Busy, Busy, Busy

Hi everyone :)

 

 It’s beginning to look like a very busy week here in the flight effect studio; we have got so much going on with preparing for our upcoming tour of our piece Moon eaters. 

  Yesterday we took a trip to Yorkshire dance where we were given the opportunity to hear from past York St John graduates and find out about how they started a career in the dance profession. This was certainly helpful to us as we were able to ask any questions we had about getting ourselves out in the dance world whether it is performing, teaching or administration work; there was some one there to give us advice about how to achieve it. 

 After a morning at Yorkshire dance hearing about kick starting a career in the dance industry, we then went over to Northern studios home of both Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre, where we were given the opportunity to watch a company rehearsal of Phoenix’s upcoming Triple Bill performance pieces included in this performance are ‘Undivided loves, Until. With/ Out. Enough and Melt’ which is being performed from the 17^th- 20^th February at the West Yorkshire Play House. This was an inspiring visit as we were able to see how a professional company works in rehearsals, as well as being given a flavor of the intense rehearsal period of being in a professional company. This experience meant we were able to compare how a professional company works during rehearsals to our own company. This opportunity has also given us different things that we were able to take away and apply to our own rehearsals, so we are ready for when we graduate York St John and start auditioning for jobs and companies. 

 During our Flight Effect Rehearsal today we had two film and TV students, come in and watch the piece to discuss the filming the piece so we are able to create a trailer that can be used in marketing the performance to both venues and audiences. During this rehearsal we had the opportunity to work on some of the important notes that Dimitri had given us from our Skype rehearsal that we had with him last week. One of the sections we worked on today was changing a transition from the ending of the intense head dance into the Ritual dance. Once we had worked on this section we did a full out run through to ensure that this new transition would work, after we had done the run through we were given notes that we need to work on in further detail in the next rehearsal. 

Tomorrow we will be working on the educational workshops that we will be delivering to schools during our tour. This is to ensure all company members know what is going on in the workshop if they have to help assist the workshop leaders. 

Next week we will be filming Moon eaters ready for the release of our trailer. 

For more information about Phoenix’s upcoming performance and to book go to http://www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk/

 

And don’t forget to keep checking out our Facebook, twitter and Instagram pages for daily updates, as well as the website www.flighteffect.co.uk for more information about the company. 

Until Next Time

Helen and Steph :) X