Magical Mr Mistoffelees

The dance I chose to choreograph was Magical Mr Mistoffelees I chose this because it's my characters main dance song. I sound this song challenging to choreograph as choreography is not my strongest point. However, by the time the show came around it went very well, and matched in well with the story line, as that was a fear of mine.

In the dance I started it by marking out individual duets and group dances which I felt is the way the dance would work most effectively. The dance began by my character Mr Mistoffelees bringing down Old Deuteronomy as in the story line I have just found him. The others applaud and welcome my presence, this continues whilst duets sing to me. A choreographic device I used here was repetition, the main chunk of the first half is based around acting. This had to be done because it needed to link with the storyline adaptation.

Then all of us go to to the back of the stage and go into there individual group dances, the concept of this dance changed. I started it being a catwalk show to show off my magical creations but that didn't work alongside the Old Deuteronomy storyline so we just made that as a motif to tie in the fashion industry adaptation.

Throughout this song I wanted to have hip-hop elements too it, so when I came down with the boys I choreographed a short sequence of hip-hop movements as this went in with the music change and the personalities of the boys characters. In this part of the song we made out for this short hip-hop stylised part to be a bit like a dance off. Then everyone comes onto the stage and does a dance phrase. The motif of this was magic and mystery.

The strengths and weaknesses from this dance:

The weaknesses and things that could have been improved on was the tightness of the movements and I would further develop the dance off hip-hop part as I felt this needed further rehearsing. Hopefully, by the time the show came it still looked very effective. Also I felt when I was standing at the back of the stage on the staging blocks I felt this was too static, as all we did was stand left and right whilst clicking our fingers. This helped bring atmosphere and played a chorus role, to keep the beat up and energy going. However, I felt this could have been developed.

The strengths I felt were the group dances, they were strong and well executed. As they broke through when each group came to perform which I felt looked visually effective.