In the first half of rehearsal, the class worked to perfect sections of their routine and learn choreography. They brainstormed as a group to add to the ending. The document's author struggled with finishing moves correctly but plans to practice the video to improve. In the second half, they learned the chorus lines seated. They talked through the script, then practiced with backing music. The author's strength was projecting their voice during this segment since they had pre-learned the song. One goal was to project their voice, which they focused on during singing and felt they succeeded at. Another goal was being on time, which they mostly achieved but sometimes rushed endings while focusing on the next section.

1. Hamilton -Introduction to Context and Character
In today's rehearsal we split the lesson up into two parts. One half was to further complete the
routine and perfect some sections that were messy and the other half was to sit down and learn and
memorise the lines of the chorus. My targets for today were to ensure I was projecting my voice,
making sure I was on time with every move and contributing ideas to finish off the piece.
To start the rehearsal we all, as a class, performed a warmup, ensuring all parts of our body were
warmed up, including our voice. This is important as warming up stretches out your muscles and
helps to prevent injury. Properly warming your voice up also ensures you don’t strain your voice, or
damage it, along with allowing you to reach higher notes with far more ease. We then worked as a
class to add more to the ending of the routine. We did this by all sitting round, when we got to a
new part, and brainstormed ideas of what could fit best for everyone, along with fitting the music.
Every time we came up with a new section, we would go over the bit before it (with the music) and
carry on to the end of what we had just done. This allowed us to help perfect the parts we had
previously learnt the lesson before. Overall, a strength of mine was being able to pick up the newer
parts of the routine, as I have a quite good memory and have a small background in dance and
learning routines previously. However, one weakness I seemed to struggle with was making sure I
finished off the moves correctly. This is important to make sure that the routine looks polished and
not rushed, as it would look messy and unprofessional if it were like this. It would also cause me to
stick out to the audience as everyone would be perfectly in time with each other and would perform
the moves correctly, except for me, causing the performance to look less effective. To ensure that
this will not be the case, I will go over a video we took of the dance today and practise each of the
new moves, to make sure I finish them properly and in time with the music. I will also video myself
back to further ensure that I will perfectly have the moves mastered.
In the second half of the lesson, we sat down round the board, with the director and learnt the lines
for the chorus. This is an essential part to know, as the singing from the chorus is what brings a
whole performance together, and without it, it can cause a routine to look and sound boring. To
begin with we were all given a script and we talked through the lines, with the leads, so we knew
where to come in. We then went through the script again, however this time we had a backing track
playing the music, along with the chorus. Once doing this a couple times, we had correctly learnt
when to come in for our parts. Therefore lastly, we went through the song again with just the
backing track, with the leads singing their roles and the chorus doing ours. We were then set to go
off out of lesson and memorise the words for the next rehearsal, ready to perform it alongside the
rest of the routine.
A strength of this lesson is that I think as a class we collectively worked very well with each other,
which allowed us to make lots of progress in the making of the routine. Another strength was my
ability to project my voice during the rehearsal for the chorus. I had previously familiarised myself
with the song, prior to the lesson, so I knew the majority of the words anyway. This allowed me to
focus on my projection during the lesson, instead of focussing on learning the words, which was the
case for many of my peers.
One of my SMART targets for the lesson was to project my voice, which I have struggled on
previously. I think I succeeded in this, as throughout the singing segment of the lesson, I made sure I
was focussing on getting my voice loud enough for everyone to hear. Throughout the segment I
made sure to always be engaged and always know what part of the song we were going to start
from. A second one of my SMART targets was to always be on time, in the routine. I think I
somewhat succeeded this target as I was on time for the start of each section, however when I was
trying to remember the next part of the routine, I would sometimes not finish the previous part as I
was focussing too hard on remembering the next section.