Monday 19th October 2015 - America

In this lesson me and Amber started to teach some of the other sharks the America dance that we had previously choreographed. We started with the boys section, as we only ad a short amount of time we didn't have enough time to teach the girl section. We started by going through each movement slowly so that they know what it is in the dance, we gradually put the movements together to make to into a short phrase rather than just movements. We started experimenting with choreographic devises for example in he bit where we jump and click, we split into two and just different ways so that it is mirrored. Once had taught the full phrase we gradually ran through it getting slightly faster each time, until it was fast enough to be able to fit with the music. Then we ran through with the music a few times to get used to the timing, we still need to go though this more times so that everyone gets used to it well enough to perform. In the next lesson the aim to is run through this more and then teach the girl bit. Me and Amber then need to choreograph some of the other parts to build up the scene more so that the audience sees the battle between the girls and the boys in this song.