Thursday, May 25, 2006

.:ASSIGNMENT 3:.

Development of theatre dance

1) Organisation
http://www.theplace.org.uk/

This website- the place is an organization webpage where it is the United Kingdom's premier centre for contemporary dance, uniting training, creation and performance which is all held in one unique building. They work with dancers age 5 and up. The Place also brings new talent into the dance profession and guides artists through their careers.This website has very attractive colours that attract the reader(s) attention well. It is also being divided to different sections for different targeted market groups. With this, it would enable the reader, dancers and anyone to find out about the organization much easily. The webpage also has its original look and important links on dance. I think the webpage is being organized well.

2) Organisation
http://www.ncarts.edu/ncsaprod/dance/faculty.asp

This website is about a company which provides not only dance classes but it also showcase the aim of the company into developing interest for theatre dance. It shows the different theatre dance that the students have show cast before. Not only do they promote their organization, however, they inserted few descriptions about the dance teacher and the people working in the dance school. The webpage is being divided into sections for easy access to readers.

3) Personal
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_6_75/ai_75089739

This article is a review about the Repertory Dance Theatre by Jessica Peterson. In this review, she states about the movement, sound effects and visuals on dance movement. This article is interesting as it writes about the artistic director, Linda C. Smith,
Utah native who led the 35-year old, 9 member company in producing a suite of works for the Western Landscape. It is a collaboration of arts (movement) with landscaping.

4) Subject-based
http://www.dance4it.com/dancehistory.htm

The website is about the origins of how dance actually came about and how it is being used in the common world today. Dance is a body movement hoever, nowadays it is also used for theatre dances and etc. The particular webpage, focuses on how dance actually came about. It is a content-based website.

5) Subject-based
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bausch/tanzdef.html

This is a subject-based webpage. It only has information on how dance theatre originated from. This is a short subject-based kind of webpage which enables the reader to have a brief understanding on the topic.

Reflections on your searching activity:

1. Which search facility/ies did you use?

Web Search Engines (www.google.com)

2. Write down all the keywords you had used for searching the resources. Identify those keywords that yield relevant or better search results.

Dance movements in theatre, theatre dance, modern theatre dance, subject-based+'theatre dance'+

3. What are the major differences amongst the three types of websites?

-Organisation: The target group differs. The main purpose is to target to people from all ages and to market out their business. In organization websites, they used serious tone to send their message across to readers/consumers. On the other hand, they are very detailed and clear in informing their customers on their organization so that they would be easily understood as busy people do not have enough time to read unnecessary information.

-Personal: In personal websites, the writer relates to his/her own experiences and it is maintained by an individual. The tone used would be casual.

- Subject-based: In this kind of websites, they provide information about the certain topic/ issues involved. The tone of writing would be formal. The information would be based on facts and not opinion, etc.



hamba blogged at 3:18 PM