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UNIT 1 - 7th October 2019


Practical lesson 1:

The first lesson was practical work. We started the lesson with a warm up for:
  1. The body 
  2. The voice 
  3. Energy – Helping us wake up as this class is early in the morning 


Afterwards we went over our performance for Wednesday. When rehearsing everyone was not in character so the performance didn’t look it’s best. When going over the performances some people would get inpatient and annoyed which wasn’t good as it showed we were not working together.

We then went over the dance routine. The people who were in the dance had to start at the beginning as Dee wasn’t here on Thursday to learn the rest of the dance. This showed teamwork and patience as they helped her with the dance. The teacher Shenagh got them to start the dance without the music and do the movements at a slow pace. As everyone improved, they got to do the moves faster but sometimes they would have to do it slow again as some would do something incorrect. Then everyone in the dance went to help another person in the dance as they were struggling and needed help doing the right moves which showed a lot of teamwork and patience. Also, when some of the team didn’t know the moves, they would stop dancing and look at the others and they would laugh. If they can laugh at their mistakes this showed that they don’t take things seriously and they just want to have fun when doing this dance.

We then went through the whole piece.


Practical work 2:
Our second lesson was practical work. In this lesson we went over our piece for identity.

Whilst going over it the first time (which was ok) Rob wanted us to go over it a second time so we could tidy it up. 
Rob gave me a target from the first time doing my verbatim in that lesson which was to:
  1. Not talk fast
  2. Speak slower and clear
  3. Take my time
  4. Look around as if I am answering questions from the audience.

When doing it the second time I was able to achieve this target which was successful.
When the team was going over the dance, some of dancers walked out of the dance and started to cheer instead as they didn’t know all the routine and there was only 3 people left on stage doing the dance. This let-down the routine as the other people doing the dance were really good.

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