Final Cats Dance Audition

Above is my 2 minute final dance audition for Cats.

The song I had chosen to dance to was 'Macavity the mystery cat' because I felt like the beats and timings were something I could work with a lot better than any other possible Cats songs.

The stimulus for the dance was obviously Cats and mystery but also with Jazz type theme.

I used choreographic devices such as levels, change of tempo/speed and repetition to my advantage when giving the impression of a mysterious type cat - for example using a mid level with slow but graceful speeds gave the impression I was being careful and sneaky.

I tried to incorporate movements such as turns and rolls as much as possible to create an energetic atmosphere to the piece - although I am a sneaky sly cat I'm also loud in my movements and  at times likes the attention of everyone.

A good strength for my dance audition, I think was the use of staying in and dancing as a character, for example using facial expressions and movements to exaggerate the personality of the character - Macavity.

A weakness though to my devised dance was my lack of experience in dance as well as a few movements not looking strong or professional enough -  but after the audition I really felt more confident with dancing now and certainly more able to dance in front of an audience and creating good ideas.

If I were able to devise and choreograph the dance audition again I would definitely spend more time researching movements and the character as although I spent some time on it I realised when trying to devise movements that it wasn't enough and didn't relate to the personality of the core character. 

Section 1 - Story

Political Theatre

3 Things that have come into politics that has effected you.

1) Obama coming into president, this has effected me as it changes the the way I learn about diversity.

2) Train fares, as I take the train this has a large effect on how much money I spent.

3) Margret Thatcher, being all over the news it affected how often I watch the news now, not every often.

Ways in which political issues can be addressed and shown:

The News for example BBC news, ITV news and any televised news stations.

Newspapers and Magazines as they tend to give bias important about one side of the news.

How social issues can be manipulated.

1) Introducing extra facts on information.

2) Gives another angle on perspectives.

Story, an argument between two people selection from a set of examples.

Shawn Spencer: Dear Residents,

Gus Burton: 

Singing Audtion for CATS

For the singing audition we had to sing two songs - one fast and another slow.

The first slow song I choose was Close every door by Joseph because I felt this was one of the few good songs I could sing but also had a few challenging keys for me to reach such as on the line 'Children of Israel'

I felt my audition went well though I managed to reach most notes and sung confidently in both songs.

One thing which pulled me down though was singing too fast and out of time which could have been a nervous issue, to conquer this in the future I could sing in front of friends and family to become more comfortable with singing in front of people.

First song:
Close every door song

Second song:

There's not business like show business song