Rehearsals Overview (Jazz/Contemporary Technique) - 05/10/15 - 09/10/15

Rehearsals Overview:

Unlike other weeks where we have had two rehearsals (on a Tuesday and Wednesday lunch), this week we only had one rehearsal (on Wednesday lunch). This was because the year 10's had booked all the studios, so we were unable to dance. At Wednesday lunch, we all went to 1021 (Dance Studio). The three Rehearsal Directors; Grace, Amie and Chyna were there as well as the majority of dance. A few people did not turn up - either because they didn't know it was on, they were ill or they just didn't turn up. Some people did also turn up late, which over ran the rehearsal. Then we did a 10 minute warm up, which also took too much time. Although we should warm up, I personally think that it should have been for 2 minutes as we were not doing the routines full out. Then we went on to doing the routines. First of all we went over the Opening dance (Dreams). It went well and we all knew the choreography. However, the Rehearsal Directors thought that we should go over the counts and placement, as occasionally we went out of our spaces. We spent 10 minutes cleaning it up and when we did it again, it looked much better then it did before. Then we ran The Conference dance and into The Witches routine. The routine looked good, however no one was going full out and the energy in the room had deteriorated. This meant that all of our moves were sloppy and not to the best of our ability.

I feel that overall the rehearsal was a success to a certain degree as we managed to clean up one of the routines. However it was not a success in other ways. Because there was no teacher in the room, people spoke over the top of one another and took a break when they wanted to. This meant that we spent the whole lunch time in the studio, rather then 30 minutes (which was the original time we were meant to spend in there). In future, I think that we should let the Rehearsal Directors take charge and decide what we are doing, rather then individuals deciding what they want to do. I feel that when we worked together as a group; it looked amazing, but as soon as individuals spoke their opinions, the routines became sloppy.