Post Show Evaluation

Characterisation and Rehearsal Process for Bad Girls

dance targets

i wish i had retain consentration through out the  winter prefomance amrica and i reolised this so troughout susical i was focosed and on time to rehersals that braught me into the spring workshop 2 days intense dance traing learning a conteporary dance pice to dancing in the dark this was hard work but fun this taught me that costant cosantration is needed this pushed me as a dancer to learn about the small detail and built up my confiedence as a prefomer .   when corigraphing the solo i decided to do it methodicly to provay the charictor intended and i feel it worked well by using slower movements and more attenchion to small deatail . diet and helth has been a major part of unit 32 as it has requierd amazing fitnes and stamina to keep up with the cors
trough out unit 32 my targets were to push myself as a dancer and to be punctual and focused and i found through out the first part of the cors i was not acheeving these targets but i reolised this and changed my atitued towards the classes and knuckeld down

rehersal log variety

rehearsing every day for 30mins every day and 2hrs on sunday with acumplement by Henry Marshal .
with the song i have been wrighting for the variety prefomance i have pushed the boundrys of blues and have created a master pice with loads of problems ! i found when prefoming it to other audiences such as at tajereen bar in worthing that charictorisation and presintation is key if played boucy and joyfully the audience seem to conect better but if played with deep emotion it can move the audience this has made me rethink the charictoristics of the song ; by starting boncy fadeing into slow then brininging it back up to bouncy has allowed for the performance i will need a mic guitar and 2 amps over 40 whats as the venue it over 25ft ² i will need better amplification
throughout this experience i have written, rehearsed and preformed songs such as 'shoes' and 'sunshine' this has shown me how to further develop my song writing.

VARIETY song

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the song i mainly wrote around for the variaty perfomance was a blues base song and u use liriques to link to the deprestion and the cold night of a moral man from the war as it is just going to be a 12 bar basses it will create the blues feel i need without having a banjo or resonator
i will be seated so i can provay the image of how the blues players in variaty in the 1950s
cosume shirt or baggy jumper on the day depending on the audience will depend on what i will wair this would be the case verry often in variaty as moast of the prefomers would not know what side of the working class the audience would be however they would be preforming to mainly males so if you were a male prefomer it would not matter as much as if you were female obviously but as times do change i have to take into consideration that half my audience will be female so sleesy sexist jokes between songs will not be happening where as in the 1950s it would
























 

variaty acts

  variaty light easy entertainment at the time. bursque\dance seen as quite under the cusp ; smut with a hint of comical class for the working class!
considering nearly every night was a booze infested hall of banta and sexual connotation ; not a place for a lady so would be ocupied mainly by workinging class men looking for a good time after a long days work ,during the depression this was a good way to relax and have a good time.
   Performances such as ventrilaquism, acrobatics, abnormal animals, magicians and quick sketches - in Variety anything quick and eye catching goes, but if it drags you wouldn't necessarily come home clean, as the original venues you would be table seated and booze filled. If you weren't catching the audience's attention, cabbages, tomatoes and beer would be thrown far and wide aimed at the performer, not an easy game to play but played well could have been very lucrative.
   Vaideville was more of a circus theme and even had a name for themselves. Vaudevillians were like a family so with this approach instead of music hall they had more of a business atmosphere.
Examples of venues in the UK are the Pallodium Theatre, The Comedy Club, Concorde 2.
Variety Acts -
.ventriloquism
.acribatics
.burlesque dance
.comidy scetches #(first stand up artists as well as reherced scetches)
. magican
. singers
.dancers
.actors
. musical comidy
. contortionists
. what was left of the "mistralls" (white men with blacked faces (highly racist yet still fairly aceptible in that era )

all preformers with a not so easy stage , if you were not invloving the audience or entertaining them they would make there own entertainment ( who can hit the muppet on stage with a cabbage)

my choices
singer songwrighters
singers ,blues kings , folk and many more would flock to the abodes of variaty far a wide talented and just plain stupid what ever amused the audience on the night :)

musical comedy
working class male relateable music taking the micky out of bosses the war and women
(smutty banta ) many preformers such as norman wisdom

stand up
stand up has been going for years and hasent changed a huge amount but a tommy cooper in my eyes was the man of the time incorporating magic and lafter at one time WHY NOT!