Cats Audition

For my cats audition i had to sing 2 songs one upbeat song and one slow song, they also had to have been composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. We also had to choreograph a dance to cats music. At the end of the audition we will be have a short interview about the character you want are auditioning for.
For my upbeat song i chose 'My Favourite Things' from the sound of music i chose this song as i love the character who sings it so being able to portray her character i have fun and exciting. Also i chose to do it acapella this allowed me to have to option to change key if wanted to and tempo; however i didn't adapt the song as its in the right key for my voice. I also decided to do it acapella as i felt more comfortable doing it like that as i had rehearsed with a backing track.

For my slow song i chose 'Where is Love?' from Oliver. I chose this song as it was very contrasting to my upbeat song. It was a child who originally sung the song allowing me to explore different ages when singing both songs showing i can do a variety. The only concern i had for this song is that it was sung by a boy and i didn't know whether they would like or agree with me singing as a female, but as it was a young boy the key is in the same as a female voice. I sang where is love acapella i considered doing it with backing and practiced with backing but felt that i could take the song at my pace.

When choreographing my cats dance i always tried to bare in mind cat characteristics so i could try get into character as much as possible. Portraying cat characteristics makes it believable to the audience what animal you are representing.  I did my dance to the song 'Jellicle Ball For Jellicle Cats' its a main dance number in cats and loved the upbeat tempo. The stimulus for my dance was Jazz and Cats the Musical, i tried to include as many choreographic devices as i could. I'm not an experienced dancer and found choreographing a dance challenging but i tried my best to get a sequence together. I did this by adapting certain movements from the original cats the musical dance and then just using the stimulus and characterisation to help build my dance. I felt i could have used a few more devices such as retrograde and change in tempo. The biggest challenge i found when choreographing was making the dance piece have and highlight and climax as i wasn't sure how to create this, whether by changing devices if that would help. I structured my dance on the ABA structure however when i performed it for my audition i messed up the ending completely which meant that the ABA structure didn't take place which i was annoyed about but can learn from this in the future. For the future i also would have worked on successfully portraying to the audience the characteristics built up from the stimulus.

Below is the link to my dance audition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIc1AtP-Go

Below is the link to a video of my group rehearsal practice for my cats audition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0kAo95fZ3c