1/3 with Dance

In this lesson we focused a lot on singing with Kim as we hadn't done much of it recently. We went through the songs, Ease on Down the Road and No bad news. I liked going through these as firstly singing is a personal fave within musical theatre but also I hadn't heard many of the class sing before so it was cool to hear everyone and to get to know the songs more. Because it was kind of the first time that we were all singing to together, I think it was good that we did an upbeat fun song that everyone could get into.

After we did singing with Kim we started working out No Bad News which is Evilenes song. We firstly discussed how we wanted as a group to base the song as in each version the workers are doing different things lastly Rachel put forward that we should make it a vinyl factory and everyone liked it as it went with the time of the show and made the dance more interesting and less confusing for the dancers. I really like this idea as makes the piece more edgy and cool also i love a good prop with a dance. Dorothy isn't a part of this number as it is before the witch and Dorothy have met one another. So I mainly helped with choreography ideas with Bu, but I also started working on my number I have to create which is everybody Rejoice. I researched different versions people had done and then listened to the version we had before writing down ideas that I had as well as costume ideas.

In this lesson I think that my strengths were giving choreography ideas, my weakness was probably not the song lyrics 100% to improve this I will learn and listen to the songs whenever I can so that they stick in my head and make the whole show process easier I will do this by easter holidays.

In dance we went over with Kat what we had done in the lesson for No Bad News. After this we split into two half of us worked on the Crows number and the other half on the poppies number. I was involved with the Crows number. We came up with a lot of material within the number, I came up with certain moves that I thought were more characterised and crow like so the routine didn't look too dancey because that wasn't what ash wanted who was in charge of this number. At the end of the lesson we performed it to the other half of the class. We then had to write targets for ourselves based on our work in the lessons and the performing it.

I said that my coordination went well and that i remembered all the choreography. To improve i said overall that the crows needed to improve with timing however this was the first time with the music so I think after practicing with the msuci and making sure everyone knows their counts it will be okay we can practice when we have a free slot up until the show. Another improvement was posture, this we can also develop with practice, trying to maintain a crow like posture without the dance to give it more characterisation maybe do some research on crows so you can get more crow like habits in which we can insert into our routine do this by the next few rehearsals.