Category: Induction Project

Wednesday at one review with course staff 26th September

Today was all about sharing the different pieces we had so far whether they were finished or not, it was a chance to show things off as a work in progress.

Levels 2 and three first and second years met in the theatre to watch each others work; Work varied from dance to acting to singing and in some cases all three. We were given feedback about each performance and how we can improve them.

We started with Dancin’ fool, this piece is probably our best as we have been working on it for the full time we have been on the course, this was reflected in the feedback that it was ‘very polished’, the next piece I did was a town called mallace, this was good as we have not had as much time to work on this and this was shown in the feedback we received ‘Some bits were cleaner than others’ this is just showing us that there are parts we need to work on, I know that I really need to work on the heel digs as I’m still not getting it.

We then went onto the fairytales which sadly my group could not perform due to and absence in the group and very little time to amend the gap.

Presentations with Karma 25th September

This was all about presenting our research to our performer as storyteller assignment, my research was not the best as it was from blogs and forums instead of articles and books however it was still an attempt. I feel my presentation went well and that I demonstrated I have some ability to research however I know my research needs to be more in depth and I need to reference all sources.

Dance with Jo 25th September

Today we looked at practising the prop piece to music and working on the timing to which each group would enter. This went well as groups found que words in the song to let them know when to do certain parts of their piece so this helped keep the piece within the timing. we also did some work on a town called mallace. To improve I can practice a town called mallace at home.

Dance with Jo 24th September

Today’s session was about us working on our prop pieces and the ‘a town called mallace piece’ this was to help get it ready for Wednesday at 1. In the prop piece me and Holly worked on our characterisation and timing to ensure the story gets across to our target audience. In ‘a town called mallace’ we also worked on our characterisation and polishing the piece to make it clean and effective. To improve I need to work on and practice the heel digs in a town called mallace.

Musical theatre with Karma 18th September

In today’s session we did more work on polishing Dancin’ fool, this is because it is a piece we are working toward for a public performance, we looked at cleaning up spacing and making it a bit more exciting, we did this by parting to reveal Cameron scatting, this was good as it demonstrated great musicality. To improve I must ensure that my body work is clean.

Body Conditioning with Karma 19th September

In today’s session we focused on getting focused as we had a visiting theatre company coming in, ‘The Dreadnought Company’ they were doing a workshop with us in the day, we did maniac as I’ve previously talked about in another post from the 17th September.  We then did a vocal warm up to get us ready for acting in the workshop, this was good as it was to prevent us damaging our voices or ourselves.