Unit 14 Dance performance

 In my evaluation, I will be discussing my 5 strengths and 5 weaknesses within Bollywood dance from the rehearsal to the final performance.  My strengths  One skill I feel I have improved on is my coordination. Due to Bollywood having a lot of movements which are most of the time going on at the same time means I had to work hard to master this. I had always felt it a slight struggle to simultaneously move two body parts at the same time but because I knew it was such a huge factor in Bollywood dance, I knew that I needed to work hard to help bring our Bollywood performance come to life. I feel the more I worked on this over the course of our rehearsals, the more it helped me when it came to our final performance. When doing our final performance, I could confidently coordinate my movements and making them seamless.  Another skill I feel I have improved on is my confidence within this style. When first finding out we were going to learn a Bollywood dance, I...

 Final performance of Bollywood Dance  1.1- Style  During the rehearsals and final performance of Bollywood, we had to ensure we maintained full focus throughout to really embody the style to enhance our representation of Bollywood dance. Due to this style being completely new to me, I found this a challenge at the start with the quick pace and intricate movements, specifically the mudras (hand gestures). I found these a challenge as I feel I focused on how exact and precise my fingers needed be so much that I made a simple mudra seem so much harder than it actually needed to be. For our first few rehearsals, we focused a lot on the mudras to help us become more confident to allow us to multi task on both the mudras and the choreography to enhance our performance. Another technique we had to focus on was our feet positioning, I found this much easier than the mudras as I the feet positioning was only ever out in first or in parallel with the odd positioning of second. The...