Master of the house performance

our piece

Over all I think our performance went well. For example my characterization was persistent all the way through and I maintained the characters cockney accent  within the song which was vital for keeping the persona of the character strong over the entire performance. Also I think i worked well with the timing of the music and the pace, i always kept up and never overlap the music which can be a challenge in this song . Also I do think overall I was imaginative through out my vocal and physical expression within the performance. However there where points i could improve for next time. For example at one point in the song "everybody's chaperon" my voice went too high and sounded squeaky . This had always proved to be a hard line for me to belt out as id have to uncomfortably use my head voice. In rehearsals myself and max would always give it our best we even had Luke watch some of our rehearsals and we asked him what went well and what could we improve.
 Maybe to practice "everybody's chaperon"  I could do some range and flexibility exercises and see if it makes any improvement. Also even though I thought our movement across the stage was good to improve, we could interact with the audience to make it more engaging and interesting this would also make our physical characterization look even better.  

30th Jan Dance rehearsal

Today Lesson we continued to run the dance. I worked well on characterization and getting into the style of the dance and music . However I still need to work on my co-ordination and confidence within the dance. It is hard to look confident when you feel as though the dance isn't going well . We also discussed what costumes we where going to wear. As a class we choose a black t-shirt, Black leggings , black shoes , red lipstick and a little neck scarf.

Dv8 Enter achillies

Dance Lesson One

Dv8: Enter Achillies

Dv8 is a dance group that look a realistic situations or environments and create fantastic dances based on simple things.For example we watch a video clip called Enter Achillies. It was based on a simple surrounding - a pub with a common but not acceptable problem- discrimination against gay people. The dance characterization  was of drunk men acting rowdy at the local pub with they're work mates. Then they would group together to discriminate the gay man. They're dance was sluggish and heavy footed to portray they influence of alcohol ! Where as the gay man had stereotypical gay,  flowing movements all with perfect alignment and extension. 

Our task was to learn an interpretation of Enter Achillies.

Our First Dance

I think for our first try at this dance we did really well to have a strong memory of the dance moves and we had alot of fun with it. However to improve our dance i think i  need to focus on my timing and characterization. For example i think my posture needed to be hunched over and i needed to look lower down in height. Also i needed to sway abit more to portray someone whose had a thew too many ! And my timing was a little off, with time and confidence of learning the moves well i can keep up! 

Dance Lesson Two

Dancing Skill

Physical Skills                      

• Flexibility                 
• co-ordination

• posture
• Extension
• Stamina
• Strength
• Alignment
• Balance

Interpretative 

• Musicality
• Facial expression
• Focus
• Projection

Dance Lesson 3 

My Final Piece

 

Review of my dance

I really liked our dance because we where very creative with original moves. We used techniques like cannon in our piece which made it more original and it looked very professional.

When reviewing myself i would say my physical skills where ok. For example i thought my characterization looked really appropriate to the brief (acting drunk). However my extension needs to improve! I need to be more confident with the moves and hold my limbs strongly. I also need to relax into the movements and focus my eye line.My targets are to keep strong extensions and confidence for the moves. Because if i don't have a strong extension i will look unprofessional and unsure of what i'm doing.

Combined Lesson with Emily and Kim

In todays lesson with Kim we did a warm up exploring scales and harmonies. We also practised intervilas to help with our duets.






In todays lesson with Emily we had a recap of all the dances we had learnt . I found it very diffiult to keep up and coordenate movements. However my extension was good and I maily focused on characterisation. We have a rehearsal day tuesday 1-3 so that will be helpful. We also have to think about costume for grease .

thursday 22nd

In todays lesson we worked on Stlyalised pedestrian movement. This is where you take basic movements and change the pace or exaggerate movements so they almost look like a sequenced dance. Holly and Myself paired up again to work on the movents togther. We had to think of movements we thought would syimblosie certain scenes in the play. We then had to change the pace and exaggerate certain movements. Even repeating some movememts. After showing the class we then filmed it and ran it in one big piece as a whole class. This is the finished piece .

Tuesday the 20th

In todays lesson with Rachel we worked one to one with the actor playing the same part as myself in the other cast . I was working with holly Hoskinson. To start the whole class had to learn the different stages of tension from point 1 neutral to 7 extremely exaggerated.
After me and Holly paired up and thought about different stages in the play where Lisa our character ranged from a 1 to a 7 . For example we thought the line "I was just dancing! What the fuck is wrong with dancing !?" would be a 7 . Lisa is distressed because she is doing something she thinks is innocent however she is getting punish for it. We acted different lines out to each other and then picked our favourite contrasting ones. Then we would perform 2 separate lines to the class they would then have to guess what level of tension that line was depending on how we acted the dialogue out. After this we learnt what 'sub texting' is . Sub texting is what the character is actually thinking compared to what they are actually saying . After this we had ago at actin gout scene one. Holly went first with her cast then I went second with my cast . After we then had to improvise the second act with the sub text we had created for our characters . It was a challenged as each character had a goal they had to for fill . But It gave me a good understanding out what Lisa would really be thinking to her self and how that would effect her mannerisms.
To finish off the lesson we went off into our separate cast and had ago at blocking act 2 from the start.

Master of the House rehersals 19th

Today I rehearsed the song Master of the house with Max and Kim. It went well, we shorted out the right pitch and tiempo of the song . The one thing we need to work on is the tone and characterization of the chararcters within the song. We also discussed what costume we would want to wear we would have to research the french revillution and get insperation from there.