Dress Rehearsal

For our dress rehearsel we rehearsed the moves that we had been practicing over the past couple of weeks ready for our final perfomance.In this dress rehearsal I suppose we practiced putting on a show more than the dance itself.In order to try and achieve more we were told to show more enthusiasm and making like a real line dance.Such as Aditi and Rhenee counting at times and shouting "yeee haaa".We also tried to perfect our look here like always smiling and show the purpose of what line dancing was originally done for which was to celebrate.We also perfected our looks by all wearing checkered shirts,Belts and Jeans and boots of somesort,We accessorised this look with cowboy hats if we had them or could get hold of some and also hankercheifs (Dont how to spell that << but thingy round the neck).

Choreography

After spending a couple more lessons perfecting time and expertise on the tush push and the grapevine sequence.With Miss Hainstock we then added new choreography such as heel toe heel toe,we also added hand movement such as hands in belt loops and also hats off hats on.The new choreography took me a while to get used to and required some extra practice!.Soon enough though I think I got the hang of it.The move I struggled with the most was the gallop and the heel touching one ,At first I found so confusing but after practicing around the room ,I soon figured it out.From here we spent a couple more lessons working on this and getting to know the routine of by heart.

Initial Lesson

In this lesson we focused 'getting to know line dance' and becoming familiar with the terms that are often associated with line dance and popular moves.To get us started  almost as an introdcution sir played the video below;

This vidoe taught us  the basic steps that will help us build our skills as a group and develop basic steps into our own line dance.
After this we used what we learnt here and went on to another video and started to learn more sequencnes,,from the website below;

Here we learnt the 'Tush Push' after becoming familiar with all the moves from both videos we combined the tush oush and grapevine with the beat of Michael Jacksons 'Beat it'.For the rest of the lesson we perfected our timing.

Evaluation Line dancing- Final dance

Overall my performance was Mediocre I feel that I performed at my best whilst in the drama studio as here we had more space and could hear the music a lot more clear. Whilst performing in the drama studio and outside my overall dance was ok but from watching the videos back I found that I missed most of the claps on each turn and didn’t put enough enthusiasm and emotion in the dance I didn’t show the true meaning of line dance through my performance.

The group as a whole worked really well together in my opinion as from watching the video back I saw that everyone including myself was relatively in time. Although I noticed when people boosted there energy and enthusiasm like Aditi there would suddenly find themselves out of time. Which is something to be aware of when we perform the routine again in order to boost the potential grade.

Aspects of the dance It self-the elements of the dance that I found most difficult was the slide in across the room part on your heels, I think I found this difficult as I thought it was embarrassing although after practicing throughout lessons on the day of the final dance I managed to hide the nervousness with that move and managed to not drag attention to myself. The elements of the dance that I most liked were the grapevine and heel toe movements. Also when we performed the dance outside I was given a cow boy hat which made me feel more comfortable as I could see that I wasn’t that noticeable and blended in with everyone else although this also brought out another fault as I hadn’t practised before with a hat I found myself taking the hat of out of time with everyone else. e.g. When watching the videos back I often found that I would take my hat of to quick and then lose confidence as I know that I got the move wrong.