Dancing in West side story
The use of dancing in West Side Story sets the actions and installs themes.
Dancing is effective in this play because it represents the roles and the emotions they try to create during the play.Dancing helps us to understand what the emotions of the characters are, for exapmle if they are dancing violently it shows us that they feel anger while when they are dancing gracefully we can understand they are in a happy situation. For example at the beginning of the fighting scence between Bernardo and Raff,all the attacks and the dodges are dancing moves,and are mostly danced with the fists and the blade of their knife.In contrast the part when Maria and Tony are talking on balconies,their movement are slow and peacefull.Overall, the dancing scenes are used to emphazise the movments and actions of the characters,from love to hostility.
1.Are the dancing fights better than the fights in Romeo and Juliet?
2. In which scene would you include Dancing in Act 3 ?
1. The dancing fights in West Side Story aren't as exciting, because the actors didn't fake punch very well.
ReplyDelete2. I would including dancing in Scene 2 when Juliet has her soliloquy. I would add there to emphasize how in love she is with romeo.
- Verena
1. No, they were not as powerful, because they did not punch realistically throughout the dancing it didn`t communicate the massage of fight and hate strongly.
ReplyDelete2. I would include the dancing also in Act 2 because nice and slow dancing can communicate a lot of feelings, therefore, if Juliet is dancing to her word of love it demonstrates how intense the love is.
Caroline Werner
1. The dancing fights in West side story were very sensetive,in Romeo and Juliet it is a lot more violent and intense
ReplyDelete2. I would say when Juliet tells her soliloquy, it would fit to her dancing arround her room to show how happy she is about her live at the moment.
Julian Pohl