La Vie Boheme Part 1

Today we started work on our next production in double drama which is going to be the rock opera called "Rent". our cast list is:

Mark: Ashley

Roger: Tom

Collins: Toby

Angle: Dan M

Mimi: Meg

Joanne: Freya

Bennie: Carl

Maurine: Lorna

Paul: Dominic

Waiter: Dan S

We started working on choreographing La Vie Boheme and disscussed as a chorus what we would like to do. We decided from the first "la vie boheme" we would create 8 different pose times for each "la vie boheme". We then started a hand movement from the la vie boheme that followed Mark's line "To loving". The hand movement was agreed that we'd start with arms straight out crossed, left above right and then on each step of the best Wed do the following movement:

Cross arms infront

Move L hand to L side

Move R hand to R side

Lay arms on to each other (L on top)

Rotate L arm up

Rotate L arm down

R hand to under chin.

We ran through these movements with and we needed to change our starting poses so that our 8 pose We'd all be sat down. After that we continued with more hand movement following where we left off:

Stretch R arm forward

Grab and pull R back using L arm

Link arms with person next to you

Look Left

Look Right

Unlink arms

We talked what we wanted to do next and as a group we said it was too early for us all to get and start dancing now so we continued hand movements but a more reptative vibe to the next set of movements so we came up with the following choreography:

Raise R shoulder

Raise L shoulder

Look Right

Look Left

Shoulder shrugs

Repeat again doing the opposite direction of what we had just performed.

This was our first Rent lesson as a group we had managed to collectively go through each other's ideas and work a choreography for a section of La Vi Boheme.