On Friday 10th December the B-TEC Performing arts students put together a showcase ourselves to show friends and family what we have been learning and what we have achieved in the last 11 weeks.
Our first half of the show was all about DV8. Although, the first dance we did wasn't a DV8 dance but it was cleverly choreographed by our teacher Miss Dolan and she made up the moves to be very sharp and very powerful which we hopefully achieved to open up the show successfully. Alice, Kelly and Myriam moved straight on after the dance and used Kelly's power point presentation on DV8 to help the audience understand exactly what we have been focusing on.
It was then time to perform our own paired dances that we each choreographed ourselves, Myriam and Kelly performed theirs first, then Alice and Shannon did theirs and they were amazing. I was next to perform along with the rest of my trio - Chloe S and Ellie, and then so on with the other pairs. We used the song teardrop by massive attack because it was to highlight the mood of the dance. It had been great doing a trio with Chloe and Ellie as each rehearsal went by we were progressing towards the middle section of our dance but then we decided to re-do our dance as we weren’t happy with it as we believed we could produce a better standard of work. Our dance was based on a goal which was getting to the box, in a three we took it in turns to try and get to the box which was choreographed so that one of us would try and get to it somehow but the other two would do something to stop that person getting to it. In the second dance we kept the whole idea of two of us would stop the other person trying to get to the box and so we choreographed and worked on the dance and we worked well, but as we hadn't got as far in the dance we had hoped when it came to only have 2 and a half weeks left, we didn't panic, we used our lunch times to do extra rehearsals in the performing arts classrooms which turned out to be a huge help and got a big laugh out of it as well which was what I enjoyed so much with working with them two.
All of the pairs had performed their dances on DV8 and so it was time to perform the first group dance which involved Shannon, Danielle and myself doing the street side of the dance and Alice, Kelly and Myriam doing the ballet/contemporary side of the dance. We used the song ‘It was all in your mind’ by Wade Robson, we used this as the music was great for both style of dances and it worked well with the choreography we had made up for the story. The class decided that this group dance was going to close the show so we knew we had to come up with something for the audience to be talking about when they have their biscuits and tea. We used our different dance styles to help show bullying as Alice, Kelly and Myriam did their contemporary bit first and used powerful yet elegant moves and then me, Shannon and Danielle then did our street bit to show the differences between the two dance bits, the story progressed to show that the contemp girls tried to over-power us street dance girls and mess with our heads, we used lifts and different levels to make this clear. It was a lot of fun to do and we got a lot done in all rehearsals which was great to have done as a group.
To open the second half of the show, the other group dance performed their story with dance, the group were made up of six girls, Chloe G, Chloe S, Ellie, Shauna, Louise and Laura-Anne. Their dance was a great opening to the second half of the show.
We then had other acts performing such as Ness who performed a very moving piece of dance, Ness is an inspiration to us girls as she is clearly really into her dance and always makes her dances mean something very powerful. Ness is also a big part of Rock Challenge at Kings Langley School so we get to know her more through that which has been great.
Also there was a paired dance with Alice from B-TEC PA class and her little brother Jack, they are both great ballet and contemporary dancers and did a fantastic dance showing their amazing talents. Another paired dance was Chloe G and her friend from her dance class outside of school, they did a really great and funky disco dance and got the audience clapping and cheering all the way through. Also we got a special performance from Chloe S as she performed her majorettes solo to the song ‘One night only’ from Dreamgirls, it was so good! We were all holding our breaths as each time Chloe through the baton in the air she did a clever move and we were hoping she wasn’t going to drop it but she did fine as she caught it behind her back and under leg! An outstanding performance!
After Chloe’s performance we did our final group dance which involved all of the B-TEC PA students, it was choreographed by Miss Dolan and it was called Ramalama. It was a brilliant dance which was supposed to be powerful, weird and abstract at the same time, it was a great way to end the show and it was my favourite dance to perform.
All the money that we raised went towards the B-TEC PA class and the CRY charity which was a great success as we raised a good decent amount of money for both the B-TEC and charity for Cardiac Risk of the Young.
Overall I think that the night went very well and I enjoyed every minute of it!
No comments:
Post a Comment