On Monday 24th January we proceeded with our 3rd scheduled rehearsal. This was booked as a full day from 9:30 till 4:30 in a large studio. Due to multiple issues with dancers being unreliable I have Katherine had to find another replacement to be our Worker as the dancer we worked with on pre-light cancelled due to not being able to be there on the film days. This meant today we were working with a new dancer from scratch again.
We began by myself and Katherine running through all the material we had prepared previously for rehearsals to inspire the John - our new dancer. We then went through our aims for the dance etc and showed him lots of videos we had found of movement we really liked. We then showed him videos we had filmed with the crew and in prior rehearsals. This was to show him the kind of choreograph we had made with the previous dancer and to also show him what the other dancer - Abdel that he will dance with is like movement wise and the kind of dance he is doing.
John is also an actor so we found a good way to work with him was emotional stimuli. We showed him videos of PTSD suffers and then set him task based on this trying to get him to move around the space the way we wanted. We then worked from here using our original choreography but obviously allowing him to put his own test on this which worked really well as it meant we could work through this in good time but also could build upon it constantly trying to improve from the choreography we had before.
I really enjoyed today as myself and John were able to work closely together on marking out, setting and improving the choreography for the entire piece, besides one final partner element which we are saving for when we have the joint rehearsal with both dancers later in the week.
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