On the 17th of March myself, my performing arts class and the actors went on a trip to IPSWITCH to perform our Greek Theatre, Music/Dance Collaboration piece, and Musical theatre piece.
Greek Theatre Piece: I felt that this piece was really confusing to do as we hadn't rehearsed it in a while so I forgot some of the movements and I personally didn't feel comfortable at all to perform it in front of the Ipswich students. What I found that was most hard was adapting to the stage as it was much more smaller to our college. It was more harder to move about in and we didn't have much time to rehearse the piece as the students where waiting. I felt that the very first performance of the Greek Theatre piece back in my college was much better. I remember making more mistakes in the most recent one we done and know that it could have been better if we actually had more time to rehearse and sort out the spacing.
Music/Dance Collaboration: I was more confident performing this rather than the Greek Theatre performance because this was made more recently and we rehearsed this quite a lot. I felt that I could have been more confident, but it was the spacing that made me slightly panic because there was no backstage bit to run off and on of which made the dance in my eyes look more messy because that wasn't how we rehearsed it. Because there was a lot of people on stage, it looked really cramped because the theatre back at my college is more wide. I thought it was weird performing it live with the music video version in the background because it was confusing me a lot, especially the first performance of it back at college. I got distracted sometimes but I learnt my lesson then and was able to have a performance face on and take myself more seriously.
Musical Theatre Piece: This was probably one of my favourite performances to do. From the very first time when we started this assessment piece, myself and my group found it really hard to choose a song to work on and so we wasted quite a lot of time on that. We had one week left till the actual first performance of it which was back at college and we still didn't know what to do and so there was a lot of disagreements. I finally came up with an idea that we all finally agreed on and we started to stay behind to get this straight and ready for the performance day. We chose to sing Billionaire by Bruno Mars and set it in the 1970's so we was all hipsters and there was a little acting piece in the beginning. We was all feeling happy and confident and after performing it at college, we couldn't wait to perform it at ipswitch. We got such good feed back from the college students and they said how they really liked it. Me, Panashe and Tashan was all confident on stage and our voices where projected so the audience could hear us. The only thing that was annoying was that we didn't have enough time to change our costumes into our hippy clothes.
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