Tango Maureen Part 1

Today we split off into groups to work on seperate numbers so that we can cover a large range of the show.
Toby, Carl, Dom and Dan S went off to create the staging for all three verions of "Christmas bells". Meg and Tom went off to work on "Another day" becaues they wanted to change soem of their movement in the number. Me, Freya and Dan M created "Tango Maureen" in this lesson, Dan create a Tango stylied dance for me and Freya to perform to "Tango Maureen". We started the song half way hrought going from "Where'd you learn to tango", where me and freya meet in the middel and she leads me back and we do a 180 step turn so then leads me the other way back to the centre. On the line "you should try it in heels", Freya lifts her leg and wraps it round me. Then me and frey waltz gown stage, spin then pull back into each other again. We then spilt off till "When your dacing" which is where me and freya hold hands doing an extended leg walk. I then try to turn her freya to which she then turns me, we though this would be humours to our audienece while fitting our characters personaility. After freya turns me we join again stepping foward followed by a rise hip twist. We then split off, moving to the centre of the stage until "I'll have tangoed at all", there is then a loud beat in the music following this in which i stamp my foot throwing my right hand out to pull Freya in. We were then inspired by the movies veion of the dance to Tango Maureen and decided we would copy some of the moves from their dance as well as having others join Me and Freya while dancing.

The groups we dancing are:
Me and Freya
Toby and Dan M
Tom and Meg
Carl and Lorna
Dan S and Dom
The groups were decided bassed aroung realtionships in the show as well as who was comfortable dancing the women steps in the number. The steps for the male side of dance break are two hop steps then step legs apart. Then we turn her out while letting go but then grab her to pull her back in with another turn. Those were the steps that we liked and wanted to borrow from the film but after those steps we are back with our partner in a circle shap around the stage in which we start to travel around the stage using the step left, right, up, up with our legs. Everyone else then leave while me an Freya split off to other sides of the stage to finish singng the song which is the end of our song.
Our target for the next lesson is to polish what we have stage as well as come up with a start to the number for me and Freya.