Welcome back from break! I hope everyone had a wonderful time, full of exactly what you needed to reboot for the las stretch of the semester. I'm excited to see those of you that I'll see today, today and everyone else on Thursday evening. Below I've included detailed notes on choreography, lights, and sound. Shannon, I'll send a separate note about programs later today.
If any of the information below is unclear, please feel free to contact me anytime. If you have questions about scheduling/when you should be where, please contact Alexandra.
Here's all the information!
Video Links:
Video #1
Video #2
Choreography Notes:
Video #1
5:33 – Instead of the shoulder drop happening at 5:33, it should happen at 5:35 (listen for beat)
5:50 – in the hands shaking on the belly, they should move downwards on your body.
5:58 – the head look should be over the shoulder at the person behind ou.
6:10 – be sure to avoid cutting corners in the walk around the circle
6:21 – try to aim for everyone to be in place to turn to the front by 6:21 so you have a couple of moments of wait before starting the finger phrase
6:23 – on the first two small kicks, we should all be looking forward
6:54 – take a small hair longer of settling/breathing before beginning the cable table phrase
6:55 – for all of cable table, try to think about staying in the circle
8:00 – cable pulls look great, let’s aim to walk in time with each other as we walk to get new pieces of table, roughly in the same rhythm as we did in cable phrase, so let’s be sure to keep an eye on each other.
9:00 – Ian, aim to have the pull of the cable from behind motivating each step forward on the cable. It takes a little while, but that’s okay. When you have excess cable, just wrap it around yourself in a comfortable and efficient way.
9:29 – wherever the plug heads are, wait until we’ve all arrived in a tangle before moving to plug them in, and when we begin plugging, aim to move the plug heads to the front of the clump so the audience can see what we’re doing.
9:40 – when we turn to walk out of the cable clump, walk briskly like Alex and Molly demonstrate in the video
10:27 – let’s try to remove this first handstand and just do the box pushing one
11:11 – Alex, aim to walk in time with Shannon
12:27 – if there might be a way to emphasize the sweeping feeling versus the clearing/cleaning out of the way feeling in the cable cleaning bit here, that would be great
17:12 – Ian and Angela, try to reduce the wait time between each jump by avoiding pausing at the turn in each running circle
17:24 – let’s aim to work on this one a couple of times
17:25 – Molly and Alex come in running here
We’ll work on Rivendell specifically to clarify timing in person so I won’t include it here.
Video #2
2:37 – Shannon and Hannah, try to aim to have this be where you stand up to take the cables around the outsides of the boxes. Begin walking in the awkward butt-out walks with the rest of the dancers once you’re up, and then into thoracic spine walks when the other dancers do too.
5:21 – cable holders, please make sure to hold enough tension in the cable to ensure that the cable winds up around Shannonand Angela’s hips (versus thighs)
5:40 – men hold arms out with cables so women can walk through them
5:41 – in general, men aim to walk with a brisk pace in time to the music and make the direction of each step clear.
6:18 – remember that we decided to melt into a goopy pile here
6:38 – I like that we all have different bows!
Lighting Notes:
Video #1:
13:01 – if there might be a way to light Hannah just with stage right sidelights, that would be fabulous
13:48 – then in this moment to open out to the more spacious lighting
15:46 – in the video, I’m not sure if this is a light change or not to more orangey, but if it is, I like it! If not, if it would be possible to go slightly more orangey here, that would be great
17:06 – it looks like there was a lighting change at 17:01, but if it could be shifted to 17:06 that would be great
18:29 – if this stage left sidelight could have no orange, that would be great
19:57 – if this light could now shift to the bluish hue you used before for the cable pulls, that would be great
Video #2:
1:00 – if the lights could now switch back to non bluish, that would be great
3:24 – surrounding lights dim somewhat and spots come on
15:17 – surrounding lights get somewhat brighter and spots dim
16:23 – lights dim to black out, 5 seconds black, lights up for bows
Sound Notes:
Video #1:
7:38 – I couldn’t quite hear the sound for this part in the video, so just a reminder that the industrial chugging sound should start here, even if it takes 30 seconds or so to warm up to full speed
12:45 – the moment Shannon sits down, if the chewing could cut out, that would be great
12:46 – Nocturne starts
18:24.5 – by the time the chewing sound you hear in the track ends, the chewing should cut out. Dancers will aim to listen for the end of that chew, at which point, the will turn and begin walking backwards.
18:48 – at this point in the choreography, if the Vangelis song could start, that would be great
Video #2:
00:49 – I think here, Vangelis should aim to cut out (men running)
1:00 – and here, the “Telephones and Rubberbands” song should come in
6:24 – or whenever the body pile melt is about to come to and end, sound begins to fade, after 5 seconds it comes in again for bows.
Thank you so much and until soon! We're almost there and it looks amazing!
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