Machines

Themes

Starting materials

• What are they?

What does a machine look like?

• Knobs
• Lights
• Switches
• Buttons

End product

• What does it do?

Wheels and Cogs

• Clocks
• Twist
  • Different body parts to face different directions
• Turn
  • Whole body actions, spin, change levels
• One action affects the next and then the next
  • Canon

Sound

• Percussion
  • Rhythm
  • Beat
  • Consistent
  • Regular

Machine operative

• What do they do?
• How do they do it?

On/Off

Production line

• One action affects the next and then the next – Canon
  • Dominoes knocking one another over
• Boredom
• Repetition
• Small contribution to a big picture
• Conveyer Belt
  • Group dance where each child contributes a small part towards the whole product, strong, rhythmical, whole body, robotic, one bit goes wrong causing the others to breakdown, gradually stop, need to be fixed and then start up again, gradually gaining full speed, repeat full working order phrase

Breakdown

Start up

Pistons

• Push
  • Different body parts, push away in all directions, down, whole body weight transference, direct, jerky, strong, rhythmical
• Down
• Different levels
• Up
• Pull
  • Different body parts, pull in from all directions, slow, speed up, fast, slow down, whole body weight transference, direct, jerky, strong, rhythmical

Changes

• What goes in and how it changes when it comes out

Media