Lewis Wheeler (closed): three?
Friday, Nov 14 2003, 02:50
Production has started and things are going well....So far we've all created little duets with a kind of spanish/tango feel to them and then played around with composition. Mine and Gillian's is being used at the start of a piece of music - don't know if that's the start of our piece or not though with my two best friends dancing it as well. yey.
The rehearsal was fun(ha ha) when we were teaching it and setting it to counts etc I can be far too much of a perfectionist and three of the four of us were stressed to the point where every little detail is the most important thing in the world. Luckily none of us took anything personally but the tension really couldn't get much higher. I like working with stress but sometimes you do start to wonder.
We even managed to piss the whole class of when everyone was supposed to be setting to counts and there's a big 123 223 323....rhythm to set it to but our duets are at the intro part of the music which is all melody and no discernible rhythm and the couple of times we reset the cd player so we could rehearse properly caused a little bit of controversy.
We also had our written feedback sheets today and lots of people were sitting in one of the studios talking about them. One girl said that Dave and Pete had said her turning was rubbish in the tutorial but they had given her a three for turning on the feedback sheet (she felt that was contradictory) Without thinking I said loudly that threes were crap (we were marked out of 5) only to be met by a huge chorus of "three's are good" "three means average" "threes are fine" blah blah blah. Foot, mouth, Sheep disease....
To stand up for myself, in my tutorial everything I'd been given a three for was discussed in the, this is negative what are you going to do about it way. For example, Pete:"Three for progress, does that surprise you?"
I was annoyed/upset with my contemporary mark, 68 since you asked. Flexibility let me down but I have made it to Yoga twice this week and I'm going to find a class for tomorrow. I'm finding it hard to adjust to the fact that I got a higher grade in ballet than contemporary when I'd had maybe 20 ballet lessons before coming to this school yet had been doing contemporary for three years. Just goes to show that Graham is not the technique for me! At all.
Also I have to work on being a performing monkey, I'm in danger of being too much a technician in ballet (instead of letting go, enjoying myself and projecting) and on my contemporary feedback I had the very pointed statement "Make it intelligent."
there is work to be done....
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