Kacie Everett Unit 13 & Unit 14 - Dance Technique & Performance

  LESSONS IN TAP   Developing Our Skills - Week 4 - Part 1 [21/5/24] This was our first lesson in 2 weeks. We had to put our tap lessons on hold for 2 weeks due to our exams happening when our tap lessons would have been. This meant that in this lesson we would have to go over previous sequences we learnt in past lessons to remind ourselves of the steps. As our exams are now over for certain units, we now have extra lesson time to have an added tap lesson every week before our next show, Spotlight, where we will be doing a tap number/dance in. This now means that every week we now have 2 lessons dedicated to tap, which in total is 5 hours a week. In previous rehearsals, we were quite doubtful that we would be able to learn tap, learn a dance and perfect it in time for Spotlight. These doubts have left us as we now have an extra lesson for tap which doubles the time that we would’ve had. We now have more time to learn a number and get it performance ready.  In our last les...

  LESSONS IN TAP   Developing Our Skills - Week 3 [1/5/24] In this lesson, we refined all previous sequences we have learnt. We focused on our timing and the counts each sequence has. This will help us to stay in time with one another. Our warm-up this lesson was to recap the sequences we learnt last lesson and to see if we could remember them. Over the last few lessons, we have worked on memorising each sequence to help them to stay in our heads. Testing our memories at the start of the lesson to see how well we do remember each sequence, allows us to see what we still need to work on and gives Rob a chance to see what we, as a class, are struggling to remember. I personally, am struggling to remember paradiddles and the time step sequence as they are something that I have practiced less. I have particularly practiced the time step sequence less as they aren’t my favourite seance we have been taught as I struggle to do them the most. I need to focus on what I struggle the mos...

  LESSONS IN TAP   Developing Our Skills - Week 2  [24/4/24] This is week 2/lesson 2 of learning tap. The main aim for this lesson was to begin learning the sequence for our tap number for the next show. Before we learn the sequence, we started by going over the sequence we learnt last lesson. We need to keep the sequences fresh in our minds so that we don’t forget them.  The sequence was ‘tap step heel toe heel step pickup step shuffle step shuffle step step heel’. Over the last week, I have made sure to practice over the last week, by going over the sequence to ensure it stays in my mind. In this lesson, we learnt a lot more and it was quite physically draining so I struggled with my stamina a bit. Over time, my stamina will improve the more I practice and do tap. I’m struggling now as this style of dance is new to me so my body is not used to doing it.  In this lesson, one of the things we learnt was a new sequence, ‘shuffle ball-change  tap step heel he...