Performance prep: Tomorrow Choreography Today we worked on our performance choreography for our 2nd song: "More or less". We started our lesson by going over everything we did on our last song, "Madonna Nana", when we added our microphone stand. The more Abbie gets comfortable with the performance technique we are adding, the more she is able to maintain her awesome placement that we've worked so hard on - connecting the two the more we practice! She has the microphone stand moves down - so now we practice them over and over while maintaining our vocal placement to make it second nature for her. We are building and adding each lesson (and will brush up over skype), so that Abbie is comfortable doing all of our performance technique and choreography, while maintaining her vocal placement - and adding another focus - an audience. After we brushed up on our microphone technique, we started our performance technique for a mid-tempo song with no mic stand: As we did with our microphone stand technique, we worked on 3 different moves for our body to rotate through as we sing our song. Reset/ base performance position: our confident stance with our shoulders down, our feet shoulder width apart, knees straight and feet facing forward is what we use to reset out technique. Every time we move into a different position with our feet or our hands - we will always come back to this position. The reason for this, is it keeps us from slouching, or looking nervous (even if we are), it shows command of a stage, helps us feel more steady, and gives us something easy to do that looks powerful and strong! Arms: For our arm movement, we keep it simple as well. We have 4 different positions that we rotate through - doing slight variations of each of them as we move through our song. They are: Forward, Side, In, and Up. As we move through these positions, it's important to have strong arms so that our movement doesn't look sloppy. Practicing each of these moves and the transitions between them will help our performance look and feel natural - while allowing us to not have to think about what the heck we're supposed to do with our arms, and keeping us from doing the same one arm movement over and over again. Legs/ Feet: For our leg and feet movement, we rotate our angles slightly and reset into our base performance position. Once we get to these different angles, we can re-step our feet or use our heels for rhythmic movement, and shift our weight from foot to foot to add movement in general. This re-step, angle our feet, and re-set movement that we add to our legs and feet help open up our performance to look and feel like we're performing for a larger audience. It helps us look more in tune with our audience - and more natural in front of a crowd.