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Feedback from the overall course of commercial

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Feedback from the overall course of commercial

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strengths
one of my strengths over the course of commercial is executing movements correctly, an example of this would be if the movement is to be placed on a diagnol line, I will make sure that aim to focus on placing my arm in the correct direction .

I also had feedback about my dynamic quality. Greg talked about the way that I am able to display dynamics and place them into the piece effectively. An example of this would be when I am performing the opening of the second piece I made sure that i showed a clear dynamic quality I did this by thinking about the way I had a sharp dynamic with my head but the approach for my arms which were more fluid movements.

I also had feedback about my performance skills. Greg talked about how he can see that through my performance I have did further research through and this is shown through my projection and focus.

As well as having positive feedback it was important that I was having feedback on my weaknesses so I can focus on these clearly and developing them into targets.

Greg talked about how I show apply the idea of thinking closely about my transitions, thinking about the way I move through the space and apply my performance skills to this element .

Another target for my was being more confident within myself, allowing myself to go full out and not worrying about the way I may look, being free within your movements in commercial is important.

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Motorsport, ginger, Bartier, Cardi, sweet sweet by travis Scott, you don't know me, warm, warm.

The music was a very big part of the piece, rather than having one song throughout Greg mixed all the music together to really show the different styles we have learnt.

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Locking Performance Showcase / Hilty & Bosch Choreography / 310XT Films / URBAN DANCE CAMP

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Learn How To House Dance | Time Step | Coflo(Circle Of Fire / Soulshifters)

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Within today's lessons we moved on to the next piece that would be placed into the overall dance. This dance had a mixture of many different styles compined into one but the main focus styles were house and groving. The accompliment to the piece was Cardi B, when learning this material I had a comment of Greg who said the my dynamic quality was very strong, I felt very comfortable performing this piece and really felt by the sharp and hard hitting dynamic quailiy I was able to perform the piece strongly. The piece was very girly and had many elements of being directly on the music.

Greg decided to place this routine within this lesson as we picked up the material strong and it was important that we was able to focus on cleaning the movements completely. I was placed within the front of this routine and now focused on my performance element within this sectition.

Strength
A strength of mine within this piece would be my dynamic quality.

Target
A target of mine will be to watch videos on house and observe other dancers, looking at what there's intention and focus is.

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As we are developing a performance based around The Grinch I felt that its important to know my research, so decided to further my research making sure that I can do the best performance possible.

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Within the past few sessions we have moved away from the idea of working on loads of phrases and dancers and decided to begin creating a dance that will show clearly what we have been focussing on as a group within commercial/urban dance.

Greg decided that he wanted this performance to be very native and show the audience a story through the movements of commercial, Due to Christmas being near by he felt that by basing the dance on The Grinch would be a excellent concept. He decided that he wanted the dance to focus closely on the style of locking, popping and grooving mixed in with the occasional whacking movement. A full impact piece that really got to show the audience what we have been focusing and developing on within these lessons. Greg also decided that he would like to make the piece a combined mixture of Contemporary as well as commercial this was very interesting as I felt I really connected with this idea and thought about the way I move through the space using my torso as a main structure throughout the dance.

Through the process as a group we have been really focussing on cleaning the piece, one particular thing as a class that we have really focused on would the musicality and the cleaning of the material finding the ways where the movements have

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Today was our first lesson of the new term for commercial/urban dance. Due to the previous performance and term I feel a lot more developed within commercial and feel that I have a lot more potential.

We began the session with a warm up focusing on house. Greg taught us potential movements that could be developed to be put into a phrase.

Within this term Greg talked about how he wanted the performance to be very professional and show grown up elements. He wanted to show a really mixed routine with elements of house, popping, whacking, locking and groving. I was very excited for this as I really get the chance to learn a mixture of all different styles. Greg wanted to make sure that the piece is very slick so he decided to start piecing together the dance from the first session rather than focusing on several different routines like last term.

We began a dance focusing on popping and house. Within the dance it was very important that we were thinking about our special awareness as we begin the piece in the centre within a cluster. The movement requires the correct intention and focus, as the piece is very musical it's important that we are all listing to the music as the popping needs to be directly on the correct beat. As well as thinking of all of the above it's important that we are thinking about our directions, for example everyone's head should be focusing the same way within the dance at the begging.

Strength
A strength within this lesson was my ability to pick up material fast and efficient.

Weakness
A weakness of this lesson for my self would be my sence of directition.

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14th December. Today was the performance of our first commercial showing. Within the tech rehearsals as a group we really focused on transferring the piece into a show environment. we focused on spacials as a group and transferring the piece into the new space. we also focussed on adding effects into the piece to develop the piece effectively for audiences viewers. for example we all made sure we were looking at the correct focus points, arms were all facing the correct direction. Working on these details really made a difference to developing and improving the piece.

Show
overall I feel that the performance went very well for myself, I applied the overall feedback of Greg and really listened to the music and performed to my best ability.

strength
I feel that a strength of mine within this performance would my performance skills and my projectiton through my body and facial performance.

Target
I feel a target for my next performance would be to focus on my transitions, thinking about the way i move into my next phrase/section.

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within the past couple of lessons, I really have seen a change in myself as a performer within Urban dance. My attitude has changed from the way I approach new dancers, phrases and warm ups. I have found myself asking regular questions to develop my understanding of the individual styles such as how my hands are suppose to be placed within whacking. I have done my own further research into the different styles involved and watched videos looking at the way the styles are betrayed and performed throughout the industry.

I have had many individual comments of Greg where he has pointed out my strengths such as my dynamic quality and performance skills, as well as strengths I have been closely focusing on my weaknesses and turning these into targets ready for next term where we will be working on our final performance within urban dance.

Targets
Have a strong sense of direction.

Build and develop on my transitional movements finding ways to move in and out of material with confidence.

Keep developing my house skills and working on really add conviction to the movement.

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Through the process of Commercial/urban dance one of the features of the styles that we have been developing is whacking.

Whacking is something that I personally feel is difficult but though the process of commercial/urban dance I really do feel that I have developed in this particular style. I have learnt the importance and the basic techniques within this.

What Is whacking ?
Whacking consists of moving the arms to the music beat, typically in a movement of the arms over and behind the shoulder. Whacking also contains other elements such as posing and footwork. Whacking puts a strong emphasis on musicality and interpretation of the music and its rhythm.

One particular dance where I focussed on whacking was a short dance that consisted of whacking throughout the material. Personally I really feel that this particular dance is one of the dancers where I found myself feeling comfortable within commercial. I was able to focus on the famine side of the performance and really add this into my work.

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House Development

Within the past for sessions as a class we have been closely working on adapting and learning phrases within the style of commercial dance. We have focused on

·       House

·       Locking

·       Popping

·       Krumping

·       Whacking

·       Grooves

·       Breaking

Through the past few lessons, I personally feel that I have really developed within my confidence within Commercial dance, I have focussed on bringing my dynamic quality and energy within the work.

One particular style that we have focused closely on would be House. Each lesson Greg our dance lecturer has really focussed on a house warm up, helping us be prepared for when house will be put in our up and coming dance pieces. The main elements of house work focus is clearly on the concentration of footwork, jacking and lofting. These are the three main elements that I am focussing on when working closely on house especially within warmup, as I know that this is the main focus point and where my movement should be coming from, to develop this I then focus clearly on the dynamics and energy within the movements as these really change the interpretation of the movement, I personally feel from watching my lecturer as an observer that when he adds energy and dynamic quality into the movement it really brings a new feel to the movement and this is really important to focus on. I have noticed that house dance shows fast and complex foot-oriented steps combined with fluid movements in the torso as well as floor work. I feel that from this comment this is something that I have begun to take on more when working on house work, due to myself being very used to working on this particular body part within contemporary I am able to bring my learning of this technique into my commercial lessons.

As well as learning warmups within house, we have also worked on creating short phrases/dancers that will be brought into our up and coming show within December. For now Greg is giving us as much dance phrase as possible to let us really have a feel on what commercial dance offers. I really do feel that within these lessons the phrases I am learning and developing on really are industry reflective and I feel from the early stages of the lessons I really am becoming a lot more confident overall.

Within house work I have noticed clearly that the major source is directly from the music.  There is a clear emphasis on the subtle rhythms and riffs of the music and the footwork clearly follows this. I have also noticed the importance of the individual performing the phrases as it’s very important to focus clearly on the origin, characteristics and ethnicities.

Strength

One personal strength I feel that I have developed on within commercial dance would be my ability to bring my own intention and charteristics into the work, understanding the intention behind the music and really aiming to perform the work.

Weakness

One weakness I feel that I can develop on within commercial dance would be my sense of direction. Sometimes I do feel that as house is so fast and complex with quick footwork I sometimes position myself wrong.

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Commercial/ Urban Dance
Within today's session Greg wanted to spent a lot of the lesson focusing and developing on ( group dance ). As this dance was going to be a big group number it's very important that we can really focus on making this a strong overall piece. Greg informat us that today he will also be adding a new section within the dance that will require partner work.

When going through the previous movement that has been created for this piece I really thought about my dynamic quality and the timing as this will really help me look strong and have the right intention within the dance. Greg spent a lot of the time really perfecting the timing as this dance is very musical and it's important that our movements are linked with the correct beats, an example of this would be the unison section performed by us all is choreographed through the lyrics of the song so being musicaly aware and counting is very important within this section.

Today I really thought about my focus and intention within the dance, I did this for many reasons as when I really thought about my focus it linked towards direction and body awareness, within the dance there are many parts where my focus is projecting within a different positron to what my body may be in so it's really important that I can think abiut this and understand what position I should be in.

We then moved onto creating the new partner section, I was partener two and the movements flowed between us both, within the duet there was also parts of contact. I felt this looked really effective as we have not used a device like this yet within any of our recent pieces. The duet required us to really think and concentrate on our spacials as we were very close to our partners, I thought about the different ways I could really use my kinosphere without bumping my partner, myself and Cerys worked on observing one another and seeing the way we use our kinosphere and dynamic this rhwnngive us a understand of the positioning correctly.

I feel that within today's session I really did learn a lot, I really enjoyed the working process and the way Greg worked on really creating a strong duet and cleaning.

Strength
I feel that a strength of mine within today's session would be my focus and body awareness. Today I really looked into the way I was using my body carefully anazling it from my posture to spacial and I do really believe that from doing this I was able to pick out my weaknesses and develop on them.

Weakness
I feel that a weakness of mine within today's session would be my dynamics within the duet section, I feel that I have really worked on my timing and spacials but I now really need to look into my dynamics and putting all this together.

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Commercial / Urban Dance
We began today's session going straight into recapping the big ensemble dance warm water banks. Last week more movement was created and Greg added partner work. So it was very important that we was focusing on this ready to do a full run through and work on creating and adding more Dance movement. We spent a lot of the lesson going through this and working on fully cleaning the movements. As the routine is one of the main numbers we have focused on I do feel as though this piece is becoming a strong piece within us all. The routine is very musical and a example of this would be we enter the dance with 4 walks and have to reach our right spacing on 5 and be bend over. I feel this is something that as a group we have really worked and developed on. The music begins straight away and this is when we enter the space so it's very important we are all engaged and ready to walk on straight away. When we first learnt this dance this is something that as a group we seemed to not be able to master and spend a lot of the time on the music. I feel that this in it's self does really show how myself and my fellow peers are improving as we are now learning several different dancers and being able to do run through of old dancers as before we would spend half a lesson on timing and directions.

We then moved onto learning a new dance, 'Greg announced how this dance will be a new style into commercial/ urban. We will be focusing on wacking and a more girly/ sassy style towards the dance. I was very excited to learn this dance and felt intrigued to learn wacking. The dance required a lot of flare and energy and confidence. The begging of the dance requires several different poses. It's important that when going into the new poses that each pose was strong and confident as this is the opening section to the dance. The accomplishment to the dance is Mk 17. Again this piece is very musical but this time within a different way, as our previous dance it's important that we are there on time this dance requires you to be on the beat as it has a string and sharp dynamic through out. I feel that this dance would be my most strongest one yet as I felt I could really connected with the piece, I felt a lot more confident as sometimes I feel that I can look out of place but as it was very sassy and girly I felt o could really flare it up. I need to concentrate on really hitting the beats through the wacking but this will also be something that will come over time and practice.

We then separated into groups and had the chance to watch our peers. I found it really interesting to see the different approach people used. To me I feel you can all most make this dance become your own as the poses are based on your prospective and if you want to make it very girly or go down a sharper route then this is a option. From observing our peers we got to learn for ourself and I felt by into groups this really made us thing about our interpretive skills as we had a audience to perform to.

Strength
I feel that a strength of mine within today's session would be my ability to develop within my confidence through the different styles of commercial. I feel as though I'm now begging to show more confidence and allow myself to stepforward  and really work on my flare and confidence through the movements.

Weakness
I feel that a weakness of mine within today's session would be developing myself by now really pushing myself within the class, as I am now becoming more confident and working on developing its now important that I begin to start creating targets for myself and pushing myself through critically commenting on targets, I can then develop on points such as dynamics, levels and directions.

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Commercial/ Urban Dance
Recently we have been working and creating several different pieces, helping us learn and adapt to the several styles there are towards commercial/ hip hop dance. At first I felt that it was very difficult to learn and adapt to commercial dance as this is something I have not done before but now I really feel that I am begging to see a difference within my work. One of my targets I have constantly worked on was my attitude, flare and confidence now I am begging to feel more confident I'm starting to show energy and really push through the movements.

Today we began with learning a new short phrase this phrase required a lot of energy and attitude, this phrase had a different type of perspective to the other dancers we have learnt so far it was very sharp and required more of power through the movements, Greg also observed the importance of flowing through the moves for example it's important that we really think about the way we fill the gaps and move through them. As it's becoming to the end of the term I am begging to feel more confident with trying each style of commercial and having a understanding that some I may not be as strong at but as long as I show potential and effort I can work on developing this. This dance also requires musicality and being able to hit the right note with the right movement this is also where the sharpness comes through and why in this phrase it's important that we do not lose the energy and filling the gaps throughout.

We then moved on to recapping the previous dancers that we have learnt, carefully going through the timing and making sure the movement was crisp and clear. We spent a lot of the time recapping the  dance which is very group placed, it's important that we really focus on making this phrase look very clean and spending some extra time on this dance as this is the dance which requires all of us, meaning we have to really work on making this peace look the strongest as it's the group piece. Not on,y for this reason but we also have several different sections within this piece, this inlcudes canon, unison, partner work and several different dynamics going on within different sections. Each week we spent individual time on building this dance and creating way to make it become more clean and strong. In today's session we spent a lot of the time cleaning the timing and the directions. Directions and timing is something that is very important within this Dance due to it being a group dance it's important that we all understand the way we are to be looking e.g within the middle when the rest of the group walk through we are required to make a diagnole line within this time it's important that we go to the right direction and get there within the correct timing.

We then moved on to the phase that we had learnt within last weeks session, this phrase seems to be one of my favourites as I feel that it is very girly and I have the right quilting and energy within it, the phrase requires wacking and having the right attitude and flare is very important as this is what makes the dance look stronger, I like to observe Lewis, Ashley and Hannahmeg as I feel that I can really learn from my peers. I spend a lot of my time discussing with these and asking them question to help me improve my performance and feel from there help they have really helped me develop and build my confidence.

A strength of mine within today's lesson was focusing and engaging with other peers in my class. I discussed with my peers what feedback they could give me and what I needed to do. Ashley pointed out that I have the corrected attitude and flare and that she can see that I am really working on this dance. As a improvement she talked about my feet positioning and how from changing the way I stand can change my positioning this was really helpeful as I felt I was able to move more easily.

I feel that a weakness of mine within today's session would be when I tend to learn new styles if I don't feel comfortable doing it I begin to push myself towards the back, from now on I want to understand that it's okay to not be 100 percent confident with the movement but as long as I am focusing on this and really working my body and listing to the music I have the potential to develop.

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Commercial /Urban Dance
Today was our second commercial lesson, Due to having a taster of commercial dance from last weeks session I felt a lot more prepared within in todays lesson and felt as though I could be in the correct head set to focus on improving within this module.

we began with a warm up focusing on exploring various movements of the foundations within commercial, focusing on warming our bodies up. especialy concentrating on specific head movements and the torso it was very imporatant that our bodies
were warmed up in these specific area as you use a lot of these body movemnts within the routines, I felt as though this week I could explore my body movements more as I had a lot more of a understanding on what I was working on to achieve.

After being warmed up we then recapped the movement we had learnt within the previous lesson, I found that I struggled with recapping this, I realised a main reason for this maybe as I was nervous last week and seemed to hold my self back, the movemnt seemed to not stick as it could of if I had really worked my body. I would of found it easy to recap as it would of become memory movement. This dance contained various different dynamics from sharp and smooth also including very different tempos throughout, meaning you have to concentrate on the timing by hitting the correct beats. The song to this dance was You dont know me- Jac Jones Dre Skull remix. We also recapped a routine from last week that had a very different approach to the first dance. Greg discussed how he felt as though this routine was more linked to contemporary as the movemnt required more slow and gently movement, I felt as though I could feel my body within the movement and understand the interpration of the style, This routine also required sharp movements at the begging of the piece which was linked to words of the song meaning the musicality of this piece was also very imporatnt. The piece was influnced by a piece that Greg shared with the class, one thing I practiculare noticed within this dance was the interpartion and focus within the dancers, I took on this for myself within Gregs intake and concentraded on having the correct intention and focus. The song to this piece is called warm water banks and again the musci like the style of the dance has a very different approach.

For the final part of the lesson we then moved on to a new routine, The routine was very sharp dynamic based and having the correct timing and musicality was crucial within this routine for the main reason the dance was uison based and required several different levels, so if you was to miss the correct beat you would be in a different position. The ecomplishment to this dance was Sweet sweet by Travis Scott.

A strength off mine within this lesson was my ability to be more focussed, I understood that if i was to try my best then the movemnt would adapt on my body helping me be able to pick up the movemnt easier and to begin working on the style not just remembering.

I feel that a weaknesses of mine would be not fully understanding the movements yet, as I'm not as confident with them as I want to be, I now need to focus on developing the flare and attitude within the movement and I will then become a lot more confident.

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Commercial / Urban Dance
Today was the begging of a new pathway for myself and Dance at NPTC, this year we were fortunate enough to be offered commercial/ urban dance as one of our modules. Commercial dance is one of the most leading and popular styles within dance at the moment. Having this opportunity offers us to grow and expand as a dancer.

I had many different mixed emotions on this being my first lesson in commercial dance, I knew that this module was going to be something I will tend to struggle at but I know that I will develop and grow especially with the help of our amazing commercial teacher Greg.

In today's session we began with going straight into movement getting us pumped and prepared for the following phrases and routines we will be learning, I have never done commercial before so I felt very nervous but tried to stay focus and work on the warm up. The warm up required a lot of stamina and strength, a very different approach to a jazz and contemporary warm up, focusing on getting warm and into the rhythm and music.

We then moved onto learning phrases which then got put together as a dance, the routine was very unison base and required to be very musicality and have a special flow about the movement. We broke down sections of the dance and worked on hitting the correct beats. Although I felt I didn't have the correct technique as yet with it being my first lesson I felt I  tried my best on letting go which Greg reminded us a lot through the material. .

I found within this lesson my approach was very different. I almost found myself observing many people within the room, to me this really helped me as I got to understand that not everyone looked the same, but with having the correct interpretive skill it can really make a difference when performing a commercial piece.

A target of mine will be to keep going and just understanding that it's okay to not be perfect this is what the studio is for learning and adapting as a dancer, I will look into several different commercial and urban pieces to really get a feel and understanding of the work.