In the variety show, I was in two dance numbers. The first number was a burlesque duet with Megan that we choreographed with the help of Bernie and Kat. Me and Megan decided early on that we wanted to do a dance piece together and we decided that we were going to do it based on a dance from a musical. The stimulus and theme for the piece was the music and film Burlesque. To show this we done a little bit of research into burlesque and we noticed that most of them use chairs. We then choreographed the first chair section using a few movements from the film. The first two pictures are positions we held. These are similar to what they do in the actual dance to the song. We couldn't pick a song from the film so we decided we wanted to find a mix of multiple songs. After looking online we couldn't find any we liked so I created the song. Our musicality was good as we hit movements on the beats. When we first choreographed the dance we rehearsed in the dance studio however, when we had to show the teachers in the theatre we realised we had to practice in there because of the spacing. Once we realised this we talked and picked times to meet after college and lesson to rehearse in the theatre. However, after watching the performance, we still could of done with more practice. There was one section of the dance we had to change because of the spacing and it involved a lot of traveling and there wasn't enough room.
Rehearsal 1
This was the first section of the dance we choreographed. During our lesson we went to the dance studio, listened to the track I created and watched some burlesque videos to get inspiration and ideas from. We decided we wanted our opening to be a chair section.
Rehearsal 2
During this rehearsal, we worked with Bernie to create the next part of the dance.
Final Performance
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