Little shop of horrors: day 1

Today we began to set the dance for Skid Row. To remind ourselves of how we learnt the song we stood in our harmony groups and sang the song through. After that our choreographer began to direct us and set the dance we wanted. One of the main features of the dance is that he allowed us a lot of freedom to allow the different personalities of the characters to come through. We began with a freeze frame, whilst trying to make our position as big and over the top as possible. As Seymour, one of my main efforts was to try and hide myself in the ensemble piece and try not to draw attention to myself to show him as being a very shy and nervous person. Another thing I found difficult was the beginning I my solo piece. Naturally I move around and jolt a lot, moving my arms and dancing around when singing. However as Seymour. I really had to think about how he would stand. What his body language would be like, how he would stand, how would he use his arms, what faces would he pull. I tried very hard to think about that and decided to stand feet together and playing with my hands to show his nervous and geeky character. In addition, one target I would set myself would be to learn the dance set, as dancing is my weak point and I feel very conscious about messing up, so by learning it as much as I can, I will eliminate all mistakes and feel confident in the dance when we come to perform it in rehearsal. I also need to look at theast part of the song as I don't know all of it and forgot my second to last line in one of the practices.