16th october

Today I lead the warm- up I felt confident on this and was pleased with the outcome. I got assesed by Sammi, and hopefully would of got positive feedback from this.

Today in Rosarios class I explored movement skills, this was based on the floor, we each had a matt and would interpret movement demonstrated by rosario. I really enjoyed this and gained into the activity well. I felt that this exercise was very relaxing, even though I was still stretching.

We then went over the Maculele dance, today we was going to finish the piece, and start engaging in technique and stamina for this routine, as this is a must due to not learning this dance style before.
I felt confident and like the Maculele dance, as it is a new style and I want to interpret this ready for further education in dance.

Strengths; I remembered the choreography from last week, due to this I was confident to move on to learn the last bit of choreography ready for the show. Rosario taught me the last piece of the dance and therefore the structure for this was different that what you would normally follow.
At the start we started learning the middle section, then the end and then we learnt the start. I learnt different teachers, teach differently, depending on the circumstances like time, ability.

Once performing the Maculele dance, we then interpreted the sticks that we will be using in the show, this felt much more natural using these, due to previous rehearsals we had to perform all the arm movements even though we did not physically have the sticks. After half of the lesson we then got seperated into different groups, this was to start are solo's, as we had been given the assingment now and only have a matter of week to choreograph.

I was in the first group so I had just over 30 minutes to start looking up songs and start choreographing, therefore that was not enough time, so I need to choreograph in my own time.
Weakness; By not drawing up a guidence for my solo, I struggled to start my piece as I did not know were to start, yet I did not want to waste any time, so I looked / researched into songs that I like and can choreograph to.

Todays lesson was useful, and I have a full understanding of what I need to do for my Solo, as well as rehearsing the Maculele dance because this has now been finished.