Recent Performing Arts lessons

The last few weeks in performing arts we had been practising constantly for our cabaret performance which we were asked to perform in by the music department. As a group we all thought that performing a different style of dance other than disco street and contemporary would be a great idea, therefore we decided that we would dance to the song 'All that jazz' from Chicago. This would also be our piece of evidence for all of our jazz assignments. As we did not have enough time to create a whole dance from scratch before the performance, we decided that we would use our dance that we had choreographed a while back for our assignment, the only change we made is that we took the singing out and focused all on the dancing as this is what we would be marked on! As soon as we started playing the music we remembered almost most of the dance apart from the odd bit which we changed anyway to make it more dance based. As a group we could not forget the fact that we had to keep the Chicago style and small effective fosse movements. At the beginning of the dance we all walk on in character into a straight line behind one anther facing to the side, we then all move in sync as this looks very effective and fits in well with the style as there's a lot of group work included.
Towards the end of the dance the music became very strong and rather fast therefore we decided this was a great time to use a prop so we went and got a chair which we danced around as well as stood up on top of it and carried on dancing. Once again we made sure that this was all kept in the style of fosse such as using small yet effective hand and feet movements, strong walks and big kicks.
I found this dance very entertaining and fun to learn. I felt as if I got into the beat. Although to the people watching it may not look very hard, it in fact is a hard dance to perform as you have to make sure that every little move you do is in time and done correctly otherwise you will stand out straight away and will not look effective like it should do.
Personally I enjoyed using the chairs as props the most but also I liked the part of it where we all formed a diagonal line and done our kicks at the same time as well as some strange fosse movements that I had never seen or performed before.