Today we looked into the technique of chair duets . I worked with Sax and Amber in a trio for a devised chair phrase . We had 18 counts to create different actions around the chairs and every movement had a count. This meant we had to be fast and sharp within our movements to stay in time and look neat. The purpose of this was to create a duet (or trio) for the train in Santa Fe .
We then staged the train in a diagonal line across the stage. I thought this was an effective train with the chairs facing each other . Also I thought the possibility of the chairs duets had a lot of potential to look effective. In my opinion to have all the duets happening at once was too busy and messy and also took focus away from the connection Collins has with Mark , Roger and mostly Angel in Santa Fe . This song is a passionate song about how they want to get away from being judged and city life and irrelevant opinions and how they want a peaceful , relaxed life . My suggestion is that 2 duets are performing the phrases on one side and one group are performing on the other side. When the groups are waiting to perform they should do pedestrian style movements , keeping it simple from 3-5 different actions. Then swap over so the other groups get to perform their duets. Also I think a great way to bring an interactive element to the audience . When people are waiting to get on the train they could be waiting in the audience as if the seating space was the stations platform.
What I found challenging in this rehearsal was performing the song and then also dancing in the narrow space with max. To improve I think we could work with Kat to create some solid 'spontaneous' movements to use on the train . This would help because then we could associate lyrics with certain dance moves and vice versa.
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