Performance Evaluation of Emmeline's piece ( term 2 )

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My dance performance took place on 16th and 17th of March 2016. Emmeline's stimulus of the piece was “Falling and flying”, it consisted of contemporary, approximate length of the pieces was about 13 minutes.

In this evaluation of performance rehearsal I am going to talk about visual and aural settings of the piece and my opinion about it, my strengths, weaknesses and things I overcome/noticed or reflect afterwards.

Firstly, I would like to talk about my strengths and weaknesses relating to my positioning on stage. In my opinion I did fairly well but I still have to improve my performing skills and etc.

Strengths:

1. Contemporary technique

2. Musicality

3. I am hardworking person

4. Enthusiastic

5. Good team worker

6. Good performing skills such as: engaging with audience, behavior behind the stage and attentiveness and concentration during the performance.

7. Remembering repertoire

Weaknesses:

1. Extraordinary nervousness before going on stage

2. Rushing while performing which leads to unfinished movements, although this time I did much better than last show.

3. Sometimes I get distracted by others which is rude in relation to the teacher and also bad for myself because I can’t get all my attention to work process and I can’t get all information which I should get.

How the performing days did went for me and for my colleges?

Well I would say that the last show was more exciting for me. Perhaps it was because I had not the best time in my life and it was hard for me to concentrate, but it still went well and I’m pleased that I did my best to make this performance special. Firstly, rehearsal period was very fun and maybe even too much fun. Although this Rehearsal period was much shorter than previous one we did a lot and hard job. As I mentioned before we had 13 minutes of choreography and we performed it very well.

Things I overcome/noticed afterwards.

Things I noticed I need to start doing from now on:

1. I have to work one thousand times harder than I worked.

2. I have to concentrate on myself and my targets.

3. I need to overcome my laziness.

4. I have to start interesting in history of dance.

5. I need to stop messing around with colleagues because this is not why I’m going to college.

6. I have to be more enthusiastic.

Things I overcome during the performance and rehearsal period:

1. Loathing to myself.

And it’s probably just one but it keeps a lot in it. First of all I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror because I didn’t feel fit enough for the dancer. Secondly I really didn’t like how I danced, that I don’t have my own style and I felt really uncomfortable because I thought that I’m not interesting as a dancer at all. Thirdly was my behavior. I have never behaved like that before. I was speaking with my colleagues a lot and laughed and sometimes I didn’t pay attention to what Emmeline was saying I also thought that I did better than everyone else and I was totally wrong.

Creative tasks and interesting discoveries for myself.

In my opinion Emmeline and Jasmine tried their best to make creating process interesting and exciting and I think they succeeded.

With Emmeline we did very unusual game-warm up and I noticed that those games really helped us in many ways such as: warm up our body, wake up our brain, pull together with colleagues and had fun and I would definitely use this game - warm up in my future.

We also did workshop with Emmeline on falling, shifting and flying just as we started our Rehearsal period and she definitely took my attention because it was very interesting to do something new. So I was already excited what is going to be in the piece.

Music decisions and my opinion about it.

In Emmeline’s piece we had two pieces of music “Ludovico Einaudi - experience starkey remix” and the second one was “Ezio Bosso – Exit”. Personally I liked both songs but I enjoyed dancing to “Ludovico Einaudi - experience starkey remix” more than to the other one.

Lighting decisions and my opinion about it.

In Emmeline’s piece we have had light on all the time and just at the end the light turned off while we still were on the stage. At the beginning the light was blue on the background but then it changed to side lights.

I think we could have more light on the stage because our costumes were quite dark and it seemed like no one was on stage. I also didn’t like blue light on the background because it totally didn’t match our costume color and because of that this blue light was really distracting and didn’t look good.