This week’s choreographic process has been different from the others, in the sense that Linda inserted and edited material throughout the entire piece, as opposed to having her own “section” of choreography. I love what she did with it; I feel like the dance is really starting to look like one cohesive work.

One challenge with November Dance is the sheer length of it. I believe it’s about forty minutes long at this point. It can be difficult to rehearse the whole dance because it’s so time consuming. And then there’s the issue of remembering the choreography, especially when it’s changing all the time. The videos are very helpful though. I also liked that I was emailed a hard copy of some of Linda’s notes. I hope that other choreographers will continue to do this.

To help with my memory, I’ve begun keeping a script of sorts for myself, where each time I write out my actions for each time that I’m onstage, in an electronic format so that I can go back and edit it when needed.

I’m a little nervous to see how all this craziness is going to work out, with the different choreographers and composers, but I’m excited to see where this is going to take us.

Ellie’s Script:

• Start onstage, downstage left
  • do 2 small versions of partnering with donna
  • 1 medium version
  • 1 full sized version to take you off stage
• walk on, look at skylar and jen’s duet
  • have a moment with someone where one person looks up, the other looks down
• adagio duet with donna
  • need to review second half!
• walk onstage sometime after charles walks on to look at one of the poppers
  • go to spot (not facing front) and do really small popping
  • start CO combination facing the left side
  • …
  • do CO cheeses around the stage into Kirstie walks
  • animal crawls – end up around center
  • stay still until jen turns around, then run back (don’t lift arms)
  • walk around, making eye contact with people
  • do partnering with skylar
• when jen starts linda’s combo, come on doing my variation
  • have moments with people
  • improv?
  • go off stage right
• going in a circular pattern, do the CO version of duet with skylar twice
  • exit stage right
• come back on to join jen, gina, bianca, sophie for court dance balance
  • keep doing that all the way offstage
• walk on diagonal for linda’s walking combination
  • enter as soon as bianca starts the exit
  • stand in place and watch them leave
  • abby gives “7 8”
  • walk off stage right
• run onto vertical line at the end of laina’s solo
  • gentle nudging
  • after donna runs out, run towards audience
  • in line, whisper “everything”
  • run to back into line
  • run to stage left into line
  • peel off around front of stage and onto the other side, end up facing back
  • fall to side and spoon
  • turn over, then start patting
  • sit up
  • twist onto knees
  • look for partner, but get off balance onto hands and slowly get up
  • go to allie, do face touchy thing
  • move back to corner
  • slide onto floor, do whole partnering section
• break
• slowly walk downstage in horizontal line
  • smile, then fade
  • start jammin, then quiet it down