Singin' in the Rain

Ah!! I missed Friday!! Which kind of sucks, but at least I have Saturday to catch up. I’ll apologize now for missing yesterday’s update, but in my defence I was out partying. Anyways… back to the update.

Wednesday was a wonderfully rainy day, or maybe that was Thursday. I don’t remember now, but it was kind of cold and rainy all week, just like it’s supposed to be in September. Jazz was my first class in the morning and it was the same as last week. Then after that I had my first tutorial. A tutorial is basically a vocal lesson one on one with a Vocal Teacher. My teachers name is Gregory Cross, he’s really nice and he knows so much about singing. Unfortunately he likes to talk and our tutorial is only half an hour long. We spend almost the whole time talking, because I think he didn’t realize that I had already had singing lessons. It was still really cool and I learned a lot, but I wish that I had sung a little more.

After that was my Improv class which was very much the same as last week. Then there was Pop class and I sang my first song. I sang “Us” by Regina Spektor. I was unbelievably terrified, because I was the second last person to perform out of that whole class. On the whole I feel like I did a good job. The teacher was impressed, because the song is kind of difficult. I didn’t get the highest mark that I wanted, but I later found out that she marked everyone’s song kind of low. After Pop class we had Voice and Text. In that class we learned about positioning your body and finding the neutral position. I had heard some of the things the teacher had said before, but it was still an okay class. It was definitely not my favourite. We also all came in late because the Pop teacher doesn’t keep track of the time, so she was little angry with everyone when we first walked in there.

Then there was Thursday, which I’m actually starting to enjoy. I like Thursday because after the really long class in the morning the day goes by really quickly. We had history in the morning, which we learned a lot of really incredible things about Greek and Roman theatre. There are now a lot of cities in Greece, Italy and France that I want to see because of the theatres that are there. The second class of the day was Stagecraft. We got a tour of Sheridan’s mainstage theatre and of the Props, Costumes and Carpentry rooms. They were so amazing. Those classes do all of the backstage work for Sheridan’s productions. Some of the costumes looked incredible (but their burlesque costumes from Gypsy weren’t as good as Amber’s Mezeppa costume)

We had our second Dance Performance class of the week after that. The teacher, Robin, made it into a mock audition. We performed the routine that we learned last week, which is my favourite routine out of all the dance classes so far. Then, after an hour break, we had Music Theatre Performance. This was the class that I was supposed to perform in, but as it turned out my song was in the wrong key with the wrong accompaniment. So now I’m going on Tuesday instead. There were other amazing performances of “Johanna”, “Jimmy” and “Snoopy”, though and I learned so much from all of those songs anyways.

Friday morning starts with Ballet. We had a great class, even though the cute little old woman who’s our accompanist didn’t show up. We ended up using CD’s instead. We had a great bar and then when moved into the centre. After one question we had a class discussion for the rest of the day about competitions and how getting three firsts and two seconds is not fair. After that class we had Ear Training, which I find very easy as long as you pay attention. The unfortunate thing about the Friday class is that my teacher’s voice is kind of annoying and hard to listen to.

Computer Skills is turning into the easiest class. It’s pretty self explanatory and nothing too interesting happened so I’ll skip right to Acting Technique. We did an exercise that was an example of how many different acting techniques there are. We were all asked to perform a very short monologue one at a time. At the end of that we talked about what acting is. Gregory Peterson’s definition is “Acting is the art of communicating a universal truth” (I think, I might not have remembered it properly.) Then he proceded to tell us about many of the great actors, actresses and other artists, like Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonara Duse, Anton Chekov, Constantin Stanislavski and Uta Hagen. Those are only a few, but there were a lot of names said. I really liked that class, because Greg Peterson is such an amazing teacher. He’s so hilarious and I love listening to him. It was a really good end to a week.

After that we had our Icebreaker with the 3rd and 2nd Years, which I won’t go into now. It was all in all a great week. I had a wonderful week again. I’m a little scared because of how quick the week went by. If from now on they’re all this quick it will be Christmas in no time. I hope you all aren’t too mad at me for the late update. Love you all so much! Thanks for the support!!