We as a group have done many rehearsals recently as some of our group members were missing during the last few weeks due to stay home notice. We had to change some formations and it took time to teach dances to those people, which took some more time for us as a whole group. I also realized my own weakness, which was finding my position when changing the formation and keeping an equal distance from people next to me. I think it is an important element when doing the team dance. I think I will need to focus on this area from now on till the show.
Dance showcase Initial reflection
As a Disney movie lover, Aladdin is one of my favorite movies. When I watched as a young kid, I
really liked the cute personality of Gini despite his giant body. I was so happy when I heard I got into Aladdin dance
team for that reason. On the first rehearsal, we started practicing the dance to the song called “Friends Like ME” By Will Smith which is a very energetic and bright Jazzy song. Dance we learned was not that hard, but some of the moves were quite complicated so I thought I would need to spend much time doing individual practice. From this experience, I would like to develop my skills in dance and collaborate with people who also have passion in dance and performing.
Dance showcase end of season 2(final) reflection
Until the Chinese New Year holiday, we mainly focused on learning the dances that we are going to perform. All of us had to learn the choreography of the song “friends like me” and we divided into two groups where my group learned the jazz-style choreo and the other group learned contemporary dance. As we did not have enough time, we had to learn the dance pretty quickly and had to recall all the moves we learned before the following week during the rehearsal. I sadly forgot most of the moves we learned before CNY after I came back from the holiday, which made me worry a lot. I did not want to be a burden to my group, so I practiced really hard at home. Also, people in my dances helped me a lot and as we practiced as a group, I could memorise the dance quite well. Something challenging was that we were missing few people including one of our leaders that could not come to school due to corona virus. We had to learn formation but it was quite hard to learn it with few people missing as we also had to consider their positions. However, dance leaders uploaded diagram showing our formation on group chat and we could easily figure out formations. We started putting a lot of extra efforts and time 2 weeks before the dance showcase. We practiced during the weekends and after school. Sometimes, as group members were free at different dates and they were all busy so it was hard to come up with the slot where everyone was free. I also had to study for the tests and hoped we could practice after my test to be honest but I could actually managed to do as much work as I would have done if I did not have weekend rehearsals and through this experience, I learned that managing my time is really hard and that doing it well could enable me to do activities I like which will give me positive energy that will keep me motivated and bring some happiness into my life:)