SPINS Performance

On Tuesday (my birthday) we had a performance rehearsal at the secondary school. Grace, Mea and I all went there together after we did the book battle challenge for intermediate schools around the area.

We were the opening act to we had to go first. This was more of a lighting and sound rehearsal so that they could work out how the lights were and to get our music and have it at the right volume. We had simple lights and music but it wasn't cut properly.

Sophie our dance teacher wasn't there for this rehearsal as she couldn't make it and she had the music that was cut to our dance. We just had to use the version that was online and had to pause at some points to wait for it to catch up.

After we did our dance once and practiced coming on from the wings, Leigh who was organising everything said that us three can go now because we had already done our part. We wanted to watch the others but decided to go now.

On the Wednesday we had to be at the Secondary school at 3:00 so we left school a little earlier. We went and got changed into our costumes and went into the auditorium were everything was being set up.

We did our part and then we watched most of the others performances.  We then put $5.00 each towards pizza, chips and drinks. Once the Stage Challenge group had finished performing we got to eat our dinner.

We then just waited for the last groups of people perform their parts. We all did our makeup and people started to arrive as 6:30 was almost here. We had a briefing upstairs because the schedule had changed for some people. 

We then went downstairs to the green room which was backstage. We then walked around the stage to the other side and into our starting positions. Once we had performed we walked back around and upstairs.

The other acts did their parts as we waiting a couple of hours until it was the finale. Mea went to half of her ballet class and grace and I were just upstairs not doing much. Near the end of the show we started to practice some moves.

We did some handstands and walkovers and then decided that we would practice the finale in the dance room with the music because a group of people decided that they wanted to join in so we taught them and practiced.

We then did the finale dance on the stage and after we did it and bowed most people went back on stage and kept dancing and the audience seemed to really enjoy it. We then grabbed all of our things and went home to bed.

SPINS Reflection

SPINS Reflection (class):

I think that this class really helped me with my flexibility, strength and confidence to perform. I really enjoyed working on a new dance and working with new people. I also enjoyed doing another performance in front of people and I feel like it really boosted my confidence.

Something that didn't go to plan in this class is that I found out I could do anything instead of being held back by my sore foot so that helped me to be able to do some things that I couldn't before.

Something I would change for next time is to work a lot more on my handstands and cartwheels so that I can do many things such as clip cartwheels, holding split hand stands and my back walkover.

I think that I was quite good at taking corrections and I tried my hardest to fix my mistakes and make my technique much better than it was before, I liked how everyone gave me things to work on and now I am a lot better.

I feel like I added in some things to this dance and I worked as a team with others especially when we did partner moves and trying to make them as best as possible.

SPINS Reflection (performance):

I think that our characters were good as we had facials that expressed our feelings when dancing and I feel like we really defined our movements to make more effect while performing. I think that I personally did well with my technique and doing the things that I practiced.

 I think that the finale didn't really go as planned, starting off that some others wanted to do it too so we had to teach it to them, then we waited for the music to start but it didn't so we had to go on stage first and just stand there covering it up and then some people went back on after everyone who had bowed but all together I think it looked really good and the audience enjoyed it.

Something I would change for next time would be to have more than two rehearsals so we can get used to the area we are dancing in and the chance to watch everyone else's performances because we didn't really get to.

SPINS W.4

This week we just needed to practice our dance because a fact of dance is you remember a dance after doing it at least 25 times so our goal was to try and practice as many times as possible to remember our dance.

We started off by dong cartwheels from each corner of the room. We then did some handstand for a while but I got annoyed because I kept going into a bridge as always so I tried really hard not to.

When we did cartwheels I practiced my 'Bad Side' because I want to confidently be able to do both ways. I also practiced my clip cartwheels (when you clip your legs in the middle of the cartwheel, hold it and finish going over).

When we did handstands I also worked olin my other leg and tried to keep my arms closer together (shoulder width apart). I also worked on holing my handstand for longer instead of coming straight down.

We were all very tired by the time we finished as we had been trying our hardest like we will when we do the show. We just need to practice through the week so we are ready for our performance on Wednesday 29th of June.

Runway Challenge

Sunday the was the day of the runway challenge. We had our roster all organized and I was on Cafe (Hot chocolates and coffee) the whole time because I have had lots of experience in that section of selling. There was also a bakes sale and sausage sizzle.

The morning started off by setting up the stall. We had a few tables all set up next to each other and Daniel had already set up the machine. There were lots of power cords every were so that we could plug in the 2 machines and the money till.

Not soon after everything was set up and ready, people started to arrive and pick up there bags from in the gym. Sadly we had a rival who was right next to the door and was probably going to steal all our customers.

We didn't get very many customers at the start because it was really hot. It sounded like the bake sale was going well and the sausages were a bit quiet. More people started to come and noticed were we were and we got more customers.

We had some crazy times were there were so many orders as groups of people came to order. Some people even came back to say how nice their drink was which made us very happy. The bake sale moved from being in the cafe as no one could see them there.

They moved in the sun near the sausage sizzle and had the big school gazebo up. They had many customers as they were visible and they had very cheap prices. Mums cupcakes that she made sold like wildfire as they looked and tasted amazing.

We got some more customers and then we got told to wrap up everything. We had to bring everything into the cafeteria and put everything into its place. We were happy because we had learnt lots of money from just looking into the till.

We knew we wouldn't get all the money in the till as we had to pay back the float and half the money to the school for all the cups, hot chocolate and e.t.c. Our rival coffee shop had to pay $30.00 for being there at the event and the Runway challenge group gave it to us.

They also said that they would pay us $500 for letting them use our school for the whole event and also said that they would pay for all the ingredients we used such as the sausages, hot chocolate cups e.t.c.

we were really happy with the days work but were happy to finish. I can't wait until another big fundraiser like that one so it can get us closer to the Gold Coast.