All That Jazz Professional Analysis

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William Burrows – AS Performing Arts – C Block – 24/11/2009

All That Jazz Professional Analysis

In our lesson today we watched a video on the performers of Chicago on Broadway and we watched them perform but we also saw behind the scenes rehearsals. We were told to look at the video and comment upon their professionalism of the actors. We did this to enable us to see what sort of industry the performing arts industry is, and how hard it is to work in. We were reviewing this also to see what professional tips we could get from seeing this video, to take into our own future performance. In this analysis I will look at 3 key elements of the video, and apply them to our performances.

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Firstly I would like to say that I reviewed the tempo of the video. The actors were constantly getting stopped by the directors because they were doing something wrong, but tempo is so quick that the actors are constantly working and trying to do everything perfectly. The actor’s hours are around 6 hours a day so to work at that intensity and to have that energy really surprised us all. The actual performance of All That Jazz had a great fluidity to it, and didn’t make any constant stops. This meant that the performance was top class and good enough ...

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