Day 2: Anything Goes

January 24, 2014

DAY 2: "Anything Goes" and Went Well

Well, today is my second day working with the high schools kids with the choreography for the musical "Anything Goes." Today couldn't have gone any better. I finally had the boys that I needed for the sailors! I was too excited and nervous about teaching these young men how to tap dance! Let me tell you, for learning on their first day, they were not terrible! I was actually impressed! They got the movements down stat and I was able to teach the all I wanted them to learn that day. I have 5 boys so far and I am aiming at getting 10 so I have a good crew of dancing little sailors! The only move that they need the most work on is the entrance onto the stage, but that is because it is a move completely out of their element because these guys have never been exposed to the level of tap as some of the girls. That can be easily taken care.

I had the idea that if some of the cast is not comfortable with doing some of the tap moves, I will have them wearing their show choir shoes while some of the higher level tap dancers wear their tap shoes and they mask the sound of the other dancers. That way it looks like they are tapping out the moves, but really only dancing the movements.

Other than that, we got choreography all the way done until the big dance scene where there is nothing but partner dancing and tapping so it will be something of an adventure for everyone in this situation.