Adventures Under the Sea: Kitchen Massacre

Today we choreographed the aforementioned Les Poissons. While I am pretty excited about the actual choreography, today's lesson that I learned was that blocking and formations need to be thought out just as in depth as the choreography. Probably more-so actually. It is definitely helpful to know which cast member is singing which part because, especially for this song, that influences where they stand and when they move greatly. Several cool things that Kivan and I were hopeful about turned into messy blobs because we were trying to switch around where they were standing and moving to match their singing parts. Also, focusing on the kids dancing strengths is an important aspect to play into this because we had two not so strong (but very enthusiastic) dancers on one side together while we had three of the stronger dancers on the other. While the two tried very hard both of them were still a step behind dance wise and it resulted in them being a few steps behind choreography wise. I am very proud of how hard they all worked, but without taking these things into consideration it took a lot longer than we had originally expected. Add that to the fact that we were missing two of our dancers and it just made for a difficult rehearsal. But the good thing is that now we know the importance of these possible issues and will put that into the melting pot for the next time.