16 Stories...

Thursday 10th of February was the official opening for the Theatre in the college and I am very glad to say I was a part of the performance which marked the opening that night.
It consisted of eight dancers and eight actors which each told their own story throughout the piece, the story of how we got to where we are today and who helped us get there.  I really enjoyed this whole experience and collaberating with the actors was amazing, we learnt a lot over the 16 days it was created in and I am quite sad it's over now.  The piece was very emotional on the night and it created such a great atmosphere both for the performers and the audience, although it was an emotional night we all had so much fun performing.  It was something new for both the actors and the dancers, just shows you anything is possible...

21st Century Choreography

Back in December we had our 21st Century choreography assessment.  My piece was called 'Interpret This' as it was all about interpretation of images whether they be visual images or mental images.  It was based on how people view these images and interpret them in a completely different way from each other, so the idea was same image, different interpretation.  On the day i felt very pleased with my dancers performance and the only thing i thought could have made a difference at the time was if my dancers had been given some sort of interaction with one another or even an emotion, i felt this could have uplifted the piece and made it more interesting but this is something i will take into account on my next choreographic work.  We got the results for this on the 20th January, and i was very pleased with my result and i know exactly what i have to work on.
After weeks of rehearsals and creating a 5-7 minute piece, which was assessed before the Christmas break we were required to do a presentation on our choreography as evidence of the process and what we learnt throughout the experience of creating our own choreographic work.
My presentation was delivered on Monday the 7th of February, I felt like it went really well and that i was unusually organised and prepared.  I still think i could be a more confident speaker but the presentation itself included everything I thought was relevant and all the negative and positive things I will take from the experience itself such as the use of tasks and learning to be more organised and time efficient.  Overall the 21st century choreography was a great learning curve for me and i am looking forward to starting rehearsals for my IDP now :)

Showtime...

On Monday 31st of January we performed the first night of our 'First Footing Show' in the new theatre, which was really exciting.  Makes such a huge difference having the theatre here in the college and it's a great space to work in.
We performed a piece which was choreographed by Lisi Perry during the week we spent with her here in the college which was not an easy week! It was very intense and physical making us all very sore and tired but we pushed through and by the end of the week we had a great piece called 'Interpretation'  which was double cast.  I loved the whole process of creating this piece it made me realise how important it was to create a certain energy by performing everything as it should be everytime and enjoying doing so.
Anyway we performed this piece along with our Jazz piece which was really energetic and exciting and the night went down very well.  It was a great show :)

We were supposed to perform Monday to Thursday but unfortunately Thursdays show was cancelled due to safety regulations within the theatre, we were all very dissapointed but completely understand why it couldn't go ahead.