Thursday 4th October

As Amiee (our dance tutor) was away we started the lesson with some focus games, we played the ladder game where you find a pair sit opposite each other and put your feet against each others. when everybody does this it creates what looks like a giant flat ladder!, each pair is given a number and if it is called you have to run through the ladder and get back to your seat before your partner,if you get there first you gain a point, at the end the side with the most points wins. We also played grandmas keys and sheriff to gain focus.
After the games we did a practise workshop audition, so at the end four of us would be selected.
This started with a devising and team work exercise, in small groups we had a minute to create a human version of an object e.g a washing machine. We did a few of these and I liked this section as I came up with allot of ideas and felt like I worked well in my team. We then did a devisng exercise in groupd of three, we had 10 minutes to create a 3 minute scene which had one tense moment, one comedic moment and a pause, This is where I think I let myself down, we struggled to come up with an idea and I managed to come up the comedy and tense moment and Steven and Dan thought of the setting and character relationships, but we took so long to come up with the idea that we hadnt actually planned out the scene therefore when we were called up it was complete improvisation! this worked for a while but I was supposed to get to a point where I pushed Dan of a chair (to create the tense moment) but I never felt like the time was right at the time so I missed the moment and then our time ran out, I think I let the others down because afterwards I realised there were many opportunitys that I overlooked!. Our final exercise was an improv activity, Which consisted of two people being in the middle (of everyone in a circle) all of the time improvising a scene, at any point anyone could shout freeze and take over from one of the characters in the middle and do whatever they wished to the character and scene. I really struggled with this as I found it hard to find a situation I thought I could enter into and when I did feel ready to go somebody else would shout freeze first (I need to jump in quicker!). I knew by this point that as I didnt do very well in the last two exercises that I wouldnt of been chosen in real life or in this practise but I found it incredibly useful and I now know which areas I need to improve on.