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December 2008 - July 2015 (aged 7)

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May 2005 - April 2015 (aged 10)

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August 2010 - December 2015 (aged 5)

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July 2007 - July 2017 (aged 9)

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First -

Fight song - Rachel Platten Cover by Samantha Harvey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYUgD-vgUJs
I have chosen this song to portray the battle that Alfie went through during his diagnoses.

Second -

'DIPG is rare brain cancer with no cure'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUqXkRmbCEY
I have used this as I feel that people aren't quite aware what DIPG is or what it stands for.
Third -
'DIPG Documentary'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNkplBrGs9o
I have chosen this documentary as it shows just how hard it hits home and this documentary is a woman who has lost her child to the monster 'DIPG'
Fourth -

Nathan Grisdale - Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSct5DAcdzQ
This song portrays exactly how I feel every day after loosing my brother to a cruel tumor.

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I was able to complete my solo at the gym as the studio was free and I had the time to complete the first section of the dance.

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- Headache
- Problems with eye movement.
- No balance (unable to stand without support)
- Facial Weakness
- Sudden appearance to hearing problems.
- Trouble chewing or swallowing food.
- Nausea and vomiting from swelling on the brain - fluid around the brain causing pressure on parts of the brain/brain stem.

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DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a tumour that is located directly in the middle of the brain stem. DIPG is unfortunately not curable - the survival rate is less than two percent of children ranging from six to ten survive it. The prognosis after being diagnosed is 6-9 months. There is no evidence that DIPG is caused by any environmental factor (smoking, eating unhealthily, exposure to chemicals etc).

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When attempting to rehearse in my own time - I found that the song and dance choice I had chosen was very difficult to choreograph and I had no emotion that I could relate to this piece.
I decided to change the piece completely into a piece specifically focusing on DIPG as it will hit home and a lot of emotion can be shown as it is something personal I have been through with my dearly missed brother, Alfie.

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This gave me time to feel the emotion within each piece and how I can effectively choreograph this emotion into a piece.
I found it very beneficial having today as a theory lesson to find the music and decide on a theme.

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               Week One - 17th January 2018

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               Week One - 17th January 2018

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Today was hard for me to choreograph as I am still unable to do the technique lessons and rehearsal time for solos due to me recovering from surgery. However, I hope to be dancing by next week to gain more out of this lesson. During today's session, I was able to research different music that I could possibly chose from to choreograph my Lyrical Jazz dance to.

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"Hey,
I wanted everything I never had,
Like the love that comes with light,
I wore envy and I hated that,
But I survived."

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"I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
I'm alive,
I'm alive,
I'm alive,
I'm alive."

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"I was born in a thunderstorm,
I grew up overnight,
I played alone,
I played on my own.
I survived."

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"I have made every single mistake,
That you could ever possibly make,
I took and I took and I took what you gave,
But you never noticed that I was in pain.

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- Happy at times
- In a dark place
- Hope
- Lonely
- Powerful
- In pain
- Confused

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Rather than putting actions or movements to portray the exact word the artist is singing, I have decided to find the back ground information about the song and the artist to feel the song in a different approach to what the other students might.

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She sings about a tumultuous childhood -

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She sings about a tumultuous childhood -

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"I was born in a thunderstorm,
I grew up overnight,
I played alone,
I played on my own.
I survived."
and she continuously reminds herself throughout the lyrics that she is still breathing and alive. The big build up to "I'm Alive" is incredible and I hope to produce a build up like this through choreography.
- Alive is about the survival of a human but it also recalls the dark times you may face in life.
- Sia may say the song is 'Adeles Song' but she has faced dark times too - she battled alcoholism, depression, Graves' disease and an addiction to painkillers.

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The song I have decided to do my Lyrical Jazz Piece about is Sia - Alive as I feel so much emotion for this song from just listening to it let alone performing it.
Once I decided on the song, I began my research so I could understand Sia as an artist and the song in more depth. I was shocked to find out the information that I gathered as I've never thought about looking deep into a song before.

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Aurora - Murders Song
Jessie J - Nobody's Perfect
Sia - Alive
Love Me Like You Do
Never enough