1st lesson back

In our first lesson back after half term, we sat as a whole group and talked about the performance, that will be in week 6! We talked about it being a promenade piece and closed our eyes and mapped it out in our heads. Firstly, we will start in the New Canteen, all doing the waltz, with parents joining people who aren't dancing in a horseshoe shape. We practised this over and over as our beginning piece. When all the couples in the middle are dancing, we, around the edges are 'drinking tea and eating cake' as if we are all at a tea dance. Then, when the boys are signalled off stage, to leave and start performing on the way to the space, through the corridors, all of the girls start dancing alone, waltzing around the space. Isabella starts slowly singing the beginning of 'pack up your troubles in your old kit bag' and we all eventually join in. All of the girls slow down and you start to see a sad and desperate look of realisation on our faces, whilst we are singing. When we have finished it first, we sing it again, but this time, to the parents in a more 'jolly' manner. When its finished, we all leave still singing, and make our way to the space. We then perform in two groups, our own 15 minute performances. Miss Goodhalls group went into one of the dance studio to rehearse it. We got into groups of six. Me, Ben, Tyler, Claudia, Ursula and Kim were all 'Frontline'.  We devised a piece, really focusing on the music and using levels. Half are up and half are down etc. Then you have the other groups behind us doing their own pieces. We go and find a place to sit down and take off our shoes and socks, and ring them out. Improvising by bandaging our foots, being sick etc. A really dull view on the trench life, to show what it was like.