Technical Training

Week 1:Classical ballet Technique

In Today's lesson we began at the barre repeating what we done at the beginning of last year this consisted of :

• plies
• tendu
• glisse
• rond a jambre
• developpe
• battement jete

During the second half of the lesson the class had split and we could choose whether we wanted to go in the experienced or in the inexperienced group. Although I was experienced to a certain extent I decided to go to the inexperienced group this a gave me another chance to go over what was done last year and feel comfortable with it.

Week 1- Singing

Today we began the session by doing a few vocal warm ups. We then began learnt a song sung by Aretha Franklin called Natural woman. We began by singing it through a couple of times first note bashing and then singing it as a chorus. Shortly after we took it in turns by singing each line as we went round in a semi-Circle. I particularly enjoyed learning this song as it help me focus on breathing and when I had to breathe.

Week 1:Project support 

Today we delivered our audition pieces . We started off with a basic ballet audition which was lead by Mandy which was followed by our individual auditions. As a musical theatre student I was asked to prepare two contrasting monologues and two contrasting songs. The songs that I prepared were from two musicals one named “fly fly away “ from Catch me if you can, and “look what happened  to Mabel” from Mack and Mabel . The reasons why I chose these particular songs was because I felt like they fit my vocal range and is a good audition piece that will show my vocal  skills . The monologues that I had presented were “The raven himself is hoarse” from Macbeth and a monologue from  “ protective shield . I felt as these two monologues were a good contrast as the both had Different stories behind them.

week beginning 7th Jan

In Jazz we are working on a dance from the Adams Family with the first years . Over the weeks in learning the dance we worked on characterisation. We are performing the dance on march the 14^th .

Here are videos below of what we have done so far. I found learning this dance enjoyable to learn and I didn't struggle as much learning the routine. One target that I have for next lesson is to learn all my lines well enough.

In jazz we also learnt a routine to Flueur East -favourite thing as an exercise

I really enjoyed learning this and found the routine rather easy to grasp .