23/11/08 - Duets and Quartets

Leeds - LA Fitness

Present:
Heather Jackson
Bernice McBride
Eilidh Newton
Jo Small
Erica Wilson


The rehearsal began with a review of the Ganesha dance we performed as part of Bollywood Tyohar during the summer. Erica played the BT DVD on her laptop in the studio. Zoobin recapped the Ganesha story and linked some of his movements in the dance to elements of the story.
After looking at the DVD, Zoobin led a warm up and advised us that we should all be practicing our contractions to get fitter!
Eilidh and Jo choreographed a Duet while myself, Erica and Heather practiced our Quartet from last week.

EPIC FAIL: due to unforseen circumstances (my ineptitude and inability to operate my own phone) the choreography learned last Sunday was NOT disseminated to the other three members of the Quartet!

The Quartet was understandably a little sketchy after the epic fail on my part, and we had to re-watch the video to jog our memories. Thankfully Erica took the video and will (hopefully) be able to email it to us all. We made a couple of slight changes to the choreography throughout the course of the rehearsal which we will have to clear with Holly at our next meeting on 30th November. We also put counts on some of the faster sections which seemed to make them much easier to execute.

Eilidh and Jo performed their duet for the group (which was great) and Zoobin gave some input then Heather, Erica and I performed the new-improved Quartet piece which Eilidh recorded.

We all then attempted to remember the Ganesha choreography from BT. Jo and Eilidh did not perform this dance for BT, but were familiar with most sections, the rest of us needed to refresh our memories. Eilidh recorded this too to help with remembering.

We decided to book our tickets straight after the rehearsal (I did! So did Eilidh and Jo!) so we all knew we would be on the same flight.

Actions!
Everyone is to book their flights.
Zoobin will email us all the order of the show outlined during rehearsal
everyone must work on their CONTRACTIONS!


Ooh! And look! Annabeth showed me how to put the video on!
Study hard girls!