Today's lesson we focused on a new song 'Santa Fe'. In the film, this song's scene takes place inside a train, revolving round the developing relationship between Collins and Angel.
We were put into trios, in which I was placed with Izzy and Sax. We each had a chair we began by sitting stationary on. We then had to think of and perform 3 counts of movement to perform one after the other, overall having 36 moves between us. These movements also involved contact between people next to me on the chairs, for example Izzy manipulates my body by heavily pushing my shoulder so I lean down to the left. I also manipulate her by taking her arm and wrapping it round my shoulder. As we developed more actions we synchronised some movements such as me and Sax stand on the chairs etc.
After this, we paired with another trio and figured out ways we could intertwine with some sections of our movement. We also added in switching seats with the opposite people in various fashions.
The 'train' will be represented by having 2 diagonal parallel rows of chairs down the centre of the stage, where Collins and Angel will sing as they parade down the middle. Our interaction with the opposite row happens when the song climaxes and everyone on the train is practically dancing and going wild. It's very uplifting and lively which we need to convey through our movement and facial expressions. We also agreed on actions we'd do as a group to decorate the scene, e.g we began swaying left to right when Collins says "now you're talking" and continued throughout to reflect the motions to those similar of a train.
For the first time putting it all together, it went really well. Sometimes however there can be too much going on at the same time. Possibly, the beginning could be less manic and calmer, gradually building up in the amount of people performing. We want to show the busyness of the train but we don't want to take much attention away from Angel and Collins.
Santa fe run through
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