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Module 1 consisted of each individual dance pupil being instructed to perform a solo dance, which was to last between two and three minutes in duration and based on one of the four-dance stimulus. After much consideration I chose the stimulus based on Henri Matisse "Blue Nudes." The "Blue Nudes" were three individual and unique abstract poses of a woman, the body being blue in colour and the background white, My immediate response to the entire stimulus was to select either the poem "Trinity at Low Tide" or the "Blue Nudes." The "Four elements" would be very difficult to compose a dance for because of the necessity to make use of the different planes, when the Isshin Emerging music was first played, my immediate response would be that it would be an original piece of music to construct a dance to. However after careful consideration, the sensible conclusion was that perhaps too difficult to be influenced by another countries music and their traditions without actually partaking in the dancing style that would have originally been used to the music. Re-looking at both stimulus of the "Blue Nudes" and "Trinity at Low Tide" I felt that it would be better to use the "Blue Nudes" because as a stimulus it allowed freedom; it did not