“When I Grow Up” was one movement piece where I had to
respond to a piece of stimulus – the musical “Matilda”. As the song is taken
from a published musical there was already a context behind the piece that
meant that we had to perform the choreography in a specific way. Parts of the
choreography for this performance we were set to choreograph small movement
phrases to portray children playing. Having previous dance experience means
that I am quite comfortable when set a choreography task and so I feel this is
one of my strengths within the rehearsal process. This choreography task
allowed me to think of different ways to portray children and I explored the
ways to travel around the stage, such as running and skipping. Another strength
I felt I had in this performance was the ability to pick up the choreography
quickly and to characterise my performance to be child-like. I felt this was
particularly noticeable when Jack gave me a piggyback. If we were to perform “When
I Grow Up” again I would explore more intricate ways of portraying a child to
make it more visually engaging as I feel that at times my performance would become
slightly static as I ran out of things to do. However I always performed the
number with high energy.
I found the Jive number “Rock Around the Clock” my most
challenging number due to the complex intricacies in the lifts. Once again I
was lucky to be able to pick up the choreography quickly, having done the jive
before and so knew the ins and outs of the style. I am also able to work
efficiently with a character and so working with Tom was fun as we always
performed with high energy. I feel my weakness in this performance lay in the
lifts. There was a slight issue with the fact that Tom was just a bit too tall
for me and so it meant that we had to adjust the lifts to ensure that I didn’t
hurt myself. However we spent a lot of time rehearsing the lifts to deal with
issue efficiently. I feel that we could have perhaps been a bit neater with
some of our lifts if we had had more time to rehearse. I feel that Tom and I
made a really good partnership as we were both confident with the choreography
and timing and so were able to spend more time focusing on bringing the
performance factor to the dance.
“Nicest Kids in Town” was a lot of fun for me as the
choreography was lots of fun and really lively. Once again we were given a
stimulus (“Hairspray”) to respond to, and this was seen through the 60s style
of the choreography. I was a Chorus Captain for this dance as I picked up the
choreography quickly and was confident with teaching and helping other people. In
this number we were asked to create eight sets of eight at the end of the song,
similar to “When I Grow Up” and Cameron and I had no issue choreographing
movement but I feel that my weakness in this number and some of my other
movement numbers was that I didn’t push myself out of my comfort zones as much
as I could. I feel that I could have taken my choreography further to make it
more challenging for myself and allow me to gain possible new skills form the choreography.
Despite this wish to have challenged myself further I felt
that I was always giving 100% in this number as well as all my other movement
pieces. I was always confident in the choreography required of reach performance
and I was always capable of remaining in formation and was always comfortable
when doing partner work. I feel that I achieved a lot during this show as I
pushed myself in terms of stamina and fitness as I was always putting in extra
rehearsals so that I could perfect choreography.
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