| Forced Improv |
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| Written by Sapphire | |
| Tuesday, 26 April 2005 | |
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Ok - the show this past weekend - the one I was getting the choreography written for - well, I really didn't need to worry as much as I did.............. As it turned out - there are 2 versions of the song I wanted to use and I had the one released in France with a French chorus section. The show organizer had the "US" version which was only song in Arabic and was a rather different arrangement of the song. Neither of us knew of the other song's existence and the running times must have been very close, so it was a very honest mix-up. Well, I found out about this other version as I am there on stage, in front of a decently large audience..... the song starts, sounds a bit odd/different, then the taxim went twice as long as the version I had worked with and I knew I was "in trouble" and that my choreography was probably not going to fit and that I would have to improv. Can you say PANIC!!! grin. I was able to use some of my combos and after the taxim there was a section where I had my back to the audience put I could see the MC/host of the show and I mouthed "it's a different version" with panic most likely all over my face. Well, I pressed on, did this and that (I have no real idea what I did) and then got the thought........... When will it end? How long is the song? How will I know to stop????? grin Fortunately it was close enough in spots that I was able to figure out that it was ending and stopped dancing when the music stopped. And then I tried not to just run off the stage..... see this was the first time I had improv-ed in a show. Yeah, I had done it in class and at home, but never in front of an audience. In some respects, it was good that it was a solo. I am working it up as a duet for an upcoming show, so I guess it could have been worse, grin. |
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