Medusa And Dabbing

In the beginning, Medusa was a beautiful young priestess in the temple of Athena, whose actions led to her fall into the hands of various gods. The piece is meant to communicate and explain to the audience the hardship she faced through the good, the bad and the downright tragic leading to her destruction. From losing her love, her friend and even herself.

At the beginning of the short piece, some of the choices that we had chosen to enhance the piece further were Laban’s eight efforts. This was shown through the form of gliding as the two characters of Medusa and Poseidon develop more feelings for each other. You see this in the mirroring of body language which is a way of showing the two characters bond as they begin understanding each other.

Dabbing is shown in the second scene of Medusa and Poseidon as they try to be discreet about being together, so when they are sitting on the bench getting closer to each other as time passes. When some people

Some people in our group had more knowledge of the myth then the others which had resulted in a clash of ideas but was later resolved as the group decided to focus more on the strengths of the members. As the process, we incorporated different ideas. I suggested we incorporated somebody mirroring as it would show their bond grow over time, breaking barriers and giving into temptation which leads to her breaking her vow of celibacy. Since the story talks about how Medusa turn everyone who looks her in the eye to stone, we used freeze frames to convey this in order for the audience to clearly comprehend what is happening. I also thought it would be a clever idea to incorporate some slow motion of the moment when the people are turned to stone but could not due to the absence of some members in the group and it would have been hard to explain all the changes right before the