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https://youtu.be/hoVtry-rcH4

This was the last lesson before the assessment, the last lesson where everything came down too.. attempting to follow all of my targets that I previously set for myself in this recording, once again following the characteristics that i made for myself a few lessons ago, showing attitude and making the audience believe in the performance. giving emotion and a story in the way I move..

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60S0p_eUT0&index=3&list=PLD8zZ8tV_tkpVZDTuah5gfzxCNGxj5o09

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwXjPvXu4p4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9AGqtQ2VI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46KP59oOJA

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These are the essential ingredients to a successful scene where used used to guide my work.

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Transitive verbs in order for my duolouge 

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Transitive verbs in order for my duolouge 

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This piece of paper helped me action every step of my final piece, the process of questioning what we wanted from the piece  and what goals each character wanted really helped establish our scene adding depth and detail for the audience as much as the actors themselves,

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This list helped my and Kirk to order out our piece and hopefully it payed off as i thought we had a rather successful scene, in the early days of our reversals we made sure to highlight these questions and therefore got more of an in depth analysis of our characters and their situations.

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After following the dream girls west end show on youtube I put together this outfit for the performance, I looked at what the other characters wore and took into consideration the time period which was the 1960s, and end of a suited tailored generation.

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Costume aspiration for Stepping to the bad side..

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Costume aspiration for Stepping to the bad side..

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These where the characters I based my costume off, following a tradition dress style for the period of the Dream girls, I personally found it also helped me get into character while performing as it added more attitude

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This Lesson was our final whole session before the assessment date itself.
I walked into the session with that playing on my mind, it was all being built to almost 48Hours from now, I was focused and determined and channelled it into the characteristic.
After revising my target that I gave myself the least lesson I also held that in mind. I gave myself character traits that I thought my character would want to reflect during their dance routine after going through what they have. In my routine I wanted to show Attitude, Poise, and confidence. I also remembered my past targets of not wanting to waste anytime at all, and making sure to purely concentrate on the dance itself at the points I did not remember so well. I did all these things reflecting back to my padlet when needed in order to get rediscover where I had previous trouble. I did all of these things and left the session feeling like I got the most I could out of it

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Phillip Costume reflecting on his personal life.

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Phillip Costume reflecting on his personal life.

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This is the costume I chose to reflect the character Phillip,
On the day the scene takes place Phillip went to see Oliver to collect some of his belongings...

I chose a shirt to reflect a self respecting 35 year old man, ironed and clean, his trousers where pressed and neat reflecting his professional career as a photographer, In my mind he isn't a trendy person, rather than a sensible man whom sticks to classics..

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During this session Kirk and I thought lots about our staging and the ways our characters would talk to each other following out character biography talking detail from the age of our characters and the history of them. we also blocked some of the staging for specific lines, moments that would be effective and reflect the true emotions that the characters are going through. for example eye contact could create enough tension to cut with a knife giving the audience a sense of awkwardness reflecting how the characters feel. also Kirks character would try to win me over with kindness and love but my character remains cold, true to his intentions and not easily being won over while he is still feeling raw. we thought how we could show this in movements and staging and not just words.

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WWW: in this lesson I thoroughly believe i achieved my goal that I set last week as i managed to successfully use the time to my benefit, not wasting anytime procrastinating. often getting compliments from Helen for how focused i was. trying to put myself into the characters shoes helped as you are constantly in a focused ambitious state of mind. I also believe that i learnt the final routine really effectively and with some more polishing it will look great

EBI: As this is one of the final rehearsal leading up to the final assessment date i need to ensure I completely understand each moment and polish it all up in time for the assessment in order to show the full extent off my ability and have the ability to add my personal characters traits to the moments, otherwise the movements will just look robotic and wont be pleasurable to watch

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This was the Final dance move that we added into our routine as a whole. It was a prime opportunity during the final posses to show the attitude and positions we thought our characters would feel. for example the hands on hips with a big chest, I viewed that position as my characters way of saying "give me your best shot" to the audience.
https://youtu.be/VYJD-0RHc58

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in this weeks lesson we achieved a lot of work, some polishing and some creating new and even more technical and good looking routines.

we stared off with our warm ups and stretches exactly the same as last week, we then moved onto the routine at hand. lots of polishing and revising critically assessing our performing and dance techniques and even including traits from drama , our characters for example... we payed a lot of attention to the history of our character, how to they feel doing this dance? why are they doing it? are they better than the others but being misunderstood? we assessed how all these traits would affect somebody doing this dance and performed it in the way we would feel.

we also added a move from the dance into our warm up, this move was easily muddled up and we there wanted to practise it more. After we spent time doing this in our warm up we realised that instantly the execution of the steps became more instinctive and fluid therefore adding to the visual pleasure of the final piece.

Towards the end of the routine we also added a large chunk of the dance. one reason for this is because we obviously need an ending, in this ending we payed close attention the the dance skin set.. personally I chose to focus on the precision and detail while performing the routine while also remembering the reasons of my character, especially while holding poses. these poses are a window into how we think our character would be, cocky confident and proud. showing the audience how we feel about the dance confident in our ability.

This session was also a chance to show off our costume that we developed for our character.
mine consisted of a shirt, a tie and a waistcoat closely following the dress of the actors in the west end show, the session allowed up to see if we could move freely during the dance and not completely restrict our moment.

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There are many different types of audience and conventions

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These where given to us by Darren as vital reminders of key factors to include in our scenes named "ten in

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To my sincere joy, Darren battled out his illness and came to join us on this day showing us his commitment and ambition that shan't be taken for granted.
on the previous lessons in my reflections i wrote about analysing the characters of this piece, what they want and who they are, them kinds of things.. this lesson we took each and every one of those factors and rehearsed relentlessly with only a fifteen minute break there between. we also where given some vital feedback, "less is more" said Darren in response to our piece, this was possibly due to our emotions taking over the scene.. constant shouting to reflect anger is bad acting, as that's not what always happens in them situations.
we noted that down and planned it into our scenes the way we look at one and other, and how sometimes not talking at all can mean more than a thousand words, which leads me into how we incorporated silence and eye contacted into our scene to add emotion and tension.

We also added into what we discussed last week regarding outfits we should wear, we again discussed in depth and realised we forgot one vital thing.. the age of our characters.. how could we have?

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Once again, we started off the three hour session with some stretching exorcises, loosening up our bodies for the hard session coming our way, breaking through the barrier of laziness we often get overtaken by. We then moved in out "dance buddies", im with Lucia. in our partners we once again practised our tendus, from memory and visually rehearsing with footage from previous days  i remembered the routine, the routine once again aiding our flexibility and alignment.. one other thing is balance. although its not so predominant we are still on one foot helping our balance with every movement.

we then got into our starting positions and ran through the piece looking for moments we could try to polish up, for example the moment of pushing down is a great case where the tendus came in greatly helpful. we extended out our toes as much as possible and it helps the whole energy of the dance come to life.

we also attempted a mimic of a dance audition so Helen named it , we very quickly attempted to learn a dance routine on full gas, quickly and thoroughly, remembering details as much as possible with the aim of being one of the best at such a hasty routine and therefore being chosen to perform it as a final section of the dance, that exorcise was a great example of how our warm ups help us and lead a huge role for the rest of the lesson, warming up not only our hearts and muscles through increased heart rates but also mentally, through exorcise and routine... getting our brains into a flow of moment.

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EBI: Use time more effectively, this was not only my even better if, it also was the objective of the class, to use every second of the time we have, i often felt my concentration slowly wearing thin so had to focus even harder. next lesson i hope to remember this and stay focused even more.

WWW: Last lesson the target for myself was to try to rehearse some of these moments we learnt the that lesson , and attempt at performing them on point. i thoroughly believe i achieved this goal as i was getting regular comments that where positive from Helen, on my alignment and attention the detail. We also gave ourselves targets at the beginning of the lesson on post-it notes, these helped us remember what we nee to, for example poise , confidence and attitude.. all traits of our character who we will be reflecting from the situation they are in.

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WWW: I believe in this session we successfully blocked lots of the piece, reflecting the emotions we wanted too, bearing in mind the quote "less is more"

EBI: I still am yet to be completely flawless without the script, my goal over this weekend is to revise the script in my own time and have it successfully learnt

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WWW: I am slowly beginning to learn the scrip off by heart, im also talking into consideration the quote less is more and im portraying my character with the emotions i believe he would feel in that situation, putting myself into his shoes.
EBI: the exam date is closing in on us like the devil time is, we need to start considering staging and blocking to establish some routine and order, otherwise we just appear to stand up, and sit down a couple of times making the scene not very believable. for next lesson i hope to be able to stage some of the scene making it less awkward to watch as an audience member.

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WWW: I thoroughly was impressed with myself at the work i achieved to do when i could have been easily distracted through the fact our supply teacher didn't quite know what was going on, however I believe we used the 3 hours we had intelligently researching into our script and finding out key information.
EBI: During the lesson i did realise i forgot my script at home, although it wasn't the end of the world I should be more prepared and organised for future lessons so i do not waste fifteen minuet's trying to take photos of the one script we had.

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To my sincere disappointment on the day of the 27th our main teacher Darren was ill, we therefore didn't have as much of an informative lesson as previously hoped. However....I am a first year level 3 student so i used my initiative and thought with Kirk as to what we could do in the first hour and a half of the lesson that we had on that day.
We settled on attempting to go into deeper analysis of the script and simply rehearse it as that is the only way of learning things, taking into consideration the rules that Darren himself swears by, which is linked into the active analysis section of this padlet... However before we did rehearse we thought back to Stanislavski and thought further about objectives and reasons for the characters being where they are, we also went further and thought about the emotions that the character would be feeling during the time of that moment in order to really attempt to try to bring it to life. for example at the line "I still love you" would Phillip be infatuated, fed up, annoyed or anything else.. and why?

we then as I previously stated rehearsed through the script with these emotions in mind, occasionally leaving the classroom silent in ore of our passion for the words on the paper.

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EBI: During this lesson we learned some new routines and gestures which proved to be rather difficult, involving footwork and arm movements, my task for myself is to rehearse these movements and be more confident in performing them .

WWW: As of last lesson my EBI was to focus more, not be late and to watch over our rehearsal videos so im not as lost when i stumble into the lesson, i can happily say that i improved on this task as prior to the lesson i made sure to remember certain gestures that previously gave me difficulty, i also was on time and therefore got the most out of my lesson.

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During our lessons we have attempted many techniques during warmup and cool downs that can easily be done wrong and lead to injury is stressed in wrong positions, on the other hand if these techniques are done correctly they can aid our body alignment, flexibility and even sometimes cardio through their difficulty, for example the "balletment tendu" which is its full name is crucial in helping our bodies to stretch and warm up, (it literally means stretch) its also a key component in dance and without it it would be like a missing puzzle piece.
Now during our lesson we where tasked with developing research for the skills and moment we have looked at how they help us with the task of the "dream girls" dance.

The tendu for example.. you would learn the moment wherever you go to dance, showing the importance of structure and meaning of the moment, the moment helps us in our precision and accuracy of the moments that we do, weather it be a slide or a pose it trains our bodies to flex and stretch and be precise in whatever we do. this will aid our performance in dream girls through the execution of the moments we learn making our bodies look more conditioned and polished and therefore looking better for the audience, so much from a little stretch.

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What actually is musical theatre?

Musical theatre is a type of theatre where music is a vital component to portray the characters or story line.

These productions are famous for being in the west end and require lots of skill, time and effort in order to be able to star in these exclusive works of art. Many theatres in the west end play these musicals and you will never not see one on!
All of the following are all productions on in the west end currently.

Phantom of the opera
Company
42nd street
Dream girls
An American in Paris
Kinky Boots

Each one of these plays are like films, appealing to different audiences with different interests and age ranges... for example a younger audience may want to see the lion king instead of the phantom of the opera.

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During our lessons with Helen we have slowly been learning terminology for certain moments, any new words shall appear here! 

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During our lessons with Helen we have slowly been learning terminology for certain moments, any new words shall appear here! 

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Plie
tendu
relevee
pirouette + arm and feet positions 1st 2nd 3rd
transitions
formation

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The second part of the lesson continued after a tedious computer room session, in this section we once again didn't have any specific set task but i once again took initiative and decided to take the time ans thing some more about the characters and their own personal backgrounds.. we tried to think about everything we could using the evidence from the script to our great advantage, for example my character "phillip" is a professional photographer, something that we discover from the script... so how does this influence the way he acts and behaves, does he dress differently or act more professionally than the average person?
we noted lots down from the outfits we imagine our character to wear to the setting, once again with details in mind building a portrait in our heads from facts from the script, for example does the average person have a scotch whiskey table readily available for guests? or is this a thing somebody who is of an upper class has...

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What are dramatic conventions?
This is a question we where asked to research in our own time.
upon research i found out that dramatic conventions are a set of rules that the actor will follow in order too employ or create a specific effect or style.

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After our warm up, we were allocated pairs for our duologues assessment.
We were asked to read the duologue and make a list of the 'Given Circumstances'.
We were then given a handout called '10 Ingredients for a Successful Scene' which is what we should use to help stage the scene for this part of Skills Toolkit.

We then in pairs read our scripts (each individually) and had a discussion in our partners for the best course of action, Kirk and I decided we should read through and start to try and establish our characters, following the list that Mr Mawdesley gave us. We successfully established our characters reasons for being where they where at that moment in time and incorporated that into the planning of our scene. We then where instructed to mark down the "key moments" in our script to allow us to build a Skelton and slowly start to construct the foundations of a successful duologue.
Finally, after we had noted our key moments, we dicided to improvise around the key moments to see what would naturally happen to the characters we where playing. I tried my hardest to put myself into the characters shoes and truly try to feel how he would feel in the same exact situation in order to be able to gain an emotional and impactful ability to present the character.

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This was out task list in the lesson of 20/9/17, This shows the extent of the tasks and helped us manoeuvre around the script smoothly as it clearly points out factors we should consider like plotting key moments helping us engage in skills from Stanislavski like the objectives of a character at one specific time in the piece.

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The full piece of dance so far for future reference to remind me and to track my progress from the dates

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WWW: in our lesson today we started to look at scripts for a small piece to perform for kirk and myself. I believe that in this piece we succeed in understanding the characters rather quickly and gained an understanding of their lives allowing us to present these characters successfully. Also this information was key for a character biography
EBI: I believe that i didn't successfully use dynamics to the best of my ability, for example I believe that if I could highlight the most important and impactful moments and target them I can provide much more emotion

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EBI: I'm my group I believe that if I could improve my movement memory by applying more focus and watching our evidence videos before each lesson. Also coordination could be improved by further more rehearsal in Helens class
WWW: I thoroughly believe I successfully presented a sence of style in my character during our peice, along with dynamics that I presented while dancing.

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First we done a basic warm up bringing up our heart rates, then we moved on to a plank exercise strengthening our arms and body to enable us to do rolls and improve our general strength in more demanding forums of theatre.
The warm up allows us to wake up, and gain some energy so we are able to take part in the rest of the lesson, to help out Cardio fitness and boost our confidence as a class individually and also working in a group.
Group Work
Working in groups , practicing the dance routine to electronic music , we had to show elements of pace , arm strength and rhythm as when it comes to groups performing theri dance pieces , we will have to learn different dynamics like strong arms and soft movements .

Dance
A way to communicate with the audience through movement

Dance teaches the importance of movement and fitness in a variety of ways through a variety of disciplines

Learning to coordinate muscles
Dance has aesthetic and symbolic value

Dance allows one to express themselves.

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Dream girls is a musical with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes , The Shirelles, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago called "The Dreams", who become music superstars.

The musical follows a majority of black cast as it was a story of the troubles and hardship to try to become successful in the musical world in the 1960s, a time shrouded by negativity towards other races, songs such as "stepping to the bad side" give the audience a chance to see into their lives and how they would of had to do dodgy things to attempt to become even vaguely recognised in such a negative era.

SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Rhythm and Blues was created by Black musicians.  After World War II, southern Blacks were in search of better economic and educational opportunities.  They also wanted to escape the racial oppression and inequalities created by the Jim Crow laws.  Several southern Blacks moved to northern and western cities.  Even though the Black communities were isolated, they created a “vibrant entertainment district in every major city”.. New musical styles were introduced to white performers.  Rhythm and Blues was created as a way of Blacks to be creative and express their emotions.  They could be musicians that were just as talented as whites and they were not afraid the show it.
Also during the midst of the 60s and 70s the black power movement struck up and helped highlight talented musicians with the help of black and white people exactly the same way as jazz from new Orleans.

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we started off our dance lesson with the warm up section, following the same routine we have been doing every week involving bur pees and plank, warming up our bodies and stretching our muscles to avoid injury, we then where told to remember our previous routine from last weeks lesson in order to be able to start to work on new movements being added into the dance. we also worked on our Plie and Tendus which work on our body alignment and once again stretch our our muscles to aid in the dance. After that we then started to work on routine, giving as much energy as possible and remembering to stay in a strong neutral position. we also polished all other previous movements we had learned including the clicks and claps working on the timing, for example after we all gather to watch Indianas groups dance section we worked and rehearsed the timing of the claps so it wouldn't sound sloppy,
Another thing we did was add a another small routine into Lucia and Kirk and myself small dance break, we added another eight counts in order to allow time for the others who are stood in strong positions during the break, to get into centre stage to continue the dance routine, the next section was a completely new one. after the added eight counts we rehearsed a "dabbing" motion into a straight armed gesture. one of my targets is to learn this movement more fluidly and add more character to it in order to make the dance scene "pop" more.
We also had to rehearse travel into the group bundle i mentioned earlier, we realised we didn't add enough character into the travel as we should have, and therefore it looked plain and rushed , so we spiced it up with more energy and pzazz as should have been expected from the dream girls play.

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These two photos are the work done in the second lesson of the 27th when Darren was absent, the sheet shows bullet points and some writing that Kirk and i thought long and hard for, venturing deep into the analysis of characters
it shows ideas of costume, and reasons for that, reasons for ideas of set, and even reasons for objectives the characters are trying to achieve

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First : Warm upLeft, right , step, stretch(x4)Left,right, spin , rib stretch (x4)Lunges (x4)Skipping in circle(x4) Repeat 4 times. Oxygen reaches your muscles more efficiently this enhances muscle contraction. It can prevent muscle soreness after your dance practice or physical activity. Warm up is designed to prevent the risk of injury and also prepares the mind and body to concentrate on the task ahead. It also improves our stamina and cardio fitness. Second : Body Conditioning Burpies: jumping , dropping into a plank (x4) Mountain climbers(x4)PliéNeutral then bend and stretch(x4)First position then bend and stretch(x4)Second position then bend and stretch (x4) Body conditioning allows flexibility and stegnth to occur more efficiently , it gives us good arm strength which will allow us to work of our strong Dynamics. Third Plank and Roll across floor to four countsFourthYoga Stretching out making your back straight , then slowly working down to your toes , placing your hands on the floor then working into a lunge and swinging left from right in a lunge. This cool down enables our body to adjust to the warm up and body conditioning activity , it enables us as a group to stretch and improve flexibly and strength.