Woah… Those weeks flew by. Unless you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been crazy busy with the end of the year coming up, but I made it. Classes are over and Assessment weeks have officially begun. Sorry about the lapse for 3 weeks, but I’ve been running around like a crazy person. It’s strange that my classes are “over”. It feels like I was going 300 mph and now I’ve come down to a measly 40mph. Considering that you guys have missed so much, let me fill you in with the important things that have happened.
I did my second MVP song, which was “Vanilla Ice Cream”. For those of you who don’t know, the song is from a musical called “She Loves Me” which basically has the same plot as that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie called “You’ve Got Mail”. It’s really sweet song, which has its funny little moments. While performing it felt a lot more confident in what I was doing. At the end, the teacher and my classmates told me how much I’d improved. We worked on it for a little while, but unfortunately I think that’s the only time I get to perform it, because there’s no time to do a third song until my assessments. I’ve decided that I want to do “If I Were a Bell” from “Guys and Dolls” for my third song and I’m really excited about that.
Another thing that you missed was both of my performances of my acting tech monologue. The first time that I went up I was super super nervous. I didn’t have to be off book, but I still wasn’t sure about how I would do in the performance. Apparently my nerves visible, because my biggest correction was don’t play the victim, which didn’t surprise me. This it the first monologue I’ve done where my character is getting angry. She’s literally telling her sons off and I need to reflect that attitude more. I think that my confidence greatly improved my second time through, although I forgot a few of my words. I’m now losing marks for exhaling while I speak, which is a habit I was unaware of until now.
Now, on to Assessments, the first two days have gone by and I feel like my body is going to fall apart. Yesterday I started with my Dance Tech assessments, which consists of Ballet, Jazz and Tap. I feel like I did a good job on my Ballet; I was very confident the whole time. Jazz was a little more difficult, but I came out smiling and tried my best. Tap was almost a breeze compared to Jazz and all I did was have fun and try to stay relaxed. Later when she asked us our one on one question I did get mine right and I feel like I have learned so much.
Today I started with my vocal tech scales. The first couple were fine, but the last scale is a chromatic one and I think that I landed on a wrong note. But Marie seemed really nice and I think that I did well on the other ones, so I shouldn’t be worried.
After that was our Dance Performance assessment, which was scary but so much fun. We started with our waltz and I didn’t mess up the footing the whole time. In the second round my partner did mess up on the feet a bit, but we kept going and all was forgiven. Then we did our Razzle Dazzle dance, which is a solo Fosse routine and my favourite out of all the dances we learned in the class. I tried to keep everything sharp and the last time that I did it I really felt super confident. Our final dance was our partner Disco routine, which I was unsure of how it went, but I had a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I might have put out my hip a little bit, but I don’t have any dance classes for two weeks so I’ll be all right.
That’s the start of my week. As you can see, I don’t have regular classes, so you can expect regular updates. Thanks for your patience and I can’t wait to see you all at Christmas!! Only 12 days to go and only 2 Fridays!!
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