This is the last day of our residency. The morning started with revisiting the dreaded unison sequences. We seemed to have the first one fairly well under our belts but the final one had gone a little bit out of sync. We worked on this and listened to the music again and again so that we became familiar with the starting music cue.
We then turned to the children's section with Hannah and Phil taking the children's parts to our great delight.
In the afternoon we moved to the Ashton studio which is the same size as the main stage. The children from the Hugh Middleton School who had not been selected for the residency had been working with our friend Cheryl McChesney and we loved watching the piece that she had created with them.
We then performed our sections of Sum of Parts to an invited audience including the children and of course Hofesh Shechter. It seemed to go reasonably well. When the audience left Hofesh had some notes, mostly on timing and spacing.
Here's hoping we can keep it all together and do justice to what Hannah and Phil have created for us during this very exciting and rewarding week.
Photo: Gigi Giannella
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