2.6.14 week of show

Today is show week, today we self directed our own individual warm up and then recapped on the jazz piece of  'fast car' I went through the business men's choreography as I don't feel secure when performing this, I feel I worry to much about the timing therefore I do not interpret any characterisation throughout the piece.
After recapping the choreography I felt that I knew the choreography it is just about perfecting the performance with characterisation therefore when adding more character into the set I felt much more relaxed and just need to perfect my character which is a ' Business man'.
Throughout this piece I need to interpret a hard straight, serious face to show the seriousness of my role, as well as interpreting when I walk on a brief case.

I then went through my group choreography ' Tsunami' we needed to sort out the timeing at the start due to the choreography not in any relation with the musicality. We recapped the Tabluexes at the start that then diverse into the choreography. We then have the rest finished we just need to now express more character, explaining each character showing emotions.

All of my group kept going over the choreography, to prefect ready for the tech rehearsals later on and during the rest of the week.

We also sat down and looked at each others costumes, giving out T-shirts that had been tie - dyed. From rehearsals I have been wearing leather leggings, but during the ending of the choreography I need to quickly and sharply move across the floor sliding. Therefore I am going to wear cotton trousers so that there is no struggle performing the movement across the floor.
Alternatively we also spoke about lighting, we decided at the start white and bright, and after blackout there is then an over speech saying ' Tsunami' this is the queue for when the lighting changes this then changes to light blue, throughout the rest of the choreography. We thought to physically have this colour to represent the Tsunami coming in, so blue was the perfect colour, as well as for the t shirts, we tie dyed them blue, so they are multi colours of blue and white, which looks effectively when dancing.

Rehearsal's down at Pelham

Today we tech'd all the dance pieces, from this we got positive and negative feedback in the Fast car section all the business men needed to work on characters a lot more, much more serious faces as well as the timeing for the ending is not in time with the music.
However for or group piece tsunami it was more on timeing for the start, due to re- altering the music, when performing this puzzled everyone as it was the first time to of actually rehearsed with the new alterations. We now need to self direct rehearsals in our own time making sure this is ready for the show, and if we feel it is working or not, therefore making the decision to stick to the old music or new edit.

Milonga needs more hip movements, using the lower body a lot more,  I feel when I practice in my clothes for this which is a skirt I feel much more in character and use my lower body a lot more, showing this by dress continuously flowing. Today was the first time practicing in my Character shoes on the stage, It was very slippery and I did not feel secure, therefore I need to practice this so I feel positive performing in these shoes for the show, due to leaving it last minute and rehearsing in Trainers for a long period.

The main concern for all of the pieces was spacial awareness due to rehearsing for a long period of time in the dance studio today seemed a big shock when performing on the stage due to having less space than before, however we all worked as a team to sort the situation out.
Today was successful day and after trying all of the clothing on I feel that the show is going to be successful.