Matilda- Friday 20th January 2017

Fridays lesson was dance. In today's lesson, we was focusing on making sure that all of our movements were sharp and everyone knew the whole of the first section. Before we started going through the song we had to warm up. We done a physical warm up first which we always do at the beginning of our dance class and we all learnt it in the first week and we do it every week so we know it really well. After we had done a physical warm up we warmed up our voices because we wanted to keep our voices warm even if we wasn't singing as much in the lesson. Once we all felt warm we began to go over the song.

First, we ran through the song so that Nadine could see how far we had gotten and what we had choreographed ourselves. Once she had watched it, she said that it was good but at the beginning she thinks that we should face inwards at the younger students as we had all started facing outwards. Facing inwards at the younger students made it look more intimidating and as we are all in a freeze frame it looks really effective.  We all stood in intimidating positions so that it would be more scary for the younger children and also it would portray our characters well.We also decided that it would look effective if we all started to move slowly when the younger children started to sing "Mummy said im an angel". After we had gone through this section we went through the next section slowly so we could show Nadine what we had done and so she could show us how we could make it sharper and make the movements look bigger.As a group, we need to work on where we are spaced so that the spacing is equal at all times and to make sure that no one looks odd and out of line.


My target for next lesson is to work on my facial expressions still as we didn't work on them much this lesson and also to make sure that i can hold the tune when Sarah starts singing the harmony because at the minute i am struggling to block her out and hold my note.

This video shows what we had achieved by the end of the lesson and how far we had come.