BCA Week 12

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

This week we continued working on the choreography of Time Warp and Sweet Transvertite. At first I didn't really like Time Warp, but since we finished coreographing it and started to put it all together with everybody else, I kind of started to like it more and more, and eventually it became one of my favourite pieces from the whole exam show. The others must feel the same, because I can see that everybody truly enjoys performing this song.

Frozen - Let It Go

This week I performed my solo song for the first time with the teachers and my classmates being present. I think it was okay, my only problem is the choreography; it looks so amazing in the movie with all the special effects, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have the same result on stage. I looked up on Youtube if there is a stage version or anything of this song, and I found this pretty amazing video of  Disney's Hollywood Studios:

I think it will be useful for me to watch it again a couple of times for creating my own choreography.

Chicago

We performed All That Jazz and Cell Block Tango to the class and the teachers. Cell Block Tango went quite well despite the fact that eventually we'll use a different backing track during the exam than the one we'd been using when practicing with the group. The exam track is a lot faster that the one we got used to, but I didn't have any problem with that, since apart from the speed of the rhythm everything else is more or less the same. All That Jazz was a bit more confusing, though, because not only the track is very fast, but also the lyrics go differently, so it didn't go well at all.

The Maids

My partner and I've been working on our first dialogue from Blood Brothers since the beginning of the course, and we've improved quite a lot since we first rehearsed the scene, so it was time for us to get our second piece for the exam. After I got the script in class, I took some time to read through and try to find out what it could be about, but it looked so weird and meaningless that I decided to just leave it for later when I'm back home. The only thing we did with my partner was deciding who plays which character. Mine is going to be Claire. We didn't get any background information about the play from the teachers, the only thing I knew about the scene is the names of the two characters and the title of the play, which is "The Maids". I'd never heard about it before, but since we had some spare time in class to familiarize ourselves with the text, I tried to make a very basic character analysis based on only the information found in the script. This is what I got in class:

• the two girls are housemaids
• they are sisters
• they hate their employer
• in this scene they are about to perform a kind of weird secret ritual

After this, I looked it up at home and found out that it's a 20th century French play (the original title is Les Bonnes) written by Jean Genet, first performed in 1947. Later in 1974, a film of the same title was also made based on this play. It is indeed about two sisters who are both housemaids of the same house and secretly perform ritual role-plays about killing their Madame.