Blog 1

Monday- This week we started our show work, firstly we began with our ballet piece. I enjoyed learning this piece because it was not just classical/ technical ballet, it was a lot more modern and has influences of contemporary. I picked it up quite quickly which just shows how much my ballet has improved since I first joined the college. The lesson after ballet was musical theatre where we also started off show piece. It is to a song called ‘Candy Store’ from the musical Heathers, I have never heard of this song or musical before however I have seen the film, which I love, so I already know the story line. This is an advantage because I found it relatively easy to get into character. In the afternoon we planned our rehearsal schedule up until the show. As well as fitting in group pieces and solos Mary told us we would perform duo, trios and quartets in various styles. I am doing a rock and roll quartet, a musical theatre trio and a singing trio. We found it extremely difficult to fit in time to choreograph and finish all of these pieces. We all agreed that each Mondays studio time should be for solos the rest of the schedule is not set yet. The last lesson of the day was tap I love the show dance we started, I struggle with it as I have never attempted half of the moves Kelly choreograph because I have never done tap at that high of a level before. I definitely need to practice at home to get it clean.

Tuesday- Today we started our commercial dance, the song was very usual and I struggled to count it and the style is a very specific kind of commercial however with practice i think it will get easier. We also had studio time and as it is our first we starting show work we decided on solos, I already knew what song and idea I want to use so I was already ahead of everyone else who was still searching for their songs so Maddy and I decided to find music for all of our other pieces, as we are together for all of our mini groups. We found a remix of broken heels for rock and roll, diamonds are a girls best friend or a song called piano man for our musical theatre.

Wednesday- The only show work we did today was to start our contemporary group. The movements were very slow and basic however it looks very effective, it also meant we got a lot done in one lesson as well as making it clean.  

Thursday- We began our modern dance, I like the song we are dancing to, I also found it quite easy to connect with the character/ performance and style of the piece as I have done a dance similar before. The choreography we learnt is the piece of unison we will perform at the beginning so it was difficult to add on too much without both classes together. As well as starting modern we also began learning choreography for street as its a mash up of songs we learnt the first song called trini dem girls. the style is a mix of fem and hip hop. I found the second section a lot easier to pick up than the first I think this is because it is slower and more specific movements so i know exactly what to do. I struggled more with the first section because its where you add more of your own style and ‘swag’ and I’m unsure of what mine is yet.