Hello All,
I hope that you have enjoyed reading our blogs over the past three weeks of rehearsals. You may have noticed that we have all been quite quiet during the past week, this is due mainly to us working flat out to ensure that the Connections tour is the best that it can be.
The past week we have spent the time, cleaning, polishing, rehearsing and doing some more cleaning and polishing (of the material not the studio!).
It was important for us to spend a lot of time working on Five Dances this week. When we were creating the material for Five Dances way back in June we worked so closely with the musicians that it was essential that we had time to re visit the details that the musicians had given us. We have worked very closely with the score, not only with the different rhythms/patterning of the scores but also with how the notes have been played, how the breath is used, how the chords have been struck amongst various other things. By the last run of the piece yesterday these things are now consistently happening and add an extra layer to the material.
We also worked a lot on Gary’s piece ‘Synapsequence’. Again we had the privilege of working with Ronen, our composer, in the studio. He throughly spoiled us so we’ve worked on really nailing the musical cues that he has set for us. Everytime we run the piece I find something new in it. Now knowing the piece so well I can really start to have fun when doing the piece. As we are such a small company it is important that we each give it our full energy everytime we run it so that it can continue to grow and reach new places.
Steve Denton, our costume designer, came in on Friday to deliver our costumes for Synapsequence. All of the dancers instantly loved them and when we ran the piece in them for the first time we all felt that finally the piece had all come together.
We have a few days off before our performance at Bonnie Bird Theatre. I know that during this time all the dancers will be working through notes/musical cues/maintaining fitness/ squeezing in some rest so that we are in tip top shape for Thursday.
We all feel that both pieces have reached that point where we need to let an audience view them so that we can begin our tour journey. Quite a combination of nerves and excitement in a dancer’s life I think. We feel that the programme is a well balanced one that will challenge the audience but we hope that you find it enjoyable too!
Hopefully we will see you this Thursday then, but if not then at another venue.
Megan