Thursday 10 December 2009
WRITING STYLE 1
Les Miserables
Les Miserables an international award winning musical has been going for a record 25 years and is still going strong today. It sweeps its audience through a tale of passion, the gripping political revolution of 19th century France, and music that is so unforgettable that you come out of the theatre wanting more.
Les Miserable was first opened in the prestigious Palace Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue in 1980, and moved to The Queen’s Theatre enthralling audiences today as it did then. Les Miserables fondly known as Les Miz is one of these musicals that you want to see over and over again because the love song’s pulls at your heart strings and the revolutionary overture gets your blood pumping and foot tapping with the production.
This remarkable production adapted from the classic novel by Victor Hugo is a tale that you will never forget. Pursued relentlessly by a policeman ‘’Javert’’ who only knows Jean Valjean as prisoner 24601 wants only to see him behind bars for breaking his parole. The chain gang sang by Valjean and Javert moves you to the core.
The story follows Valjean over a decade of political revolutionary France being befriended by Bishop Digne who gives him his first break and the opportunity to turn his life around.
That is exactly what he does and we see him working hard to become the owner of a factory and mayor. Intending on helping others he agrees to raise the daughter ‘’Cosette’’, of a dying prostitute, ’’Fantine’’, who is being cared for by the Thenardiers, a crooked couple intent on exploiting anyone who comes in contact with them. Here we meet little Cosette singing a moving solo of Castle on a cloud. If you have a dry eye you are not human.
Valjean and Cosette flee to Paris and after an uneventful few years, Cosette now a young lady falls in love with student Marius, involved with the revolution. Making Cosette happy and keeping her safe is paramount to Valjean and with this in mind he gets involved with the revolution party and there finds himself having to safe his arch enemy ‘’Javert’’ from the hands of the student who discover that he is a spy. Javert not being able to cope with his conflicting feelings of justice and feeling beholding to Valjean for showing him mercy, kills himself.
A Cameron Mackintosh production of an epic proportion in the musical world with lyrics by Herbert Krazmer and music by Cloude-Michel Schoenberg has been seen by more then 55 million people worldwide, in 40 countries with translation in 21 languages. This has been one of the most spectacular adaptive masterpiece which continues to thrill audiences, day in day out with a list of scores having artist wanting to perform the version, such as, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, David Essex, Michael Crawford, most recently Susan Boyle an amateur singer stole the show with a jaw dropping performance of ‘’I dreamed a dream’’ for Britain’s got Talent television programme There are so many unforgettable songs that this musical will never die.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Just want to say a big thanx u to everyone as I did not understand the Kolb theory that much but after looking at a few blogs and researching about it, i finally understand how it all works....... I want to say a BIG thanx u to ABBI WILLIAMS, because everytime I ask for help you always answer me and help me through it so thanx u!!!.x
Kolb's Learning Cycle:
For this task we have been asked to look at David Kolb's Learning Cycle as way of reflecting on our own work, Kolb's theory has been designed to help any practitioner develop their learning skill's to high standard. Using his method can really help anyone improve on anything they want to do as long as they use his theory. It consists of four stages that I think are easy to understand and all you have to do as an practitioner is apply this to everyday life and with every experience and you will be able to analyze yourself and you teaching method's thoroughly. Kolb's four stages are:
Concrete Experience: This is where you are having or actually going through the experince.
Reflective Observation: This is where you reflect on the experience you had.
Abstract Conceptualisation: This is learning from the experience.
Active Experimentation: This is where you carry out what you have learnt from your experience.
Using this cycle I am going to try and to explain an experience I had covering the four stages. For my Final Module at Barnet College Foundation Degree we were asked to either write a script for the class to perform or just perform in someone's piece or direct a piece, I chose to direct and help write a play lasting 20 minutes with a partner who's name is Sophia, we decided to call our play " Breaking The Silence."
Concrete Experience:
Sophia and I wanted to write a play that was based on Sophia's personal experience of poverty, abuse, freedom and hopefulness. As it was a subject to close to Sophia's heart she asked me to direct the piece as I would have an outside eye so to speak, to start off with we decided that this one woman show would portray her life in four stages, from the age of 5, age 12, age 15 and adulthood. At this stages we thought that it would be a good idea to have a theme behind it to portray what was going on, so when sophia played a 5 year old she was talking and showing what her life was like then. At the age of 12 Sophia was shipped off to her aunties while her mum worked her second job and this is where the abuse started, at the age of 15 is where the abuse worsened and she deteriorated more within herself and with her family, at the final stage in the play was where she had become an adult and delivered a monologue on how she had overcome her past to meet her husband and have children. This was really tough for me to direct has I had never directed a piece with such substance, I thought to myself how am I going to do this in time for june which was when our performance was. As it was Sophia who is 36 years old and who has her own drama school is used to directing so when I said that I wanted her to do a certain action for example, she would not want to do it like that. I think we spent most of our time disagreeing until I said to Sophia that she has to try and not get to personally involved she has to remove herself from directing and just act and leave me to direct and trust my instincts. When I had said this to Sophia she knew that I was making sense and listened to what I had told her to do.
Reflective Observation:
Although this is probably the most stressed I had been on the course looking back I am actually glad that I worked with someone who is fiery as I have learnt how to behave around them and talk to them, I mean you never know if someone in this industry is going to be worse then her but it is just how you deal with the situation that will make you come back on top. For this play I realised that we needed some sort of structure as to what was going in the play writing wise, how we were going to show such scenes to the audience and how to manage the time we had until the show most efficiently, The first thing I did was to draw up a timetable and have a note/logbook ready to jot down what went well in the session and what did not go so well, this helped us not waste time because we could clearly see what had worked in a scene and what had not so we concentrated on what went well and improved on it dramatically so that Sophia knew on which days the subjects we were tackling or improving. I said to Sophia to write the script as it is her personal life we were going to illustrate, so this was also included on the timetable very clearly so that she knew that she had that responsibility, as we could not practice our play at college because of the clashes of classrooms I had to make sure that either Sophia would come to mine or that I go to hers and that we would actually get on rehearsing and not talking. This was just a challenge by itself as Sophia and I can talk fro england but I had to remain focused because if the show had fallen apart it would be my fault as I am the director.
So far I had come up with a timetable and I had delegated to Sophia what she had to do, the next big step was to get her to do some character research so that when it came to playing the 5 year old she was acting exactly how they would, this was also hard as she is used to just being a normal 36 year old, so I know this was a challenge for her but I mad her watch he film Jack where Robin Williams plays a child, I made her watch Belle out of emmerdale and I asked her to watch her own kids at her Drama School as they are from ages 5-12, so this would be perfect for her, after a while and after her character research I would make Sophia improvise a scene being 5 years olds and I would get her to repeat this until I thought it was good enough, I did this whole procedure with her for each age group we were going to show in the play, I then mixed it up a little by getting her to Improvise being 5 but when I called out "ADULT" she would have to switch characters, so that she would get used to playing any of the ages with hesitating.
I remember that- that little exercise alone took us 2 weeks to perfect and I thought to myself how we going to do this in time, but in fact having less time made us work more!. The next stage for us was to get Sophia to be off script so that we could really get our teeth into rehearsing and making the scenes perfect, this was not easy as we both had conflicting idea's as to how we wanted to show scenes me as an director wanted one way and Sophia wanted it another as it was her life story so she wanted to show it exactly how it happened, but we comprised as we both realised that we were headstrong because we wanted it to be good. I learnt to listen to Sophia as I was not there during her "growing up years" and she learnt to listen to me as I was interpreting what she was saying in an artistic way because although we wanted it to be a play with a message we had to put n a PERFORMANCE that would make the audience interested.
Thinking back I remember that after sorting out these points for the play we began to work as though we were in a routine and everytime we tackled another scene I would get Sophia to break it down with me and just concentrate on working on that scene until I was satisfied , by doing this we began to work faster as we stuck to everything on the timetable, so eventually 2 weeks before the show we were ready to go on as we had worked out everything that had to be dealt with in an orderly manner to a high standard.
Abstruct Conceptualisation:
I think that I have learnt a bit from this experience, I say a bit because i have not really had the chance to put this cycle into play because I have not had another experience in a performing arts way but I am hoping that through this course I will have plenty to think and write about and now that I know about this cycle I can always use and apply it everyday life where it will probably become second nature. I think what I have taken away from this experience is that when you have to work with someone that is as headstrong as you are, then you have to come up with some ground rules so that you know what is expected of each of you and what job role each of you have and most importantly that you stick to it. I also think that being organised plays a great deal when doing something on this kind of scale so having a timetable and sticking to it is important then you will not fall behind but actually you will benefit from it, having a notebook or logbook is a great help as you memory cannot hold anything I found this very useful indeed because when you are rehearsing a scene and note down something that has gone well or something you need to work on then when it comes to rehearsing that scene all you have to do is look at your notes and proceed from there this also helps you not to waste time.
Active Experimentation:
I have as yet had the chance to try out what I have learnt but For this Blog Project I did draw up and timetable of what I was going to do each day and I would stick to only that so that I would not stress myself out, so for instance on Monday I would just concentrate on putting up my CV and making sure that the information on there was correct and read over it so see if i could add more etc, then on Tues I would just concentrate on My 5 Resources again looking over everything and making sure it was correct. I found that working this way helped me take in the information on what I was learning easier as I was not overloading my brain and most importantly I was not getting stressed out but actually enjoying what I had learnt and being quite proud of my blog thinking " how did I do that?". So I suppose what I have taken from this experience is how to use my time effectively and productively and have all the information correct and a high standard (I hope). I am hoping that as we continue with this course I will be able to have more chance to express what I have learnt and to use the Kolb theory as a way of expressing it.
Overall I think that Kolb's theory is a very good way to reflecting on every experience you have so that you know what you have to improve on and how you are going to plan out what it is you want to achieve.
Kolb's Theory!!!!!
Ok I am having a little trouble trying to digest this Kolb's theory no matter how many times I read it, it is like I have a mental block..... however I am going to try my best and interpret what I think it is... Wish me luck now lol!!!!!!
Friday 30 October 2009
Links Of Interest!!!!
Sea Cadet Corps!!!!!
The Sea Cadet is about young people learning about the Navy and the kind of work they do but in a very disciplined way and I mean very disciplined. I joined the SCC (Sea Cadet Corps) at the age of thirteen having no clue what this organisation was about however as my brother joined the week before and told me a few things he had learnt I decided that it would be a good idea to join and see for myself. The Captain of the SCC for my unit is called Paul Caroll whose children went to the same secondary as my brother so when I first arrived although I was a little nervous it helped that I did already know a few people, I remember when I first walked into unit seeing members in there smart uniform made me feel so scruffy in my jean's and top however just by looking at them all I knew that I was going to be part of something special. The first few weeks were weird as I remember because I had to learn a few skills such as time keeping and I know you might be thinking that is such an easy thing to do but at the SCC if you were a minute late when they summoned for you- you could have ended up scrubbing the toilet with a toothbrush!, might sound a bit harsh but people learnt to be on time for majority of things after learning that lesson I have to say I was lucky as I never had to do that thank god. As I said up above The Sea Cadet was like being in the navy you learnt majority of skill's they learnt and basically done everything they done except actually going to war, many of my friends after getting a taster of being in the SCC left to actually join the navy or army as they had enjoyed the whole experience as a youngster, in fact if I did not love performing arts so much I would have probably joined the Navy with the skill's that I have acquired from being in the SCC.
Getting my uniform was a big achievement, you in the SCC in order to gain your uniform you had to pass a test in fact in order to move up in ranks you had to do various test. The ranks were:
Junior Cadet
Cadet
Able Cadet
Leading Hand Cadet
Probational Petty Officer
Petty Officer
Adult Officers include:
Midshipman
Sub Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Lieutenant Commander
Commander
I managed to gain up to Petty Officer which was very nerve racking but exhilarating at the same time, the thing I remember most about cadets is all the course I had attended such as First Aid, Power Boating, Sailing, Communications, Shooting, Drill, where I am actually qualified to do or teach these subjects. I loved all the fun surrounding the competitions like the Boating competition's on a warm sunny day where all different units that are in the North London District get together and compete against each other, I remember when waiting to compete once our unit had a water fight with edgeware unit even the officers would get involved and have fun, at the end of the competition if you had done well then you would receive a medal such as bronze, silver or gold, best female cadet, best male cadet etc, if it was an District competition and your team managed to get through you could be on your way to Area ( which is the equivalent to semi-final in an ordinary competition) and then from Area you would go to Nationals this is where you could play teams from all over England.
My favourite subject at cadets was Drill I loved all the uniform you had to wear and how everyone would be so sharp and on point with their rifles when given a command, in the SCC there is a massive competition for Drill where you compete and have to have certain moves in your Drill routine, this is very hard to pass however our unit came third when we entered with my brother being in command. Another big thing in the cadets was Traf Guard where for a whole weekend you would have to compete against each other in order to gain a spot on the in the squad to represent the SCC for when the Sea Lord came down this takes place in Trafalgar square for all to see but you have to be the best and the weekend is so tiring carrying a rifle al the time marching up and down and doing various moves with the heavy rifle but my god does it all look sharp when you look at it I managed to get in the squad four times whilst I was at cadets unfortunately you can only compete until you are 22 years of age. In cadets we often got asked to be part of the Lord Mayor's Show that happens every year in London( this is a massive parade that happens throughout London in honour of the Lord Mayor) this was fun meeting different people from different groups like dancers or a dog show etc, we are also asked to represent Remembrance Sunday this is another parade that happens in Whitehall at the Cenotaph where we have to march down in our best uniform and our Commanding Officer of or area would lay a reef. This is a very special feeling being involved in something as precious as this where it is being televised so no mistakes allowed. Cadets gives you a great opportunity of learning new skills that you can use in everyday life and gives you the opportunity to meet new people as well as doing all the fun things like parades and competitions, you can join from the age of 10-18 or as an adult you can volunteer to be part of something in fact all adult officers are volunteers, this is a good worthy organisation that keeps kids off the street and teaches them something productive, there a few benefits such as the qualifications that I earned can still be used now and I got to meet the Queen for her Jubilee a few years ago, I also met Prince Philip because I had done my Duke of Edinburgh training and managed to gain awards.
If I you know anyone who is interested in this kind of activity then please encourage them to join as the opportunities are great I would do it all over again if I had the chance!!!!.
Just a Few Snaps:
www.seacadetcorps.co.uk
Musical Theatre!!!!!!!!
I am a massive fan of musical Theatre I think that it wonderful how music and dance have been brought to life through the stage. The very first musical that my parents took my brother and I to see was Joesph and his amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, when sitting getting ready to watch this show I thought to my self how will they be able to portray what happened in the bible on stage in such a small area ( I think I was only 7 then) but when the showing started I could not believe what I had just seen it was absolutely amazing the presence all the actors had on the stage and the chemistry that came across was fantastic, I could not believe how the set itself was made all the colours, the props it was like I was actually there in that era, they had got everything right. I felt that the singing that went with the play just brought it all to life and it was then that I thought I wanted to do something like this when I was older. After seeing that I begged my mum for singing lesson, unfortunately she could afford to send me as I was already dancing 6 nights a week as well as fitting karate piano and guitar lessons and then later on Sea Cadets and drum lessons, so I think its fair to say that my mum was right lol. My brother and I asked our parents to take us to see it again and since that time we have both been hooked on Musical Theatre.
The next play we did go and see was Jesus Christ Superstar again it exceeded my expectations as I was still young I did think how will they fit that whole story into just two hours, but they did and the music was great, hearing a live orchestra really bought the atmosphere together and I really thought that I was back in those times seeing be lived right infront of me. I think the thing for me that really stands out in musically theatre is how accurate they can get the set,props and even characters to be exactly how they are in the film/books. I sometimes feel overwhelmed when going to the theatre as I really just want to be part of the whole production and I want it to last all night. Something else that amazes me is how these actors remember all them lines from beginning to end for two hours every night I mean sometimes I get given a script with only to lines and I go blank let alone a whole script infront of hundreds.
We have been to see Joseph and his amazing Technicolour Dream Coat x2, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease x2, Beauty and The Beast, Les Misarble x7, Sound of Music, Lion King, Dirty Dancing, Billy Eliot, Wicked. Everytime we do go to see a theatre production we have to see Les Mis before we see the next showing of whatever we go and see, my mum is french and she loves this play especially the music, I have to say that the melodies from these songs are beautiful they make me want to compose even to try and compose for an orchestra( a challenge and a half I think!) because nothing can beat the sound of live music with beautiful melodies being played right infront of, if I have seen the film of one of the plays I really feel like I could play a character because I have the music the set and the props to bring it all to life. My favourite Musical is Lion King, I think that the cast of this play have really worked and researched this play well because as we all know Lion King is all animal animated so to see actors on stage moving professionally but as an animal is magically because they actually move exactly like how the animals would move, from a way the head turns to jumping or running so sharply, the bright bold colours really make you feel as though you were in Africa the music is good but for me I would how they can move there body as an animal so perfect is incredible.
Thursday 29 October 2009
Ok I need your help again people!!!!! Was just wondering if anyone knows how to add youtube vidoes to there profile as you can tell by now I am rubbish with computer's lol, but I would like to add some video's for my people I admire and Links of Interest so any help would be much appreciated..... THANXS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok after having had a little think about this exercise and after receiving some feedback to help think more in detail about what to write I think that I have found a few people that have inspired me to learn more about some of the Art's I am interested in:
The first person that I would like to talk little about is HANS ZIMMER, born in Germany Hans become involved with music from an early due to a personal tragedy, so because of this he threw himself into the music world and found that he had become really passionate about it. He worked with a band called The Buggles which play Rock and Pop music ( this type/ genre of music is called a New Wave) murged together a
nd began just by playing the key board, this band was formed in 1977. From here he began working and joining different bands to get the experience of playing with them.
He started composing for the BBC for a program called ' Going For Gold' which for him was something little compared to the dream he had of making it big so to speak, however it filled his time and he had fun while doing it. Composing was something he loved doing and because of his drive to make something of himself , he never gave up on it.
Composing for Hollywood is probably a dream come true for Hans, as this came about when being asked to compose a score for the file ' The Rain Man', how he got his inspiration to write a piece of music for the film let alone a whole score was by really connecting with the film and delving deep into the life of the characters to understand what they were all about. I think that this really helped him take off and he began composing for other films such as Gladiator, The Da Vinci Code, The Lion King, The Dark Knight and many more. My personal favourite is Gladiator, I picked Hans Zimmer beacuse his music is beautiful the way he pharses a song is always an education and a thrill for me, as I have grown up listening to music or learning how to play a piece on the piano, listening to a piece of Hans music inspires to get out my manuscript and start composing myself the way he was always determined to make good muisc that everyone old or young could listen to and the drive he had to succeed makes me want to go out there and start teaching people how to play the piano or try and compose a piece of music for a small band that perhaps could lead me to greater things musically.
Gene Kelly:
Ok the next person that feel has inspired me to learn Dance is Gene Kelly, born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, he too also started at a young age to get involved with the Art's particular Dance. Gene attended a Dance school at the age of eight however being young and being a boy he did not really enjoy his experience there and found that Dance was not for him I also think because he was bullied at school for dancing it made him not want to dance anymore. By the time he was fifteen he realised that dance does have its benefits as girls would be more inclined to talk to him if they saw him dancing so he carried on learning while still going to school, and even though he was achieving many things in school such as sports he found dance a way to release his stress from family and school.
Gene did attend high school and college but due to family finances Gene and his brother entered local competition's dancing away to win the prize money for the family. With the help of the family and the money that they had previously won Gene's family decided to open up a dance studio in the name of Gene and later branched out by opening a few more. At the dance studio/school Gene would help out by teaching dance which he enjoyed as well as fitting university into his daily life however going to uni and and studying law was not enough for Gene who really wanted to get out there and perform, so he decided to drop his degree and follow his heart and hunger for performing, he left everything behind to move to New York to try and get work as an Choreographer and Dancer.
Gene Kelly had many set backs whilst trying to aim high but his determination to succeed payed off when eventually he was able to choreograph to and dance to his choreography in the play ' Time Of Your Life ' because he was very successful from the play, it opened many doors for him and he began choreographing for more and more plays, this then lead him to Hollywood where he started to sing, dance and act in films, doing musical films was a big step for him as not many people had ever done that, a break through came when he won critical acclaim the work he had done for the film ' On The Town' where he brought musical theatre to live through film. Where he had teamed up with Frank Sinatra, an instant was this the choreography was of very high standard and his acting skill and singing skills had dramatically improved. The chemistry between all singers, dancer and actors was clear for all to see and I think this is where Gene might of felt like he had made it.
For me the thing that got me hooked on Gene was that fact that his dancing was impeccable his techniques are just flawless and he can inspire to just get up and dance. Although Gene used a lot of techniques for it was the way he would interpret these techniques into something quite spectacular and special and really made it his own. I like how he broke the mould for today's society in the way he brought musical theatre into film which has allowed today's films like Grease, High School Musical, Hairspray, Moulin Rouge to even be considered to be made into film involving all the Arts to emerge together.
Michael Jackson:
The third person that I cannot wait to talk about is the one and only Michael Jackson, born in Indiana, Michael was one of ten children. His parents especially his dad was a very strict person following the religion of an Jehovah Witness. I think that because of this religion it provoked Jackson's dad to do the things he did. From an early Joe Jackson (Michael's dad) could see that Michael was a talented young boy and because of this decided to form the group/band named The Jackson Fives, this band was made up of all the Jackson brother's, with Tito playing the Lead Guitar and Jermaine playing the Bass Guitar, while Marlon, Jackie and Michael sung and danced. Although the Jackson Five were talented it was Micheal that really stood out amongst them all and soon became the lead vocal for all there songs. The Jackson's worked hard as an band and it eventually paid off when they were signed to Motown Record's where they released many songs in fact they were the first group to have four number one's on the American Billboard these songs were, ABC, I Want you Back, I'll Be There and The Love You Save. The Jackson's continued to write good songs but it was still Michael that stood way above the rest.
Michael's love and passion for music just kept growing and so he decided to use his talent and begin a solo career his first album Off The Wall was an instant hit and so Michael's career was taking off, it was because of Off The Wall that Michael won his first grammy award. After this it seemed Michael could do no wrong and it was like everything he done turned to gold. Michael was the first person in history to break the mould for black entertainers to appear on Mtv which is where he first Billie Jean and where showcased his legendary dance The Moon walk. It was here that viewers began to see the real Michael what exactly he could do and my god was it fantastic. As a performer Michael could really hold the stage his singing was surperb and his dancing, well let's just say that nobody had ever come across his type of dancing, it was they way he was so sharp so perfect, how everything was in time exactly just everything really. For me like everyone else I think that the turning point for Michael Jackson was when he released his album Thriller, seeing the video that went with the song just made me want to dance I have always been more into my classical dance styles such as Ballet or Tap but after seeing the choreography in the Thriller video I wanted to learn more street dance/ pop dancing. Michael continued to release albums after albums and he won many awards for these he really was untouchable. It was mainly in the 80's when Michael was around more however his fans have always been loyal to him so when he decided to have a comeback tour called This is it, the fans were already cueing up for a ticket.
Michael inspires me because someone as big as himself can easily give just as much back the amount of charities he has given to, his love to help sick sick children, this guy has an amazing heart. Michael's song's are just amazing from Pop to RnB this man is very musically talented, as Dancer Michael was extremely disciplined and expected his backing dancer's to be the same, he would rehearse for hours to just get a movement or a sequence of moves right. I think that him always wanting to be the best and would always work hard to get there makes me want to strive to be the best, he makes me want to learn every dance style going to a professional level i would have loved to have been one of his backing dancers learning the amazing choreography that he had done himself, I did have a concert ticket for Michael Jackson's This Is It Tour and I am deeply saddened at the fact that I can no longer go. I am very upset that such talent has gone because if he was still here I know that he would still be great because talent like that cannot just simply disappear. Although Michael is no longer with us his music and dances still live on today and probably for generation's still to come as this is what makes him a legend.!!!!!!!!
Tuesday 27 October 2009
A Few People That I Admire!!!!!
Ok so I am really trying hard to think of people I admire but i find this really difficult as there is really no on that I admire but instead see that they do have some qualities or talent that should get more recognition for what they do but i will have to think long and hard as to who these people are.......Helppppppp me bloggers if you do not find it hard enough yourselves.!!!!
My 5 Top Resources!!!!!!!
Ok well here are some of my top resources that I find help me when either wanting to find information on audition's like where, when what kind of audition it is and what time it is or where I can find research information on the Performing Arts Sector.
My First Resource:
The Stage
The Stage is newspaper and also has a website that keeps you up to date with what is going on within the Performing Art's world. It gives you information on what kind of job or audition is being held and the kind of experience they are looking for it let's you know where these job's/ audition's are being held. You subscribe to The Stage, this makes it much easier keeping tab's on it as you know each week it will be sent to you so you do not miss out on the great opportunities being advertised.
My Second Resource:
You Tube for me is very useful when wanting to get inspired about perhaps composing a piece of music or wanting to choreograph a dance. I say this because on You Tube, you can search for video's on any topic,you click on what you want and can watch the video as many times as you like. It gives you a sense of what is going on in the Dance profession for instance and can give you many links/video's to the subject you are interested in by recognizing what you are into by the kind of video's you are searching for, so for me when wanting to get motivated or inspired I am always on youtube to help me with idea's.
My Third Resource:
Pineapple Studio's
Pineapple Studio's is a very well known place where you can keep up with your training for you specific Art such as Dance, I have been to Pineapple quite a few times and found it a really enjoyable experience not only was I able to keep my stamina up by doing the class but I did make a lot of useful friends who have the same interest as me and who would let me know when auditions where etc. I found that Pineapple Studio's can cater for every interest when it come to the Arts and you do no need to sign up for a membership as they do drop in classes which I find very useful indeed as it will not break my bank balance, the classes are quite cheap too being £6.00 a class which is not very much for something you feel passionate about, I think if you are looking to improve in certain area's for Performing Art's then Pineapple Studio's is the place to be.
My Fourth Resource:
Google
Google is a very powerful search engine and can let you search anything you want literally. It gives you all the websites and links that might have the information you are looking for, even if you type in a question/query Google would somehow be able to answer you or direct you to another link etc. I find Google useful when I am looking for a Dance class to go for and it gives me a list of all the types of Dance classes' running for the time I want or perhaps the area I am all depending on what I type into Google. You can practically get anything you want off Google from Images to Maps to News and even Shopping, so whatever you are looking for I am confident that Google would be able to help you.
My Fifth Resource:
Facebook
Yes like everyone else I have succumbed to the Facebook World, I find it amazing how a social networking site such as this has become so big in society and how it has become a part of everyday life. Facebook is good for keeping in contact with old and new friends as well as family however I do use Facebook for another reason which is networking specifically for Performing Arts, with Facebook you can join groups for dancing or acting etc that will tell you when auditions are and what they are looking for. It can also tell you what kind of jobs are out there in that field a little similar to The Stage.
Facebook allows you to add people so if you are looking for a particular person or maybe a particular dance group or actor then you can search for this person providing you know the name and add them, it is then up to that person if they would want to accept so you can end up building a list of improtant contacts for your chosen profession and can build a relationship with them as well.
Monday 12 October 2009
Education, Qualifications and Training..........Theatrical Experience.......
Education.......
Barnet College: 2007-2009, Foundation Degree, Merit
Hertford Regional College: 2002-2004, BTec National Dipolma, Dance, Distinction
Our Ladys Convent High School: 1999- 2003, 11 GCSC grades A-C and 3 A levels Grades B-C.
Qualifications......
Dance
Ballet: Grades 1- Advanced 1 level, Honours
Tap: Grades 1- Elementary, Honours
Modern: Grades 1 Elementary, Honours
Jazz: Grades 1- Advanced1 level, Honours
Music
Piano: Grades 1-7, Merit- Distinction
Guitar: ( No Exams) Grade 5 Standard
Drums: (No Exams) Grade 5 Standard
Training....
Dance
The Alberto School of Dance and Drama: 1988-2002
Hertford Regional College: 2002-2004
Drama
Barnet College 2007-2009
Theatrical Experience.......
Barnet College: Foundation Degree
2009: Call It!!, Student Performance, Character played: Domestic Engineer
2009: Make Your Mark, Student Performance, Character played: Various
2009: Breaking The Silence, Student Performance (FMP) Director and Writer
2008: FMP Rehearsed Readings Character played: Various
2008: Just A Perfect Day, Student Performance, Character played: Various
2008: The Flying Doctor, Student Performance, Character played: Mother
2007: The Doll's House, Student Performance, Character played: Ms Linde
Hertford Regional College: National Diploma
2004: Eclectic Dreams, Student Performance, Various Dances
2002: The Dance Compilation of 02, Student Performance, Various Dances
The Alberto School of Dance and Drama: Local Dance School (where I had done my dancing exams)
We had done around 22 shows one every christmas, sometime we had done 2 shows a year, but it was always called The Xmas Shows no real title for each year that I can remember anyway.
MY CV...
Personal Statement
From the tender age of three, like majority Kids that age I could not sit still I was alway's up dancing, because of this my parent's decided that it would be a good idea to send me to a local dance and drama school called The Alberto School of Dance and Drama.
At first I attended once a week but as my passion for Ballet overtook me, my lessons increased to everyday. I had undertaken many examination's in the following disciplines such as Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz starting from grade 1 up to advanced 1 level in IDTA. I found that through dancing I had become more confident within myself as an person, and this gave me the inspiration to explore my creative side which lead me on to study musical instrument's.
I had started to learn to play the Piano when i was just seven year's old at first I found it really enjoyable but as time grew I found it more interesting that i was able to read note's and this enabled me to be able to compose some music which i thoroughly loved. I attained up to grade seven in Piano. When I reached secondary school for the years 7-9 I tried my hand at playing the Guitar although I did not take any exams for the Guitar like I had fro the Piano, I did enjoy expanding my knowledge for another instrument. It is only now that I have started to play the Guitar again, well actually I am teaching myself how to play the Electric Guitar and I hope that I can really excel at this. Towards the end on of teenage life, I started to learn how to play the Drums, I absoultely loved banging on this instrument and felt that whenever I was stressed out playing on the Drums gave me a great sense of relief and really let my anger out on it, I also enjoyed the rhythm's I could make up or the fact that I could play the beat for a song and just go along with the song with what I felt was right.
After a couple of years studying academic subject's such as English or Science I was finally able to go back to studying the subject I loved which was Dance, I had studied this at Hertford Regional College, going back to Dance was hard as my body was out of condition and I struggled to get my stamina was back (I had forget how important stamina was for any type of dance style) as well as my body aching for two long weeks. At college I picked up two new disciplines being Contemporary Dance which is very similar to Ballet and Street-Dance (Hip-Hop). I have to say although I am glad I studied a new dance style but I did not enjoy or like Contemporary Dance and even now I still am not a fan of it. Studying Street- Dance gave me another direction to let my emotion's out and I found immense pleasure and enjoyment studying it, I achieved a BTec National Diploma with Distinction in Dance.
From there I applied for various universities to study Dance such as Lipa ( Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), Urdang Academy, Brunel, however many of these universities had Contemporary as the core subject, which did not really interest me. I even applied to stage school but injured my knee at the audition's because of this I was forced to change paths to Drama, I studied this at Barnet College gaining a foundation degree the grade being a merit (which is equivalent to a 2:1) getting this grade has enabled me to carry onto my third year for my BA degree at Middlesex University. When I first started the Drama course at Barnet College I was a nervous wreck acting as this is not a strong point for me as I tend to hold back in area's that I personally do not feel good at. Before this point I had not really acted except in little school play's, so do it on a more professional level terrified me I even thought was this the right course for me, however during the two years of the foundation degree, I found myself enjoying acting but I also felt that I was not that bad after all, I just needed to believe in myself a bit more. I felt that starting this course at Barnet had made me look at myself more and made me think that I should not be afraid to try new thing's, it also built up my confidence to apply for the Work Based Learning BA at Middlesex University. Although I have not done anything professional yet as in TV work or Music Video's I feel that I can handle anything that is thrown my way as long as I believe in myself.
I am really looking forward to broaden my horizon's and knowledge within the Work Based Learning course and although I am a little nervous as I am used to my previous tutor's telling me what to do etc and I know that this course is more self driven so I will have to be self motivated, I know that our new tutor's are there to help me it is more about how you cope and tackle all your fears and getting used to doing things for yourself
I am really excited about the next chapter in my life and I do feel that anything is possible.
Thursday 8 October 2009
does anyone know how to put their C.V up getting a little confused here lol, you can add it as a post right??, well I am going to have a go and see but if any of you can guide me that would be much appreciated, as they say, well as Tesco says: Every Little Helpsss!!!!!.....(Sori could not help myself so use to saying that from work lol). THANKS!!!!!
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Induction.....
Kelly
I am Kelly Coiffic-Kamall, who has been studying performing arts for a quite a while now. I have studied all three sectors of the Arts such as Dance, Drama, Music although I have found that I have immense passion for Dance. I do enjoy Music and Drama and I am always willing to work hard in order to achieve high success. I do find that I lack self esteem in the subject's that I am not to comfortable in such as Drama, I have a tendency to hold back in these subject's instead of just letting go. This is something that I need to overcome for myself.
Rosea
I am Rosea, and I have been studying performing arts for a long time, and like Kelly I have enjoyed studying each subject and found that Drama was my calling, I found this out when I attended Chicken Shed Theatre Company and found myself really getting involved although i do enjoy Dance I found that i was more comfortable whilst acting then dancing and would tend to be more nervous dancing then acting. I do really enjoy Music aswell and playing instruments and furthered my knowledge and love for it.
Skill's of Each of Us
Kelly on Rosea
I found that Rosea is a very friendly girl who has learnt to adjust to her surroundings for example she moved from Nottingham to London with her family to pursue her love for performing arts, so I think that she can adapt to anything that is thrown her way.
Rosea on Kelly
When I met Kelly I found that she is quite a chatty girl, who has a love for Dance and Music but is quite nervous about her acting skills. I think that she knows what she wants from life and knows what she is good at and what she is not so good at however she is willing to learn to make herself better.
Personal Interest
Kelly
I am really interested in learning different instruments and have already studied three although I would like to learn more, I was also in the Sea Cadet Corps until I became an Officer there but had to stop because it clashed with Karate, I like to do the normal things anyone my age would do such as Clubbing, Cinema, Eating and Drinking out with friends, Facebook lol, and RELAXING!!!!!.
Rosea
I also study playing instruments which I do enjoy, and I do like meet new people. Over the years I have become like the rest of my youth and succumbed to the normal interests we do and like which is, Going out with friends, Cinema, Shopping, and like Kelly FACEBOOK!!!.
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