Ensemble Skills

All of these things are essential to make a good ensemble performance, all of these skills are part of team work and allow an ensemble to work together well to create a successful performance. For example everyone needs to have respect for each other and each others ideas, this is important so that everyone can focus on their performance. Each person needs to be able to share their ideas so that  things have a chance to be developed to create a more interesting performance, Everyone has different ideas which is important to make sure that performances don't become too similar and things are more diverse. Each person in the ensemble needs to be as committed as each other so that rehearsals can be focused and things are created and practiced smoothly, as well as each member needs to be open minded to be able to explore new things and not be afraid to fail.

Last year I think that my determination was good, I felt that even though I was faced with different challenges in different projects I was able to move past them and work hard on my performance. I think this is a key skill to have because as a performer there are many challeneges that are both mental and physical that you need to be able to move past to succeed. As well as this, last year I explored my creativity especially when choreographing movement, i believe that this is another key skill to have as it is important that everyone in an ensemble gives ideas so that the performance can be diverse and well developed. I want to continue to work on this, this year and try to expand it more to come up with more ideas that can be used in rehearsals. However this year I need to make sure that i am enthusiastic during all rehearsals, this is because i think that it is important that each member of the company is positive so that all ideas can be explored and therefore interesting material can be made to create a successful performance. I do not feel as though last year i was as positive and entusiatic as i should have been along with others and therefore some rehearsals were harder as not everyone was giving their all and been open to new things. As well as this, reflecting on last year i need to work on my communication skills during the rehearsal process. I think that it is important that when someone is unhappy with something that is happening during a process they need to be able to communicate this in a way that can be solved easily. This allows the rehearsal process to be able to move forward successfully, as well as this communication is vital to share new ideas that can develop a project.