Singing, Dancing and Acting 2

Today we took part in singing, dancing and acting lessons. I think that in the past I have performed better at all 3, when compared to today. However, that could have been due to me putting in less effort as I allowed tiredness to affect me. In the future I must take a more professional approach and, simply warm up for longer, if I am tired.

I did not volunteer to sight read again, as once again I was worried about stumbling over my words. Now I realise that the only way to improve this is to read out loud, in in front of others. Therefore I am setting myself a personal goal, which is to volunteer to sight read the next time I am given the opportunity to do so. I also need to spend more time reading monologues or newspaper passages out loud at home.

Later we participated in movement skills, which began with a warm up. I feel that my fitness has improved as I was able to keep up much more easily. We also had to kick our legs up, while travelling from one corner to the other. Then we had to do 'corner work', which is a short dance routine, travelling from one corner to the other. I struggled as I am still slow to pick up choreography. However, I was better the second time. We then learnt a new dance routine and from this I can tell that I need to improve on timing, picking up the correct choreography and putting more energy into the dance moves.

Then we had singing lessons. I still found it difficult to sing in a group as I can't hear myself and I don't know if I'm hitting the correct notes. To improve this I will practise scales at home and sing with head phones on, as I sing along to loud music.This way I will get use too singing the correct notes when I cannot here myself.