24/11/16 Lesson Analysis and Durrington Evaluation

On 24/11/16 we dedicated our rehearsal time to rehearse and tidy our performance before we perform at Durrington. In preparation for this we learnt the dance to 'Radio GaGa' which is the final song we sing in the performance at durrington, and we felt that if we make it high energy with a dance it'll look more appealing to the audience, and they are more likely to remember the last song.

We were able to use focus and managed to learn the dance in a short amount of time, which was useful because it meant that we would have the rest of the rehearsal to work on songs and tidying up the rehearsal. I feel that when we sang the songs through with the piano, we seemed to loose focus and this caused a lot of stress between the cast, and this put a strain on getting the songs tidied. To overcome this we decided to focus and understand each other in terms of what we needed to get done and the short amount of time we had to do it, and this helped because we were soon able to carry on with the singing.

I feel that the performance went well as we were all focusing to make sure that we gave an interesting and well rehearsed performance, and we worked effectively with each other by communicating with each other to ensure everyone is comfortable in their characters and what they are doing.

I feel that one thing we could have improved on was in Radio GaGa, I feel that we were out of time with each other and the music. I think that it is easy in a performance to want to do your best but this creates competition with each other and being competitive means getting louder and trying to stand out, however in an ensemble it is important to make sure that everyone is on the same level of energy to ensure that the performance looks both tidy, and effective to the audience. We were soon able to realise this and we started working together to make sure that we were all listening to each other and making sure we had the same energy levels so instead of individual performers, we were one group. I feel that ensemble skills are particularly important in Radio GaGa because the characters we are trying to portray in our version of this song is that the GaGa kids are almost Robots because of the fact that they are practically brain washed to think, move and talk the same, therefore we all had to be on the same level of energy in our movements, levels of volume in the song, and timing with each other, otherwise the performance would have looked messy and it wouldn't be appealing to the audience, however I feel that we were able to work together to solve the issue almost instantly.

Overall I feel that today has allowed me to improve my ensemble skills further by coming to the realisation of how I can contribute to an ensemble performance as well as everyone else, by giving certain levels of energy and generally supporting everyone to ensure that everyone is confident in what they are doing.