Contemporary Dance Homework.....helpp?

Contemporary dance help?

• I want to become a west-end actress, and so ideally I need to take Drama, Music and Dance for GCSE, but, I am also taking academic subjects to fall back on (I want to be a drama teacher as my backup career-my parents both are teachers) so, basically I am dropping dance. There has been an option to take a FAST-TRACK GCSE course in dance, I love dancing but quit dancing out of school for personal reasons and now, I'm not flexible and as fit as I was back then, but I still remember most of my ballet and modern moves and I've been revising from videos and books. However, this option is a very hard and quick course with only 4 lessons a fortnight at school, and to make sure I am able to cope with this fast course, she is holding CONTEMPORARY group auditons, where she teaches us all a small part of dancing and we have to perform it back to her so she can assess if we are ready and up for doing this. As I said before, I have stopped dancing and although contempary is a mix of ballet and modern dancing which I have studied for years, I have never actually done specifically CONTEMPORARY dance and I am very rusty on my moves! I am going to be rejoining my dancing classes and I have got in contact with a dance group who also do troupe work and show work. I need helpful links, videos, tips on what I can do to shine out at this audition and prove that I am ready to do dance, even though I haven't done it in a few years. Thankyou so much, and any helpful advice would be great! I want to do this as a career so badly, and I am now trying to think long term, so thanks to anyone who answers!

• Answer:

  If you want to work on stage, you MUST be "triple-threat". If you've let your dancing slip, get right back in there, NOW! The GCSE courses may be fun. But as an aspiring professional you need to be doing much more besides, and at a higher level than a school course. What opportunities are there in your area?