Monday 4th January 2013

Monday 4^th January 2013

Today in dance we worked on act 3.

Same began choreographing some of the animal and animal taming routine which we then continued on our own.

The dance begins with Josh M, doing a simple routine, whilst we, the animals, were misbehaving behind him. Eventually, the animals began to join in with this routine to symbolise that we were being tamed. Similar to snake charmers taming snakes with music, we were tamed b dance.

On our own, with the help of Elle, who has a lot of dance experience, we began to choreograph the animal routine. I chose the music for this dance, and selected ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ as I thought that it was a really catchy song and one that will be recognisable and enjoyable for the audience. It is also quite comical in some ways which really suits our play.

We decided that we would have Ben and Josh M doing tricks with hoops in the intro of the song, eventually all of the animals would come on stage doing their tricks and lead into a routine. We then decided that the clowns should come on and disrupt the animals, disrupting them, which would help us lead into the animal taming routine.

I looked on youtube and found a remix of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ which I thought would be really good for when the clowns come on as it shows the disruption and is a more pacey and upbeat version of the song.

The lesson ended before we could finish the dance, so we decided to finish it in a break on another day.