In classes when we were rehearsing, the five singers (me, Kelly, Alice, Laura-Anne and Chloe) focussed on our breathing through-out the dance as it was a hard song to sing and to do a high energetic dance at the same time! Therefore we decided as a group that the singers didn't bounce around so much whilst singing and that we just did the arm movements but with the bounce of a hip too so that we didn't look stiff. The reason we didn't have the whole group singing was so that the dancing could be done properly and full out with tons of energy, however to make this possible and less hard for the dancers, we decided that they didn't have to sing. This meant that there were different levels of energy in the performance which we made sure was clear by setting ourselves in to a formation.
On the 2nd we met at the theatre at 2:30pm for a technical and sound check run through on stage. The five singers were given professional £2000 head mic's to use which we were very excited about as this made us feel professional and lucky too but on the other hand we were scared of breaking them!
After our run through we went out for lunch as a whole group and then came back to the theatre to watch a few more of the acts which would be performing on the show too. We then remembered that we are girls and needed time to make sure our hair was big and our make-up was perfect so off to the dressing room we went.
For our outfits we all had different colour vest tops on and had white skirts on with skin coloured tights. We then began to put our stage make up on and we curled our hair and put loads of hairspray in it to help make our hair as big as possible. We all helped each other do this.
We were the 5th act to go on in the show and we were happy with this. We put loads of energy in to the performance, personally I think that it was the best performance that we've done of doing that song and from the loud breathing sounds behind me at the end I could tell that everyone was out of breathe! One of the judges was a dancer and she loved our performance and complimented us which made us all relieved, however the other two men were not so nice but we have plenty of support from each other and our teachers, family and friends which helped us keep our heads high! I enjoyed this event and as it was for a good cause I was thrilled that we could be involved!
This picture above is of us all including our teacher Miss Dolan before going on stage.
This picture is of us when we were on stage. What a happy bunch!
Well written Katie. What do you think you could have improved on given some of the feedback you received? Was there anything that the professional judges (ie, not the two that were there to play a role of Simon Cowell) said to you that you would take on board for next time?
ReplyDeleteTwo of the judges said that our timing wasn't perfect which I can understand as not every performance is going to be perfect. From this comment I would say that to have received better comments we could have practiced and focused more on our timings. The professional judge(dancer) said that our energy levels worked well as the dancers went full out and the singers just did small movements as they were singing. Another judge said that the energy levels didn't worked well therefore to avoid the audience thinking about the contrast between energy levels, when we rehearsed for the Christmas concert when we did the same song, we put me, Chloe and Kelly on stationary microphones so that we weren't in the middle of the dancing, and we did the small moves on the side of the stage with the mics.
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