The following videos are Evidence for task 2 (auditioning for dance). This task forms part of the unit 'Auditioning for Musical Theatre Assignment 1 of 7'.
Task 2: You will take part in a series of workshops with a focus on dance skills from a variety of musical theatre productions.You must:
Record your progress in each of the dance workshops using the template provided by the workshop leader.
Choose your strongest dance piece and rehearse, making use of video recordings and peer assessment to track your improvements.
Rehearse your dance and add your own performance skill/interpretation.
Perform your chosen audition piece to the group.
(The bullet points in bold above are particulary evident in the videos below).
One of the masters of Jazz dance and a pioneer in the art of the variety show was BobFosse.Fosse was a man, who fully embraced life, and his death at the relatively young age of sixty came as a shock to almost no one, in fact many were amazed at how long he lived for!
As a practitioner of dance and theatre, Fosse was known for his modern style, a style that everyone knew was his as soon as it was seen on a stage.Today his style is celebrated through the unmistakable trademark snapping fingers, tilted bowler hats, hip and shoulder rolls and backward exits. Not to forget swivelling hips and strutting, white-gloves and single-handed gestures. Fosse’s moves are fluid and languid and he himself was a walking oxymoron of what a dancer is meant to embody.
As a dance practitioner and teacher, one of the most memorable pieces of choreography for me that Fosse created was Sing, sing sing from Dancin’.Dancin' is a musical revue first produced in 1978, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography. The show is a tribute to the art of dance and Sing, sing, sing is a big band number that comes in two parts.
Enjoy part one below and see why Fosse is a true genius of the jazz genre.
As we approach the end of year 10, you need to be pulling together all your work done this year and in order to be ready and raring to go in September, you need to focus on the following work:
Make sure your blogging is up to date!
Learn your drama monologue off by heart and be ready to perform it first week back in September (Assignment 1, Task 1 'Musical Theatre).
If you see any performing arts over the summer ... BLOG IT!
Those of you that did work experience at Watford Palace Theatre, you need to have collected the yellow assignment sheet from me and make sure you have everything to hand in to me 2nd week back in September.
Extended projects 2nd draft - DUE w/c 12th September.
Remember you can email anything you want me to look at over the holidays!
Well done BTEC Performing Arts students! You have now successfully completed 2 assignments for Dance Development and 2 assignments for Costume Construction.
Don't forget the deadline for Assignment 3 Dance Development (extended project) is due when we get back from Easter!
