Matilda- Friday 13th January 2017

Friday was my first time hearing and learning the song "School Song" from the musical Matilda. I had started late after everyone else and they had all had a few lessons before me so i knew i needed to learn quickly and remember everything. 

In my first lesson, we was starting to learn the choreography for the first half of the number. Before we started to learn the set choreography, we had to warm up to ensure that we didn't injure ourselves and had to make sure we was warm. After we had warmed up, i sat and watched my group run through the number once to see what they had already done and i felt as though they had started to learn the song really well. When i got up we started to learn the set moves. We started learning the section of the dance where we sing "before i first heard the peeling of the bell". Our first movement was a sharp movement where we point up as if we was pointing at a bell. We all had to have sharp movements for this whole section so that it would look effective. In this section we do a canon movement where the first person in the triangle throws there hand in the air like a small child and then the next row do that and then the next. I think that this looked strong and made us all look in unison. All of the movements are simple but i think that sometimes simple is better because we can all pick it up quickly and work on it more so that it looks secure. 

Also, i had been given the lyrics to learn but whilst i was trying to learn the choreography it was hard to learn the lyrics. I picked up a couple of lyrics whilst we was going through the dance because some movements go with the lyrics and some lyrics i have to do a movement on so i needed to know where to move. I felt like i was behind in the group as everyone else nearly knew all the words which meant i had to learn quickly but i knew if i put my head to it i would be able to learn them. Moreover, i need to think about characterisation and how my character (an older school girl) would act and how i would act around the younger school children. 

To improve for next lesson, i am going to watch a few YouTube videos to see how i can further my characterisation more and find out more about how to act as this character. Also, i am going to listen to the song to make sure that i learn the lyrics so that i wont be behind everyone else and so that i can focus on the choreography and my character. 


The video i watched was-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2FAOfRnEY