My monologue was called 'The divorce'
We were all given a monologue each to annotate and learn as homework as we were not allowed to rehearse it in school. My monologue was performed and filmed in the normal performing arts room. Here is the link to watch it. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yW6-zGVkg8&feature=player_embedded
You can also find it on the KLS performing arts blog.
My monologue was about a girl who has just found out that her parents are getting a divorce. When I read through the monologue and annotated it, I found that the character calls her dad 'daddy' so I thought that I should make my character a daddy's girl and then make it obvious when I'm not happy with him by raising my voice and not letting him confort me. To make my performance more believable, I imagined that my parents were stood at the front left and right of the room, that way I could make it seem like I'm talking to them. Pretending that my mum and dad have just told me they have got a divorce made me get with my emotions more so I could act more upset and angry. Therefore by the end of my performance I was throwing my chair across the room.
I felt that my drama piece went well and I enjoyed rehearsing it on my own and making it 100% mine.
If I were to improve anything it would be that I carried on my anger at the end to make it more powerful.
Sunday, 15 April 2012
All That Jazz Cabaret performance
On the 15th May we performed All that jazz from Chicago at Cabaret as part of Assignment 4. See the performance on the KLS performing arts blog! We rehearsed the dance one final time and videoed it, then videoed our thoughts on our rehearsal and what we thought we could improve on in our performance after watching it back. You will find those three videos on the KLS performing arts blog.
Rehearsal link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnNqvdp48o&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1
Evaluation on rehearsal link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xE3Tt7iBK9w#!
Performance at cabaret link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YsyC3IDKThA
When I watched the video of our performance, I saw weaknesses, strengths but as a whole I thought the performance went really well. Before the show we all agreed on costumes, make-up and hair and smiles! We thought that to be able to get into character, looking like a showgirl and smiling like one would get us into the fosse performing mood. When watching a performance based on fosse jazz style, I like to see subtle movements such as hand gestures exactly in time with each other, this makes this subtle movement look amazing, therefore I was really hoping that our subtle choreography looked amazing on stage.
I watched the video once through and thought that it looked great on stage and was successful throughout, I then watched it a second time and picked out a few things I think we could have improved on. The first one being that the positioning of arms could have been better; this is because to me, they looked too floppy at times in the dance. To improve this for our performance for the end of year show, I will make sure to note that arms need to be more controlled and in time with each other. Another thing I noticed was space awareness, the stage is small but some dancers were dancing in the curtain and I found it hard to see them and they didn't look like they had enough room, therefore next time I would make sure that all the dancers are in an appropriate space on stage where they can be seen and not have any health and safety hazards around them. I also noticed that there were a few mistakes, however the dancers that made the small mistakes carried on and didn't let it ruin their concentration or performance. I think that the sassy feel to the dance made us all nervous for the show as there were many people watching us but we knew that nerves before a show is normal and we should just get on with it and show off our fosse style.
Personally, to improve for next time I would make more effort with my arms as I thought that they could have been better for example, with the fosse walks, they could have been bigger. I wasn't very comfortable with the sassy style of dance that we were doing at first, but as I knew it was all part of the show and all the girls were doing it with me; I didn't feel self-conscious dancing.
The strengths of the performance in particular were the timings of the movements and the whole look of the performance. For example the leotards, fish net tights, hot pants and jazz shoes, these outfits were plain black but went really well with our characters and made us look like jazz dancers. Our hair was off our face and we had stage make-up on, and as we are all girls, we love putting stage make-up on so it was a good build up to the performance. Personally I think that the more I went over specific movements, the better they looked for the show, I noticed this by looking at the difference between the rehearsal video and the cabaret performance video.
Rehearsal link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnNqvdp48o&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1
Evaluation on rehearsal link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xE3Tt7iBK9w#!
Performance at cabaret link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YsyC3IDKThA
When I watched the video of our performance, I saw weaknesses, strengths but as a whole I thought the performance went really well. Before the show we all agreed on costumes, make-up and hair and smiles! We thought that to be able to get into character, looking like a showgirl and smiling like one would get us into the fosse performing mood. When watching a performance based on fosse jazz style, I like to see subtle movements such as hand gestures exactly in time with each other, this makes this subtle movement look amazing, therefore I was really hoping that our subtle choreography looked amazing on stage.
I watched the video once through and thought that it looked great on stage and was successful throughout, I then watched it a second time and picked out a few things I think we could have improved on. The first one being that the positioning of arms could have been better; this is because to me, they looked too floppy at times in the dance. To improve this for our performance for the end of year show, I will make sure to note that arms need to be more controlled and in time with each other. Another thing I noticed was space awareness, the stage is small but some dancers were dancing in the curtain and I found it hard to see them and they didn't look like they had enough room, therefore next time I would make sure that all the dancers are in an appropriate space on stage where they can be seen and not have any health and safety hazards around them. I also noticed that there were a few mistakes, however the dancers that made the small mistakes carried on and didn't let it ruin their concentration or performance. I think that the sassy feel to the dance made us all nervous for the show as there were many people watching us but we knew that nerves before a show is normal and we should just get on with it and show off our fosse style.
Personally, to improve for next time I would make more effort with my arms as I thought that they could have been better for example, with the fosse walks, they could have been bigger. I wasn't very comfortable with the sassy style of dance that we were doing at first, but as I knew it was all part of the show and all the girls were doing it with me; I didn't feel self-conscious dancing.
The strengths of the performance in particular were the timings of the movements and the whole look of the performance. For example the leotards, fish net tights, hot pants and jazz shoes, these outfits were plain black but went really well with our characters and made us look like jazz dancers. Our hair was off our face and we had stage make-up on, and as we are all girls, we love putting stage make-up on so it was a good build up to the performance. Personally I think that the more I went over specific movements, the better they looked for the show, I noticed this by looking at the difference between the rehearsal video and the cabaret performance video.
Above is us girls, after our performance at Cabaret.
We were going to sing to the song All that jazz too but we decided not to as we wanted to really focus on our fosse jazz style of dance. This meant that our dancing was better than it would have been if we sung as controlling our movements in the fosse style whilst singing is actually quite hard. I am happy that we didn't sing as I was then able to stay fully in character without worrying I may make a mistake when singing a solo line.
Overall, even though the performance wasn't perfect, it was still well perceived by the audience that were watching us and this made us more confident with our fosse dancing therefore hopefully we won't be so nervous for when we perform it in the end of year show. We haven't yet decided whether to sing in our end of year show but whether we do or not will be recorded in my final show rehearsal logs.
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