left leg to left down stage
-Hook right round left sharp down up then sharp head right
-Step right jump and swap legs into roll
-Stand up with right leg inverting/twisting into turn then push into pose on right leg with low arebesce
-Step then jump floor
-Into small cartwheel with head up into a shift back the way I came
-Stand up to right knee by left with hand spread above head

Motif 3:- Try to build wings, the inverted legs show a animalistic feel the hand of being crossed and spread out show the wing/feather feel.

-Invert feet to back of room hand above twist hand x2
-Right leg up then down to first facing front
-Crumple to inverted legs
-Lift right leg up left leg then do it sharp
-Push right out into invertion then lift body/arms up and twist hands again 

-Into bird with tondue out of left lift up

-Into two bent legs into turn with arms up near ear

-Roll to front, push knee to the side rebound

-Shift to back into handstand bum the highest then tilt with counter balance (face back right up and bent)

-2turns with hands flexed

-step to diagonal (right leg to right corner) bend on left leg

-Step right then left with back bent falling forwards 

-Parallel plié curved I've then stack up body

-Step right left into down then faster arabesque with parrelle arms reaching forward

-Step right left into pirouette position right foot up

-Turn round right leg slide to floor tummy roll shift into standing on rise and collapse to invert