Dance Video - Meeting with the Dancer

On Monday 13th of March we arranged a meeting with the Dancer to meet her in person before we actually began rehearsing and working on the piece. We thought this would be a good chance to get to know a bit more about her and let her know a bit more about us and discuss the project and what we were hoping to create. Me and Sugini went to meet her in the early evening at a Coffee Shop. Katherine was unable to join us due to prior commitments. Here is what we talked about in terms of work (as there was a lot of other friendly chatter):

- We began by asking her a bit about the type of dance she does and how trained she is (dance background etc). This was good for us to work out how comfortable she would be in the piece and she seemed a perfect fit. She loved contemporary dance and was highly trained in it which was great as this was the style of dance we wanted to use!

- We then started to talk to her about the project and gave her plenty of opportunity to ask us any questions she wanted to know about the project. We ran through the synopsis of the piece and gave her a paper copy she could keep for reference. She seemed very excited by the concept and was even making suggestions which was very exciting and promising.

- We then went over the influence for our piece and ended up in lengthily discussion about phobias and our own personal experiences. We then showed her the first hand research we had completed with the surveys to try and inspire her in the same way we have been. We also gave her a printed copy of these so she could refer back to these at any time she wanted.

- Next we started discussing the roles we all play with in the crew/team so that our Dancer could get a better idea on who she was working with and how she would be working with each of us. I explained that she will be working most closely with me in the choreography of the dance. We were both very excited for this!

- Lastly we began discussing more details of the shoot days such as the dates and times of all rehearsals and shoot days. We also discussed minor details like what she would like for lunch, eating requirements and expenses that we will pay back for travel etc.

In all this meeting was very successful as our Dancer Grace is lovely and very keen to be involved in the project!