Bhangra- Week 5!

Monday 14th March 2011
On monday we decided that we were going to aim to develop motifs and develop the dance and choreography within the storyline. We worked really hard on emotion and what our character would be thinking at every point in the story. My character would mostly be upset because she wouldnt want her son to marry a woman form another religion. We also worked hard on interacting with one enother within the dance because we were constantly dancing as a solo artist without recognising that there were other people around us. Also in this lesson we managed to work particularky hard on the end scene where the couple would be split up and we would dance seperately. As an outcome of this lesson we fully completed the routine and added emotion and story alothough we did decide that this could use some more work. We also thought that we could keep going over the choreography so that everybody was absolutly certain about what they were doing.

Tuesday 15th March 2011
Tuesday was our double lesson. As a group we decided that we needed a lunch rehearsa. Overall our total lesson aim was to develop motifs, finish the routine and to develop emotion and character. In the first lesson we finished all the choreography for our overall performance and we made sure all memebers of our group understood where they were dancing in each scene, where they would be moving to and how. In our lunch rehearsal we changed a little bit of the routine because, when we danced it to the music all the way thorugh we found that this part of the dance, in particular, didn't really work. Everybody in the group were struggling with this part. We had a small break at the end of lunch because it is important that you have time to recover, relax and to re-hydrate. In the final lesson of the day we continually re-ran our routine and fitted it in place with the other group. This was because we were performing at caberet and had to all dance as one. In the next lessons that would keep practising  the routine, remeber changes and to rememeber the other groups routine if people needed to. As an outcome we polished the routine and made sure everyone remembered teh routine.

Wednesday 16th March 2011
We said that in this lesson we needed to re-polish teh routine and finalise it with the routine. We practised most of the parts that were needed for the other group. We as a whole 'btec performing arts group' worked on the end possitions. We also had our rehearsal for caberet which allowed us to work out possitions on the stage. We said that in the following lessons before caberet we would practise everything that we were unsure about in the rehearsal.

Thursday 17th March 2011
We continually ran the whole routine and made sure everyone understood what they were doing. In this lesson we performed it to younger students and asked for their opinion. They thought it was brilliant. We said we should work on the end positions for timings.

Friday 18th March 2011
We worked out the timings and the other groups lift. We put everything together and made sure it was brilliant. In caberet we had to make sure we were OTT and smiled alot!
Caberet.
Caberet was amazing, I really enjoyed myself. we all put huge amounts of energy and i had some people tell me we made it look effortless. The stories came togther and this was shown in the audience's feedback. There was an amzing atmosphere and i really enjoyed myself.