Today I was rehearsing and finishing the choreography with both dancers - Abdel (Soldier) and John (Worker). Katherine was here to offer opinion and Sugini was here as DOP to see the choreography so she can work on the visual ideas.
We began todays rehearsals by allowing both dancers a chance to meet each other and chat while they warmed up as this was a good way to get them comfortable with one another.
We then started by focusing on each partner sections we already had choreographed which in total was two. However we hadn't ever had both dancers together to perform these with one another. We allowed them time to mark it out with one another and we even found ways to make these sections flow a lot better changing and adding things as needed.
Once we were all happy with these first two partner sections we then needed to choreograph a final partner section which is the final confrontation of this entire piece before it ends. We ran through some ideas together and I found some videos online which were really influential for the kind of military inspired movement we wanted in this section. Here is one of the main videos that me and the dancers really liked which helped inspire this:
We worked from this to start choreography. I let the dancers lead a lot of the movements here as they were working so well together and bouncing ideas off one another really constructively that I didn't want to break their flow. I allowed them this time and then every so often I would ask to see what they had and they suggest changes and refine it with them each time to try and make it as good as we could. We spent a lot of time on this section but it is really important that we have the final section build up the way we want and successfully.
We then moved on to put the entire dance together from start to finish as if within the space with both dancers. It took a fair few run throughs till everyone was happy but this worked well to again try and make it flow as best as possible and be as emotional intense as we wanted.
Finally we filmed this entire run through with myself talking over it to explain the movement. This allowed the camera crew to work on the visuals from the dance and for the entire crew who aren't here to see it and understand it before the shoot.
We all left very happy today as we feel like we are ready to get into the location and see how this choreography looks there.
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