Monday 5th June

After a week off school (yay) we needed a little refresher, so Monday was mainly spent refreshing our memory and refining points which we had already defined. With my disgusting memory for choreography, it took a while for me to get into the flow of the movement and sequence and it was clunky to begin with, then began to pick up as we went over it. It was still a bit messy by the end, but this was partially due to the fact that most of the group had scripts (except me, just to point out ;) ) and I was clunky because I'm clumsy and struggle with choreography - as pointed out earlier in the blog.

At the end of the rehearsal, as is customary, we performed a small section of our devised script to the rest of the class. This went relatively well considering the lack of rehearsal and the use of scripts, but there were a few points of issue as well as a couple of moments pointed out in feedback from the audience (the 9-strong audience, I know, massive turn-out).

One of the points addressed the clarity and precision of our movement, picking up on the fact that it wasn't quite perfectly together. One of these moments where we needed most to improve precision was between me and Caitlin in a section devised in the 'passing of the voice' lesson where Caitlin passes a thread as where last time this had been slick and magical, this time it was sloppy and imprecise, mainly my fault I'm afraid, I was preempting it and this made my brain do a caffufly thing, and I missed the timing completely.

"Then I can relax and go to sleep" had a move where we all lift Hannah into 'lying-down' position, this was in hindsight probably a little too complicated, long and physically demanding for the length of line it was we had to do it, and this told in the performance where it was clunky, slow and ineffective, slowing the pace right down. Next time, I feel we either need to really work on getting the lift slick and smooth, or cut it and have her doing a simpler move such as lying back on the riser.

A point pointed out by the audience was that we made too much of the chicken pox line, which was short but had some elaborate movement (I thought personally thought we should have all just done a quick chicken movement but the rest of my group laughed that off the table) so either we need to cut the movement and keep the line, simplify the movement, or cut the line and movement completely, I like the latter idea as the line is unneeded and awkward as it is.

Although I love the move where Caitlin acts as my penis, (because I finally feel like a patriarch with power!) as I think it's dynamic and humorous I think it's missing a definition which would come if she let go of my neck with her hands, so we need to work out a safe way of doing the move so she's lower down, as it looks a little too high and perhaps not understandably a penis.

I think we generally need to work on the definition and synchronisation of movement which whould come when we lose scripts, and with more rehearsal.

Down below is the video of our end of lesson performance: