Today we had to come in for extra rehearsals and Rachel started on my cast and Act 1. She picked out a few scenes that needed looking at. She wanted to see the scene where mine and Megan's characters get introduced and then meet Galieo and Scaramocuhe. This is probably the first time I've properly run this scene with Megan and with all the staging up. We both stuck with the old blocking and just worked around it with the staging. We also have a song in this scene, where we sing I Want It All. We have sung the song together a few times so it went okay. I think it was probably the best I've ever sung it and the best me and Megan have worked well together. I felt like my projection was good and my confident levels have risen so much, since the first time I ever sung it in front of the class. Rachel afterwards gave me and Megan some feedback and said that she was really pleased with the performance an she thought it was really good. She said it was the best I've both seen you do it. She said once you done it once you will be fine when you did it again next. Also a few people in the class gave me and Megan a lot of praise for it, so it really built my confidence a lot more and I know ill be fine doing it again.
We carried on doing Scene 8, where we later meet Galieo and Scaramouche for the first time. Again I've never practised this scene with Dylan and Mel(who play Galieo and Scaramouche) as I have recently changed casts. But again with the blocking we all sort of did our own thing and see what worked. It worked quite well I think as we interacted well within the scene. Rachel suggested a few extra things towards the blocking which again worked really well.
Scene 10 is only a song, which is 'Headlong' and unfortunately Rachel cannot find the backing track for the full song. So we only have the reprise version. As their are 4 of us in this song we blocked out a car shape, like we are in a car. Megan was at the front with the stirring wheel and I was in the passenger seat and Dylan and Mel were in the back. Rachel told Megan to do some random movements to make it look like we were in a car and told all of us to follow her. I thought this was a really good idea and worked really well, because it was simple movements and it was really easy to do that and copy Megan. I suggested to Megan that to make it a bit better instead of just bobbing left to right, also move all the way round clockwise at the same time. And just bob up and down on the spot and wave our arms around to make it look more realistic. Again we tried this a few times and it worked it really well.
Today we also had to show our final dance to Sam. Mine is a street dance duet with Emily. We practised it over and over again just before we did it to make sure it was fresh in our memories and made sure we definitely remembered it all. When we did it in front of Sam we asked if we could practise it first without Sam recording us. Also Emily doesn't really like people watching her, so she asked if everyone could go out the studio. After we did it Sam gave us a little feedback. She said that I was really good and that I was born to street dance and she said that its definitely a distinction, which I was really happy about. She said to Emily what the difference was between me and her and it was that she doesn't seem very enthusiastic when doing the dance and not making the movements sharp. So we went away into the other room and I said ill go over it with Emily again to make sure she feels confident and seems more enthusiastic about it, before we got recorded.
After Sam recorded us, we felt much more better after we did in, than the two practice ones we did before hand. I felt it went really well, because I remembered all of the movements and felt really confident about doing it. I slightly worried about the chair duet bit, but that also went well and I did all of the right little moves. I felt that my movements were sharp when they needed to be and smooth when they needed to be. I think I could of improved on the slide I had to do when I got out of the chair duet, as I put my hands on the floor first and slided, as my knee hurt. But I could of maybe practised it without putting my hands on the floor first. Overall I feel very confident and happy with my performance.
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