Rofiat Ajisegiri LSC performing Arts 16/17

for our dance lessons we have been practising a new dance choreography about a play called urinetown, this was choreographed by our dance teacher Albertos  ;

for the next lesson we came into class with three songs we had listened too and chosen to sing for the jazz night, then we listened to all of them and attempted singing them, we also had to altered some parts of the song to our ability.  i chose;  Cry me a river - Diana Krall  At last - Etta James If i can't have you - Etta James i chose these songs because i felt like they were different to the type of songs i would normally chose to sing, also its challenging to sing. then we had to go home as homework learn the song and bring a printed copy of the lyrics back to class ready to be practised in lesson.

 For the next two lessons we came back and we all had to tell the stories from the assignment given and then we wrote a letter to the person that was involved in our story and we were told to tell them how we felt on that day and what we wished we could have said. After writing the letter we had to read it to the whole class.  the purpose of that lesson was to help us whilst acting, especially when we have to act scared or sad, we were told to think of a time that we felt like that. e.g. when we have to act sad , we need to think of a time we felt sad and a time that makes us feel sad . this helps us whilst acting because we will look sad and more natural because we were thinking of a time we felt sad so it wouldn't be /look exaggerated.

For the second lesson we were introduced to Konstantin Stanislavski and his techniques Naturalism and Stanislavski Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian stage actor and director, he  believed in naturalistic performances that were as realistic as possible, and he developed the naturalistic performance technique known as the "Stanislavsky method". Emotion Memory; requires that an actor think of an event from the past in order to regenerate the feelings they experienced at that time. These feelings that have been regenerated are then used in the current acting for example ; As an assignment we were told to think of a time we felt really upset , frightened or angry. And to come back and describe what happened and also where we were,we had to describe the feel, the surrounding , the sound, the time of day etc. We had to give as much detail as possible. this is linked to emotion memory because it will help us explore having to regenerate emotions in order to used them wh...

For the first lesson we did a couple of warm up exercises and ice brakers to get to know each other, then we did a couple of characterisation excersies which helped us learn how to characterise. we did a master and servant exercise which helped us understand the difference between having power and not having power. this also helped us understand how the characters were feeling. From that lesson I was able to see the difference between how much energy you had to include in the way you act as being the servant because you had to obey every order made by the master. it would be even better if I gave feedbacks to what others did.

Todays lesson we did the same warm up routine we normally do then we had to sing three different songs as well in order to help us practise holding to our lines whilst singing different parts of a song as an ensemble.  we then all learnt 'our love is here to stay' together as a group , then we all had to sing it as a solo . I wasn't able to sing the first part properly at first because I didn't practise it enough because I  kept stopping when I made a mistake, however when I heard others sing their parts I listened to it and practised sing it , then I was able to get it right. As home work we had to go listen and learn three other jazz songs in order to perform it at the Tuesday night jazz club which will start next week.

we did the same warm up we normally do , then we received a new song to learn. this was a totally different type of song because it was jazz and it is called 'they cant take that away from me' then we had to learn the song which we sang over and over again. we then received another song which we had to go home and learn the melody and that song was called 'our love is here to stay'.