On the 15th of March we performed our all that jazz dance in cabaret. We had rehearsals in the hall on Thursday period 3, 4 and 5. The rehearsal went well. When we rehearsed I danced it all correctly which made me feel more confident for the evening to come.
When the evening came I had another act before our dance, so after band I had to get changed and do my make up really quickly. I did it in good time and go to practice before in the drama studio before. When we were getting ready on stage I started to feel really nervous. The reason is it’s such a precise dance if I did anything wrong it would be really noticeable.
We all got in position and the curtains opened. The music which started to play was the wrong music. We all got the giggles but kept out position. Then they turned off the music, the next music they played was also the wrong music. We tried to keep our position but are arms were aching so they just the curtains. Eventually they played the right music bit the curtains didn’t open in time but we carried on.
At the very start I made a little mistake instead of having my hand down by my side it was on my hip but after that I did everything else correctly. I didn’t notice any one else make a mistake when we were on stage. Afterwards Myraim said she had slipped on her chair but she made a very good recovery!
I think the strongest part of the dance is the chair section. It looked really effective on stage. If I had to improve anything I would make sure all our toes were pointed when they needed to be.
We were originally singing but with the dance we did we couldn’t have sung. It would have been very hard to sing during the dance sections and the train section. We would have been very out of breath and it wouldn’t sound too good.
I really enjoyed the dance it was good fun. It was an interesting style to learn.
