Music music and more music. Can you guess what we worked on today. Blocking, no wait, you were right. Music. I know we needed it, and do still need to go and work on some of the music, but I am getting antsy about staging this thing.
We have a week until we present this piece, and we wont be having rehearsals at least one of those days. If we do end up having Saturday rehearsal (which I am all in favor of) we will be missing several people as they cannot get off work. This would be fine if we made up for it by having later rehearsals all week, which had been discussed earlier, but it is looking like we wont be staying late. I am a bit puzzled by this. Well we shall see how the week progresses, panic always does wonders for peoples motivation!
Tomorrow we start buckling down on the staging. And at the end of every day we will do a run through of the material. I believe that's when we will start cutting stuff as well. Right now we have a 2 hour and 20 minute show. That's an hour longer than our time slot. So quite a lot is going to have to go. Everyone is getting quite nervous about this. No one wants to get attached to a piece to find out that it wont go in the show. And we are all understandably worried about getting our fair share of attention. I hope that with a more impartial eye than our own the cuts will be equitable. There are many reasons in favor of keeping and cutting material, some of which may not be known to us currently. And who knows if things are weighted in one direction now they may shift the other way when we get to the showcase or the contemporary show. We really have no way of knowing. I just have to force myself to trust the decisions being made and not let myself get stressed by any of this. Really the important thing is that I am doing the work for myself. As long as I am continually working and improving then I am getting my monies worth, and shouldn't get upset about casting. Easier said than believed, but I have to keep trying.
We are starting to think ahead for the next unit. After Christmas we come back to work on our performance research projects. I have been approached by two fabulous ladies to join them in their project, which is terribly exciting. I think the three of us will work quite well together. Topics are no where near being decided on, but there are some neat ideas floating around. Starting to get excited. I do need to buckle down and work on my own paper first. I want to have a solid draft written before I arrive home at Christmas so I can spend my time with my family and not panicking about writing. That may mean that most of the paper is written on the plane ride home, but hey that's 8 solid hours where I cant wander off and procrastinate! This evening I am going to focus on reading some of the research I have gathered in hopes that it will do me some good. Goal for this weekend, start writing!!!
Some thoughts to think! Here is an exercise for all of you. What is a good musical for a group of 14 women and 8 men? Preferably something ensemble based, or at least with considerable stuff for an ensemble to do. A range of contemporary and classical voices, movers rather than dancers for the most part. An accidentally forwarded e-mail conversation has gotten everyone here thinking and arguing. Yet another thing for us to worry about. I rather enjoy playing this game as long as no one gets too invested in any one choice (because you know it will never be that one). Send some ideas my way and I'll share some of the ones we've been tossing around!
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