Performing arts lessons

In our performing arts lessons we have completed all our audition pieces for musical theatre. We did an audition piece in dance, drama and singing.

My acting piece was a piece where I was speaking at my dads funeral, It included a lot of emotion as my dad and I's relationship was tragic, he used to abuse me, however in the speech I couldnt show to much emotion but I had to stay strong but show how much he effected my life. I researched into the background of how she must have felt, and tried to relate to her so I would be able to act better as her charecter. When making the speech I spoke about the past and what happened with my father, brother and mother. It was very effective because the character was a very strong girl of whom had a lot of emotion.

My singing piece was a duet with Kelly Rolfe, I was very nervous about this, as singing isn't my strong point. We sang 'i know him so well'. When we first got this song we didnt know it very well and weren't very confident, first we sang through the song a few times with our teacher and the word sheet, this got us into the feel of the song and helped us learn the tune and timings of the singing. Within the song we each had individual pieces to sing to show of our voices and there were some harmonies to compliment eachothers voice, this was hard to get used to at first, but got easier as we rehersed. After we had learnt the song and words we added simple movement to the song as it is a slow and emotional song. We used it as a chess game, so our movements included many directions rather thasn choreographed steps.

For my dance auditon piece I choreographed a dance based around the theme of the zebra from the dance film 'still life at the penguin cafe'. I watched the zebra dance and looked at the different moves used to make it more zebra like. As a base of my choreography I found several motiffs which I developed futher. The music I used was very tribal, this helped when choreographing as it was simular to the theme.
And as a whole group we all worked together to create a group performance to 'All That Jazz' following a fossey theme.

I have really enjoyed studying musical theatre, and I found it very different to all of the other units. I found it fun auditioning and covering all dance, drama and singing.