Task One: Evaluation of Process and Performance of SIX

 after being cast as Anna of Cleves, I was super excited to start rehearsing. During our first rehearsal there was lots of choreography that had to be learnt, this started to make me panic as I am not the best at picking up choreography in a short amount of time. At this point I had noticed that my peers playing the other principal roles were quite good at picking up choreography, this made me feel quite inferior and made me panic and worried that I wasn’t going to be able to do a good job or that I was looking silly.

after that first rehearsal I went home feeling quite defeated I wanted to give up, What I decided to do was pick myself up and watch the videos of the dances that we had learnt  today. I watched the videos for a few hours learning the dance and trying to perfect it for the next rehearsal. The next day at the next rehearsal I now knew the dance quite well from the point that we had stopped yesterday , but a new problem arose there was more choreography  to learn and I felt just as I had yesterday beginning. at this point I realise it’s no good learning the choreography at home as I will be in endless cycle, so I decided to take the initiative and ask for help. Luckily one of the dance captains was kind enough to offer to help me during rehearsals whenever there was a break and go through the choreography with me and simplify it. This was very helpful and I am so grateful to them as they truly helped.

The choreography was now starting to get into my head, but to me that still wasn’t enough as against the other people I still felt singled out as I knew it wasn’t as sharp as them. Something that helped with this was one of my teachers giving me advice, they said to me it doesn’t matter how I look when I’m dancing as long that I am doing it in character and performing in character, and making those mistakes in character. This was advise that really made something switch in my brain, it made me realise that I didn’t need to be so worried  and as long as I was in character and I had fun with my role that no one would know that I was messing up the dance, they were just think I was performing and everything I was doing this on purpose.