Rock Challenge 2012

On 22nd February, my school showcased our rock challenge performance at Stevenage. We weren't competing on the night because we are Premier Team and we are competing with other Premier schools at Portsmouth in June. I have been involved with rock challenge this year in 3 different ways. The first one being that I am helping out with costumes and I designed and then made a costume for one of the fairies for Titania's dance. I also helped construct Titania's costume. Another way of being involved is that I helped choreograph the street dance routine for Oberons army and I helped the students in that dance learn and practice it. The final way of being involved is that I am also performing in the production. As I am a street dancer I am in the Oberon's army dance which is the only dance in the performance that is street style, I will also be in the last scene too when the dancers all come on stage together for the last dance.

 Here is a picture of everyone dancing together in the main hall in the morning.

As rock challenge video everyone's performance, we got a DVD of our performance so that we could see what needed to be improved and what went well, just basically what it looked like. The performing arts students and Miss Dolan went through what we thought needed to be improved so that it is ready for Portsmouth. When I saw myself dance I noticed that although I was in time, my arm at one point was at a different angle to those around me therefore when we rehearse we will be strict on angles of arms and legs so that we look in unison because as we are representing an army, everything needs to be inline in the dance. I also noticed that when I put Puck's magic fingers on behind one of the tree formations it can be seen, therefore I decided that I would put them on offstage so that nothing is untidy or gives anything away. Looking at the other dancers I noted a few things that could be improved dance wise and space wise that can be rehearsed after Easter holidays.

When I was at Stevenage it was a good atmosphere and I felt like our school had something to show when we did our rehearsal on stage because we are a Premier team and had to show the other schools why we deserve to be a Premier team. The rehearsal went great for me therefore I didn't have any nerves for the actual performance. As I have a role of being a choreographer I was helping other dancers in my dance with their confidence and moves incase they wanted to go over anything, this also reasured me that I knew what I was doing and so did my peers in my dance. When it got to the actualy performance, I started on the wrong leg therefore my arm was wrong and my confidence was brought down imediately. I picked up the rest of the dance as this only happened when we were marching forward into our formation. To ensure that this doesn't happen again I will make sure that we are all marching before the set opens for us to march forward, therefore it won't happen to me again and it will prevent it from happening to any of the other students in my dance. Thankfully you couldn't see my fault on the camera as there was smoke and fairies in front of us as we were marching forward.

As part of our b-tec course we have to construct a costume that is made well and good to perform in. As rock challenge is a big part of school (Kings Langley) our teachers thought it would be a great idea for us to make some of the costumes for the performance, which will be performed in both February and June/July. Our theme is A Midsummer Night's Dream and we have been asked to construct the costume for the fairy scene. We were all very happy when given this costume task as we can make them really pretty, girly and big so that they wil impress everyone when the fairies dance on stage.

Here is a picture of the main character from the army scene and main character from the fairy scene. Students constructed these for the show.

 Here is a picture of a group of characters, their costumes were made by students too.

I cannot wait until we get to Portsmouth, it will be so good if we manage to take on board all the improvements that we need to make and I'm sure I'll be more nervous as it will be for the real thing and when I'm nervous I tend to try harder and do better.