Dancing in the 4th Act: Smoothing rough edges / july 21, 23, 26

july 21

Only seniors today, with Randy standing in for everybody under 19. After a couple of stabs at Yo Tengo, which is really called Naci en El Alamo ( I was born in El Alamo ), we moved on to the Cell Dance. A couple of us thought there was snapping of fingers in this piece, only to find out that the snapping is in Burlesque. The Cell Dance has the clump section. Nat got a lesson in keeping his head up while reaching out with his arms and Terry listened for the beat.

Randy demonstrates

Terry listens

Nat reaches while keeping head up

Student and teacher

Randy worked on the chair piece with the guys; Sally and Grace standing in for Zack and Stuart caused some gender confusion with Phil but he figured out who he really was in the end. Here is the video clip: Walking, Talking, Falling

Great hilarity ensued....

Pauline proved to be a fast starter in her 'looking for a chair piece' and had to be physically restrained by Susan.

Pauline finally sits down

Grace learns to slump

Wayne and Terry crack themselves up

Wayne not impressed by royal wave

This is the walking part:

We did get to the snapping fingers dance, otherwise known as Burlesque. Here's the video link: Burlesque
The chief angel lost in thought, or possibly just lost.

uh, what do we do now?

july 23

Back to King's this afternoon with a few teens. Randy runs the piece from beginning to end with a few unfinished pauses.
Here is the video link to the Cell Phone dance: Cell Phone Dance

It's all about the chairs

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Nat

Video link for Burlesque: Burlesque

Melanie & Maggie-Rene

Ben, Pauline, & Sally

5 young, 5 mature

The Teen Angel rehearsal was followed by a mercifully short DITTA run-through. Randy said we had about 70% recall. Hmmmm..... The stage left side of the wave disintegrated into a tangle of arms, Grace thought she was a man, Susan fell asleep on stage and had to be carried off in hysterics, so we have some work to do!

Prior to the run-through Randy brought everyone up to speed on our tour dates and the Kickstarter campaign. Get your mailing lists ready, please. If you have some potential close friend donors in mind, give them a heads up about the launch August 3. The carrot is Wayne's beautiful luminous painting being offered to the first person to donate $3500 or more.

july 26

Visitors today: Pam's niece Sally and her 5 year old daughter Evangeline and Melissa's daughter Bronwen, who studied dance with Pam and Randy. We did it all, worked on spacing, smoking, and a few private moments.