We gathered in Studio B at Sadler's Wells to meet our choreographers Hannah and Phil. We had met Hannah before during a taster workshop with her in January when she introduced us to Hofesh Shechter's style of choreography. They told us that we would be involved in three sections of the piece, one on our own, one with the children and the finale. After a warm-up with our rehearsal director Simona Scotto we were asked to improvise so that Hannah and Phil could assess our individual style of movement.
We quickly moved on to learning a sequence to be performed in unison which would form part of our section of the piece. Unison always creates a tincture of anxiety among the company. We were then divided into four groups, with each group being given different moves, some improvised some set. We listened to the music which Nitin Sawhney had composed for the piece.
Finally we learnt part of the section that we would be doing with the children. A fairly full morning's work.
In the afternoon we met the children from the Hugh Middleton School who would be performing with us and had a first attempt to join our two parts together. Hannah and Phil were not sure how the parts should link but thought that Hofesh Shechter might have some ideas.
Photo: Gigi Giannella
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