VARSITY: Judges comments

Ok, here are the tapes... there is a lot that I think we can fix by you guys becoming aware and you guys individually taking a look at if you are doing it or not. Here is the comments from the judge!

Here is what the Equipment judge said.
Sabre's check the matching of your arm shape during the whole dance part at the beginning (the arm with the sabre).

Individual consistency in the individual sabre tosses. Be consistent with heights, release points, catches (both hand placements, body placement, solidness, etc.).

Very exposed in sets. Easy to see who is on, who is off. This can go with body and equipment, you need to make sure you look just like everyone else.

Timing and tension in the rifle feature. Are you doing it on time with the same amount of intensity as everyone else.

Bat control. The bats are smaller and lighter, it's easy for the bat to get out of control. You control the bat the bat doesn't control you.

Quartet (nuff said)... we are going to look at this, each part needs to look the same from performer to performer.

Natalee, he felt you caught just a bit early musically, we'll look at this.

The dreaded angle at the end. Remember Hit - Hit... it needs to be sharp!

He loved you guys!

Here's what the General Effect judge said. 

He liked the characterization at the beginning. But multiple judges said that the characterization needed to be bigger. Especially the running part, that needed to show through what is happening in front of it... In fact all movement needs to be more committed to and bigger.

The judge talked about follow through. Committing to each move you are doing and make sure you follow through to the end of the phrase.

He liked the characterization you as performers had. Keep pushing that characterization up to the audience! This needs to happen through out the whole performance, all the way to the end.

At the end ensemble flag he said we needed to check our space from one another. We will look at this on wednesday or thursday. But we need to make sure that each of us are moving the same amount and that the space is consistent from performer to performer.

He talked about tying things together and following through phrases a lot. that means committing to the end of the work, toss, dance move, just as much as you are the first part. Also, don't mentally go on to the next phrase when you haven't completed the one you are on.

Here's what the Movement judge said.

Heals together at the line at the first part of the show. She said some people weren't all the way to first position. You could check this at the other line too.

There is a jump turn thing that the front line (during the dance work does) and she said to watch that and make sure you are all doing it the same way.

She talked about the grand plié. making sure that you match your heals and that they lift the same time. that your heals are together. etc. We'll look at this.

The weird heal, toe, heal foot move. She talked about the timing on that. And she said that we need to make sure that the timing of that needs to be together.

She talked about how movement needs to be consistent from performer to performer. This means our arms, feet, limbs, body facings need to all be the same.

She talked about how sometimes it looks cluttered. she said that you can tell that you know the choreography but the articulation (the way you are achieving the work) is not being fulfilled. So we need to make sure that the work is being done full out and in the same time as everyone else.

She said that the timing could get muddy in parts. Meaning it's not quite together.

Her exact words, "careful with the cartwheel there."

consistency in the end position. We need to be the same.

here is what the Ensemble Analysis judge said.

Freeze them during the gongs at the beginning. The judge said that he can see people still moving in the line.

check what is going on individually in the quartet. he was able to look from performer to performer and could tell they weren't together or doing the same thing.

All performers need to fulfill the body under the ensemble flag. (the movement judge thought we were doing a good job with this) But the ensemble judge said we needed to commit to it. So we should ALL make sure that we are doing the body full out under our work.

Need to look the same at the end. (This is the second judge to have said that) And me and jenny have talked about this multiple times with you! Where is the weight? where is our hand on the hat? where are we looking? AGAIN, where is the weight???