In yesterdays lesson, we started the choreography for 'All the thinks you can think' - Seussical. We started talking about motifs wee could used. Such as just an arm movement to represent we are thinking, but doing that over again and also when we say the word Seuss we do that same punch up in the air arm movement. We learnt the first section, and we did it in sections with our families. Sam then said, that we had to choreograph a certain section of the song. We got th end section, where it repeats 'All the thinks you can think' so we just thought that we could do a few different poses but make them all to do with just thinking, but make them very cheesy and very over the top and big. So we had a while to do that, then we had to learn everyones little sectin that they had choroegrpahed themselves. We started off learning it and it was going very well and the piece was peicing together well. Learning everyones little section was good and it meant that we had done it all by ourselves and that we were doing well. We didn't get round to showing everyone our little section but it was ok because we were doing well learning everyone else sections and piecing it all together. We were worrking well. Although I thought this was going well, there were some downfalls about it. We didn't finish it. Because everyone was talking over everybody and nobody was listening to who was talking, we didn't have enough time to finish what we ahd started and wanted to complete.
In todays lesson, we worked on America. We worked on piecing the words and the timing on to the music. We also had the year 12s join in. We spoke more about costume ideas and what we thought would look best on everyone. For the girls, we decided on floaty skirts, and a top or nice floaty dresses and for the boys we decided on black jeans and a black top and converse for shoes and for the girls barefoot or character shoes. We rehearsed everything so it was ready for black history month. We also learnt the ending which the year 12s new we didn't, so we learnt that and placed us for that. We also had to do a bit of partner work at the end, so I found a partner (Maisie as she was playing a boy) and worked out a little finishing pose. Which worked well, because there were poses up in the air and standing up poses and ours which was a lower pose. We went through it a few times which was good and then filmed it. We then did it properly with evryone singing and it was sounding/looking great. From my point of veiw.
In todays lesson, we worked on 'America'. We had to get it done. So the first thing we talked about was how we wanted to set the beginning. We watched the film version of America and tried to get as much of the movements written down. We had a few ideas, we we were working on such as, the boys on one side of the room and the boys on the other and Anita and Bernado having a competition of the sexes to see what they think about America. We then just did little movements to represent how we were feeling being in America and reacting to what she was saying e.g. 'money owing' we would do a little had gesture symbolising money and other things like that. We then fit our little dance routine that we had in time with the music and because it was in 6/8 the timing was slightly harder than everyone though but because I understood the music, I got the hang of it a bit quicker. Sam also said to us that on every other bar is an accented 123 bar which was good, so we knew which move could fit in where. It was peicing together really well and it was sound great also.
In today's lesson we did a few warm up exercises; it's important to warm up because otherwise you l injure yourself. We did a few exercises from the corner e.g leg flicks because it links to America and then we went over our routine from last week - America routine. This week Sam told us that the timing of the song was going to be hard to choreograph to and hard to pick up the timing. We had to do it though otherwise it wouldn't be done.
Last week in dance we learnt a few routines for our 'America' routine.
This is the first rehearsal of our routine. We started doing a warm up with movements based aorund the 'West Side Story' choreography. Very punchy movements. I
