7/12/08 - Costume Crises

Holistica - 3-6pm

Holly Cassidy

Marianna Hitiris

Heather Jackson

Bernice McBride

Eilidh Newton

Jo Small

Erica Wilson

Hurray! We are all finally rehearsing together! And a great rehearsal it was too - we all worked on the Ganesha Dance, we are all quite confident with all the choreography for this now and it's just a matter of polishing, we will have time for this when Zoobin gets back.

We took about 45 minutes out of the rehearsal to all practice our solos, duets etc. The Quartet people have added counts to help with the speed and togetherness of the piece. We are finding this way easier than before. We have also created running order:

Eilidh & Jo - Duet (Jo remaining onstage with the violin)

Holly & Marianna - Duet (Holly remaining onstage ready for quartet)

Bernice, Erica & Heather - Trio (None exit, join Holly immediately for quartet)

Bernice, Erica, Heather & Holly - Quartet.

Ganesha dance.

Eilidh timed us with this running order and for all 4 pieces it took around 5 minutes. This will fit perfectly with Jo's 4 minute violin piece and with the Ganesha dance (7+minutes) we'll easily fill our 10 minute slot.

The only issue we need to address now is the matter of costumes. I got the saris from Mrs Basan this week and took them to Holistica. They were pretty big, but should be easy to adjust. Only problem now is getting tops to match. A few people returned their white tops to Zoobin after Bollywood Tyohar and we need to retreive them somehow. Eilidh texted Zoobin during the rehearsal to see if we could collect them from storage but I don't think this is an option. Mrs Basan has one white and gold top, which I could possibly collect, time permitting. We've all got to get lots of stuff together before the dress rehearsal next week...

30/11/08 - The elephants are losing their heads!

LA Fitness 12-2.00pm

Holly Cassidy
Marianna Hitiris
Heather Jackson
Bernice McBride
Eilidh Newton
Erica Wilson

Today we mainly practised the Ganesha Dance. Marianna hadn't done it before so we ran through it and practiced it a few times. We're all getting far more confident with the choreography by the end of the session. We also worked on a trio (Erica, Heather & me) and Marianna and Holly's duet. Taking the cue from Jo and Eilidh's magnificent rendering of the elephant trunk in their duet, we decided to focus the choreography of the trio on the hunting and beheading of an elephant in the Ganesha myth! Early experimentation resulted in Erica and I savagely 'beheading' Heather and carrying the 'corpse' offstage! Though a highly amusing concept, we decided that this would create more hilarity than anything else (plus the Ganas didn't carry the body away - they only wanted the head) so Erica and I had to settle for abandoning Heather's bleeding corpse onstage! Hahah!

Actions for this week are to contact Zoobin re Holly's plane tickets and the running order of the show and for me to pick up the costumes from Mrs Basan and re arrange the 14th Dec rehearsal for a different date.