Spacing rehearsals on stage are a very important part of the performance process so that we, as dancers, can reconfigure our movement patterns to the stage space before adding costumes and lighting.
I was thankful that I remembered how cold such a large theatre could get and brought lots of layers to warm up in. Thankfully warming up did not take much time as we run through the dance several times in order to work out pathways and patterns of movement to more appropriately fit this space.
Being that it was our first time on stage this season I was very impressed how little effort we had to put in when it came to changes of staging. This is probably due to the fact that our dance studios are now so much larger in our new space, so we did not have that much extra length to add to our previous movement patterns.
Please come see what we have been working on over this semester in Dance 2010: TranscenDANCE on December 3-5. It will be a very entertaining concert!
--Colleen Weiher (BFA Dance Performance Major)
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