Jazz Pumps and Warm Up's. Hello Year Two!

Day one. Second year. Hasn't time flown by!

We all started off the day doing a two hour physical and vocal warm up with Nick and Michael which turned out to be incredibly tiring, yet very, very fun! Coming back to uni with a pot belly and excess weight that has been gained over the summer, I must say it was pretty refreshing to get back into the usual Uni routine and starting off with those warm up's and work outs was just what I needed.

As well as doing several activities to get our bodies warmed up, we were all split into pairs (year one with a year two). Our task was to massage each other to release any tension in the body. It was a very calm and relaxing way to get to know one another and gain a sense of trust with the other person.
The vocal warm up was also very beneficial. Although, I'm not very confident with my singing voice it allows me to widen and experiment with my vocal projection as I'm naturally a very shy and quiet person.


After the warm up we had the whole day with Nick. We were all asked to think of a number of personal stuff to write on a piece of paper anonymously. Such as:

• One positive and one negative thing about ourselves
• Something we've thought about frequently in the mornings when we wake up

This task was incredibly interesting as the whole class were somewhat able to delve into people's thoughts. The fact it was all anonymous was also intriguing as it cause a sense of mysteriousness with the person and how their mind thinks and functions.
I can't really remember what I wrote for the first part of the activity but for the second part about the first thought when waking up in the morning I wrote down :
"What the heck am I going to be doing in ten years time"


Afterwards, Nick chose one of our answers and in groups, we had to create a piece that was based on the persons answer to what they thought about in the mornings.