Here are the judges comments! I bolded the ones you that are performance based not design based so it will be easier to find for you!!!
EA:
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Breaking the tension while breaking the
characters – interesting.
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Interesting – terms of the different parts of
the floor that occupy the field
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Detail in the nuances and sense
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Well designed in the complexity
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Characters
coming across strong
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Watch the
form with the flags. (pink flag angle)
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Angle of
the flag
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Sabre
relationship to each other.
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Different parts of the floor taken the weight
and shape and form from the lines and added them to the texture of the floor
elevates the design.
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Good in the textured set (sabre bat feature)
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Different vignettes
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Adding variety to the staging.
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Clever in the design of the Quartets from the
vertical lines to the opening depth that is cool
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Mood
change (from the take me out to the ball game, to the talking, to the
entertainer)
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Open space form.
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Got to be
on, on the release.
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Compress the space good.
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However,
closing set we MUST project up not to the side….!!!
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Novelty show, music different than the poetry,
did good covering it.
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Vocabulary is not as complex but what they are
doing we’re doing well.
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BUT need
to be crispy clean
Equipment:
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Sabre characterization of the actual equipment.
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How is it
being held (Sabre)
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Character driven moments
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Attention to detail in how were cradling the
sabre
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Detail in the line there
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Dynamics
in the flourish
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Release
rotational value and heights
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Correct
space between each other when holding hands
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Sampling
methodology in the technical aspect of the toss
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Multi directional focus
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Control the space when we use the form to extend
that line
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Lower
body shaping (under equipment – what does the body do when you are spinning or
tossing)
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Good degree of depth
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Velocity
picks up and we loose control on the flourish and the shape of the arm inconsistent look
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Weight
shifts and hand to hand.
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Rifle
understand where it is suppose to be to body
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Flags
doing good job to work through velocity driven moments.
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Different
layers and complexity to have to move around show good degree of responsibility
form performers
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Dynamics
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Degree of
consistency of the height and hand placement of the end flag
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Consistency
with heights and rotational value across the board, hand placement, lower body
contributions, sabre relative to the body. (he’s talking about where are our
hands catching. What do our heights look like? Are the flags rotating together?)
GE:
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Strong set design
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Costume design to create the team and baseball
diamond
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Clear thematic approach and are you using the
voice and the baseball hit. It may have been there and he didn’t see the ball
hit. Density of performers on the stage muddied the intro
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Are you using the baseball diamond reference
independent
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Question the Adam section. Yeah nice moment for the rifle toss.
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Announcer not sure if its affective as we intend
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cute idea with bats coming out
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Question we have this strong graphic… are you
using it.
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Staging independent of the floor
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Good choreography straight line
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Little bit of a jumbled mess in the quartet (staging)
some on tan some on green with the costume colors and the flag colors with the
directional lines not reading very well.
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Red flag contrast everything so this is fine, we
can read past the design lines.
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Cheeky and humor doing great.
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Bring everyone into the square at the end and
this is affective.
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Develop those ideas and use the positive and
negative space on the floor.
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Get a stronger reaction from the events hard to
see and identify the focal point due the visual busyness, the flags and the
floor, and the colors.
Movement:
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Beautiful
the sabre roll back
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Great
prep in the barrel turn
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Grand
plea (BAD)
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Multiple
responsibilities sabers within the close responsibility
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Blade on
the move
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Flags
stay steady under the small toss no
reason for motion
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Clear
from count to count don’t want to over anticipate the next count and move to
early from the flip toss in the diagonal.
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Sense of style and grace
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Technique
of lowering yourself and moving farther, beautiful jazz walk run
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Rifles
building
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Lift of
the torso and lift through the head
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Inconsistent
with the lower body moving into the block, blending moving out before finishing
the phrase.
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Great character
moment
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Multiple
events, great sense of leg line while the ground flag work, straight leg.
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Level change line by line watch the level
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Shift of
weight (check)
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To much motion under the toss. DON’T MOVE YOUR FEET
“Come on Now!”
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Looking
good for February – strong training program in place – use the ground and work
the ground – leave the ground in preparation
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Sense of
lightness
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Consistent
use of breath
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Moving
together as one.
