Matilda- Friday 24th February 2017

Today’s lesson was my groups dance lesson. To start the lesson, we warmed up with our normal routine to ensure that we were all warm and all of our muscles were ready for us to dance. We also done a vocal warm up focusing on our diaphragm and diction. After warming up, we began to recap the choreography which we had done to make sure everyone as 100% with it and everyone knew where they had to be at what time so that everything would work.  After we had run through the number a couple of times up to where we had choreographed we decided that we would finish it all off. We had thought about the ending in other lessons but none of could agree with each other on what to do. After going through many ideas, I came up with the idea of getting into a pyramid and doing some sharp movements to certain letters. Everyone liked the idea of this so we started to set in a decided where we would be in the pyramid. We decided that we should have different levels in the pyramid. One person kneeling on the floor, two people kneeling higher and four people standing at the back.  For the sharp movements, Sarah, Claudia and I were going through different things to see what would work and what arm movements would look most effective. We also decided that we would only do sharp arm movements on the letters “A,E,H,L,P,S,V,X”. WE figured out that we couldn’t do sharp arm movements for every letter as it would be to quick and we wouldn’t be able to keep up and it would look messy and we didn’t want that. After we had figured out what arm movements worked we taught it to the rest of the group and they all liked it and picked it up really quickly which was good as it meant we could keep going over it so we could just keep making it sharper and sharper because the sharper it is the better it will look. As we were all able to do this, we decided to a slight canon at the end to show more skills and we thought it would look effective.

My target for lesson was to finish of the song and we have managed to do that. I feel as though we know have a strong ending which will look effective. My target for next lesson is to really work on characterisation and to see what sections I need to build up more of a character.