Sharing My Skills

On the 23rd of February I completed the part of my Arts Award that involves sharing my skills.

At my drama group class I led part of the lesson. I had 7 students in my class and I got the group to play 4 different drama games. My class worked well and followed my instructions and everyone participated happily.

I gained some confidence from leading the lesson and I could possibly do it again.

Watching Bugsy Malone with my drama group

On the 9th of February 2016 I went to watch the musical play "Bugsy Malone" with my drama group at Lostock Hall Academy. We went to see this play because a member of our drama group was performing in it.

Through this play I found out that Bugsy was not the main gangster, (which I thought he was) but a boxing promoter who was just sucked into the life of crime.

My favourite actor played the part of Bugsy as he did a very convincing New York accent. The actress from our drama group also did a very good job.

I also enjoyed the live band that accompanied the musical numbers.

I enjoyed the play and spending time with my drama group.

Performing in Aladdin.

In January 2016 I appeared in an adaptation of the famous play Aladdin with the Houghton Players, in Houghton. I performed 8 times over the course of 2 weekends, 4 of which were evening performances, the other 4 were matinees.

The parts which I performed were: 1: Chinese citizen/cleaner.   2: The head of a dragon.
3: A guard. 4: An Egyptian Mummy.

My favourite part was when I acted as the Egyptian Mummy. I found it a lot of fun gradually scaring off the people on stage, then getting scared off myself.

In all I found Aladdin to be a brilliant and fun experience, and would like to do it again, if given the chance.

Arts Inspiration

Daniel Radcliffe presentation

Kapa Haka Tale

On the 20th October 2015 I went to see a dance production called Kapa Haka Tale at The Lowry theatre in Salford with the Truth Dance Company.

It is a maori love story telling the tale of a young woman who had a marriage arranged for her with someone she does not love. She loves somebody else and the production is about her struggles to eventually be with the person she loves.

The story is told through dance and all the dialogue was in the Maori language. I interpreted the story from the dance movements and the actions of the characters.

A part I liked about the performance was the pre-show audience interaction. The cast came amongst the audience and did some Maori actions and interacted with some members of the audience.

It was an enjoyable and interesting experience. I have never been to a dance performance like this before. I think it is something I would like to go to again

Arts Award 15/9/15: Student Planned Lesson 1.

This week at Truth Dance Company I attended the first in a series of student planned and led lessons. This first session was led by Emily. While this ran like any other lesson, I know this is important in the process to gain the arts award. In the lesson we did the usual warmup and monologue practice.

The reasons I am practicing the monologue are these:

• Jackie wants us to get back into the habit of learning them.
• I will use it in an upcoming drama competition.

Also I returned to the Burnley Youth Theatre classes on Thursday after the summer break.

3/9/15 Truth Dance

Since I last made a post there have been two Truth Dance meetings. In the first I practiced such things as:

• Improvisation.
• Memory.
• Breathing exercises.

In the interlude between the first and second meetings I have made a potential plan of having group poetry as the subject of my lesson.

In the second meeting we practiced the following subjects:

• Stage direction.
• Monologue. (I know it almost completely off by heart now.)

Next week I hope to get Jackie's opinion on my lesson idea.