It's Show Time!

On friday night we did our performance evening of 'Dance That Means Something'. It was a really sucuessful evening with 78 people in the audience. The evening was filmed by Miss Shipp and Racheal Davis and photographs were taken by Ross Hudson. We also wrote a questionaire for our audience to fill in to give us feedback on the night. This will all be used as evidenced to go into our folders. I'm am going to write up an evalution of the night which i will upload to my blog at a later date. I really enjoyed the night and I know the audience did for whom I've spoken to. We have only been doing btec  for 11 weeks so our dances were not perfect and it was only a working progess. We had to invited guests to dance to pad out the show. I invited my brother along to do some ballet but he asked me to do it with him. We performed a duet we had performed earlier in a show. We did a presentation to explain DV8. This gave the audience a much clearer understanding of the theme. I don't think they would have understood if we hadn't of done the presentation. Pictures will be uploaded soon.

Panto!

This weekend I went down to Southend for the weekend with my family. During the weekend we went to see the local pantomime. This year they were doing Peter Pan with Bradley Walsh playing Smee.

They had changed the story a bit to make in more model but it worked really well. The actors playing the main parts looked very young and inexperienced. Some of them messed up their lines and it seemed like they were taking their parts too serious. The girl who played Tinkerbell had an amazing singing voice and sung the best song through out the play. The main dancers in it were also not the best. They were very out of time and didn't seem too bothered. I really liked the flying scenes becuase they actually flew on the stage and over the audience. Bradley Walsh was really funny it in and he made the audience laugh most of the time he was on the stage. He did mess up his lines a few times but it didn't matter becuase he made a joke out of it. It was the opening show so I can understand why a few times it didn't run that smoothy.

T4 Stars 2010

On the 21st of November I and three friends went up to London to see T4 Stars. We travelled up to Earls Court in the mornng and has to join a que standing around for 2 hours. We got let into the arena at 11 o'clock but the show didn't start until 2 o'clock. There was loads to do outside if you weren't waiting in the main arena for the performances to start. You could go and visit the T4 studio and have the chance to enter a competition to become the new T4 presenter. There were modelling competitions going on and a make over bus you could go and have a make over in. There was also a celebrity disco going on where you could go get closer to the stars. We got there just as The Wanted came up. Everyone got really excited and were pushing to the front. The show in the main arena was amazing! There were loads of stars performing such as, The Saturdays, Ellie Goulding, Olly Murs, JLS, Pixie Lott, Jason Deraulo, N Dubz, Tinie Tempah, Professor Green, Example, Roll Deep, Alexandra Burke, Devlin, The Wanted, The Script and many more. The Inbetweeners, Gok Wan and Tom Dailey made appearences on the stage between performances. It was an excellent but tiring day and I would definitly go again!

My work in Costume Design

'Dance That Means Something'

At the moment we are putting together an evening of dance thats going to be held on the 10th December. In class we have been putting together dances to perform on the night. We have invited guests to perform as well. There will also be a gallery up of all our work we have been doing in costume design. This night will give us a chance to show our friends and family what we have been working on.

Me and Shannon are performing our DV8 style dance. Shannon has mixed two very differnt types of music together so make it a bit different. We still need to do a lot of work on it to perfect it. I've also invited my brother along to dance a duet with me. We will then perform all our group dances we have done. I'm looking forward to the night and hopefully friends and family will enjoy watching it.

In our costume design lessons we have been working hard putting together boards of our work and starting to make our first costumes. We are starting to make our Will We Rock You style skirts. We are using denim and tartan to create the look and decorating them with safety pins and chains to make it look more rocky. Hopfully I will get mine finished before our performance so it can be put in the gallery for everyone to see.
(I have pictures on my phone but still need to upload them.)