Rehearsals 29/1/15

Today, we took photos for the backdrop during our dances. We then cleaned Glam, making the movements sharper to have more of an impact and going over the counts. We did the same thing for Refugee, and Park. As performers we thought about the intenstion behind our dancing, so the audience leave thinking about the show. 

Plan of Action: dress rehearsal on monday, so all costumes and props are needed.

Rehearsals 26/1/15

Today we ran the whole show twice, after the first time run I needed to change my exists, and place my costumes in different places, as they were on the other side of the stage.

Notes

* I am no longer in my brown costume for refugee but in my family costume

* I need to change my shorts

* I need to sew the necklace on to the pink top so it doesn't hit me while im dancing

* I need to get a black roll neck for the escape

* On Thursday I am having my photo taken for the background, so I need to bring in the family costume

On Thursday and Monday we are going to clean the routines.  

Rehearsals 22/1/15

Today we finished the escape, which was the last routine we had to choreograph for Torn, so all our routines are finished now. Then we ran the whole show, and had a production meeting to talk about costumes, and props. 

Plan of action: Dress rehearsal Monday, clean on thursday. 

Notes from show run 22/1/15

* Black strappy leotard and shorts for under costumes for girls

* Dress rehearsal on Monday

* Plain black pumps

* Park I need a book, and a summer dress

* My syrain outfit is at school, and is a blue skirt and green top

* Family is bare feet

* Girly girls pink top

* Glam in summer dress into girly girls

* Packing is dressed in family clothes

* Rave disco pants colured top

* Escape is disco pants and black top

* Shoes off for escape

* Jeans and a bright top for finale 

* My toy for the finale 

* Need to sort out refugee clothes, layering and brown/beige clothes

Monday Rehearsal 19/1/15

Today we started the 'Escape' routine, so the family group and the sofa group both learnt two motifs in the first lesson. These were both contemporary, the first motif you had to be well grounded and dynamic. The second one was a travelling motif, which included running and you had to use your whole kinesphere. 

In the second half, we structured the routine. The rest of the dancers do slow motion while we are dancing. Next lesson we will clean the routine and run the whole show. 

Thursday Rehearsal 15/1/15

Today was our last lesson with Robia, and we cleaned the whole routine. First we worked on the dynamics in our small groups. Then, we worked our way through the whole dance cleaning and running it. So we went over the timings of when people enter the club, and worked on the slow motion section. Next lesson or in the rehearsal we need to run all the routines.

Monday Rehearsal 13/1/15

On Monday the 12th of January, we had a guest choreographer like we did on Thursday, and she continued to structure our piece. She structured it so we are all walking into the nightclub in our groups which leads into  the group phrases. To make the piece more interesting Hannah gets vomit on her dress, and there is a small fight section.
Next lesson we need to add more highlights to the piece, as well as moments where we are all doing the same movement.

Makeup Guides

Makeup Facecharts

Guest Choreographer

On Thursdays the 8th of January, we had a guest choreographer come and teach us our "Rave" piece. She started off by teaching us a phrase which we had to be Strong as every movement was on the beat.

In the second half of the lesson she divided us into groups of people you would get at a rave for example the:

• Girly Girls
• Drunk People
• Show offs
• On the wall people

I was in the "Girly Girls" group with Tash, Lucy, Hannah and Erin. Here is a phrase which we made up, it still needs cleaning but we will do that in Monday's lesson.