Due to private life issues (moving to a new home and other things) I didn't have enough time to finish my entry of week 14 and 15, and I'm feeling quite bad about it, because such a lot had happened during the last two weeks, including a discussion and reading of The Maids and getting some more background roles in musical pieces.
Week 14
This week I spent most of my time at the rehearsals on my solo song Let It Go. I worked on my vocals as well as the visuals of the song. My teacher and one of my classmates gave me some advices on the movements, which was a great help as I am not really good at moving on stage without any given instructions at all. I made a list of their tips so that I can remember them and use them later when I'm working on other projects:
* Use the space around you, don't stay in one place all the time.
* Avoid turning back to the audience unless it's really necessary for the choreography.
* Don't start a song too strong, because if you do so, you won't be able to get even stronger later. This goes for movements and also vocals.
We didn't work much on the dialogue scenes this week, but I started to read The Maids and later I will also start doing my character analysis. The reason why I haven't started doing it is that my partner and I are not really sure which parts of the scene will stay and which will be cut, and also the teachers haven't confirmed yet which one of us is playing which character.
Week 15
We started this week with working on the two exam dialogues, then moved on and started to make the choreography ofthe two songs from Evita: Oh What A Circus and Don't Cry for Me, Argentina.
Blood Brothers
This week we worked on the small details of the scene such as positions, movements and gestures. Also, my teacher advised me to use my own accent instead of trying to go for the English accent which is required for the play. I originally planned to learn the English one once I was absolutely comfortable with everything else about the scene, but since we don't have much time left until the exam, I agreed with her.
The Maids
We had the first discussion with one of our teachers about the scene from The Maids this week. First we had to read the dialogue with my partner, then the teacher talked a little bit about the play itself. I have not finished reading it yet, but I've read summaries so I had a rough idea of what is going on during our scene, and I also found some information about the characters:
* Madame is a rich and very beautiful lady. She's very young, around 25, and she has quite an immoral lifestyle, she goes out often at night and all.
* Claire and Solange are her housemaids. They're sisters, and their age is somewhere between 30 and 35. Their appearance is quite ugly and grotesque, they're not attractive at all. They both hate and envy Madame and often think of murdering her.
The relationship between Claire and Solange:
* Claire is the younger sister of Solange
* codependence on each other
* Claire is afraid of Solange
* taking turns of playing Madame in their roleplaying rituals
Originally my partner and I planned that I would play Claire and she would be Solange, but our teacher advised us to swap roles because in Blood Brothers I'm playing the less dominant character, so in this scene it should be the opposite. So now that I know for sure that my character is going to be Solange, I will soon start working on the analysis.
Evita
The main idea is that we're going to be people at a public mourning for Eva Perón. Since I know very little about the musical Evita, I still need to look it up, but I don't really have time for that at the moment. All I know is that Eva Perón was a real person from Argentina, who lived in the 20th century and was a politician and also an actress.
Week 14
This week I spent most of my time at the rehearsals on my solo song Let It Go. I worked on my vocals as well as the visuals of the song. My teacher and one of my classmates gave me some advices on the movements, which was a great help as I am not really good at moving on stage without any given instructions at all. I made a list of their tips so that I can remember them and use them later when I'm working on other projects:
* Use the space around you, don't stay in one place all the time.
* Avoid turning back to the audience unless it's really necessary for the choreography.
* Don't start a song too strong, because if you do so, you won't be able to get even stronger later. This goes for movements and also vocals.
We didn't work much on the dialogue scenes this week, but I started to read The Maids and later I will also start doing my character analysis. The reason why I haven't started doing it is that my partner and I are not really sure which parts of the scene will stay and which will be cut, and also the teachers haven't confirmed yet which one of us is playing which character.
Week 15
We started this week with working on the two exam dialogues, then moved on and started to make the choreography ofthe two songs from Evita: Oh What A Circus and Don't Cry for Me, Argentina.
Blood Brothers
This week we worked on the small details of the scene such as positions, movements and gestures. Also, my teacher advised me to use my own accent instead of trying to go for the English accent which is required for the play. I originally planned to learn the English one once I was absolutely comfortable with everything else about the scene, but since we don't have much time left until the exam, I agreed with her.
The Maids
We had the first discussion with one of our teachers about the scene from The Maids this week. First we had to read the dialogue with my partner, then the teacher talked a little bit about the play itself. I have not finished reading it yet, but I've read summaries so I had a rough idea of what is going on during our scene, and I also found some information about the characters:
* Madame is a rich and very beautiful lady. She's very young, around 25, and she has quite an immoral lifestyle, she goes out often at night and all.
* Claire and Solange are her housemaids. They're sisters, and their age is somewhere between 30 and 35. Their appearance is quite ugly and grotesque, they're not attractive at all. They both hate and envy Madame and often think of murdering her.
The relationship between Claire and Solange:
* Claire is the younger sister of Solange
* codependence on each other
* Claire is afraid of Solange
* taking turns of playing Madame in their roleplaying rituals
Originally my partner and I planned that I would play Claire and she would be Solange, but our teacher advised us to swap roles because in Blood Brothers I'm playing the less dominant character, so in this scene it should be the opposite. So now that I know for sure that my character is going to be Solange, I will soon start working on the analysis.
Evita
The main idea is that we're going to be people at a public mourning for Eva Perón. Since I know very little about the musical Evita, I still need to look it up, but I don't really have time for that at the moment. All I know is that Eva Perón was a real person from Argentina, who lived in the 20th century and was a politician and also an actress.
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