Rock Around the Clock

One of the dance pieces I was part of was the jive "Rock Around the Clock". Rehearsals began with learning the choreography. The dance was performed in partners and I was working with Tom and for me the most challenging part of the dance was working in a partnership with Tom as we had to combat a height difference. 

During rehearsals Tom and I spent a lot of time working on the lifts within the dance, such as the swing lift and the butterfly. These lifts required me to be able to trust Tom in lifting me as well as being able to hold my own weight to allow Tom to swing me around.

My target during the rehearsal process to was improve my execution during the lifts so that they looked slick when performed within the choreography.

 

As we neared the technical rehearsals we found that as a group there was a timing issue in the choreogrpahy that we had to fix. This involved walking through the choreography whilst counting through the timing to ensure that everyone was moving at the same time.

 

By the time we reached the tech and dress runs I was confident with the choreography and Tom and I had rehearsed the lifts repeatedly so that we were both confident in the execution of the lifts and we were able to perform them with more stamina than in early rehearsals.