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Having been allowed to participate in The Great Puppet Musical last year, I was really excited to join the cast of The Great Puppet Bollywood Extravaganza. I mean, more of the same, great puppety goodness, but now with the added bonus of Bollywood. Seriously... two great tastes that go great together, right?
The added bonus of expanding the original show with a new, cultural seasoning is that it becomes new to those of us who have done this before. We've got new challenges to face, and we get to learn whole new sets of skills.
One thing that we've been focusing on ALOT more with TGPBE than we did with TGPM is the dancing. Sure, there was dancing in TGPM, but with TGPBE, we've got a more distinctly stylized type of dance, and it's a style that none of us is all that familliar with, so we have to work it a little bit more.
Luckily for all of YOU, I pulled out the trusty iPhone during rehearsal last week, and captured a little bit of dance rehearsal. We were focusing on doing two person dance. Not just straight up dancing, though... more like 'scene as interpreted by dance.' So there's more communication between the dancers THROUGH dance, than just two dancers doing the same or complimentary things. Dance as a form of communication is actually really cool, especially when one of the dancers is a puppet.
But enough of my telling, let's have Jeff and Alan show you...
And don't worry, we're not laughing AT them, we're laughing at how awesome this whole process is, and at how much fun we're having doing it.
The added bonus of expanding the original show with a new, cultural seasoning is that it becomes new to those of us who have done this before. We've got new challenges to face, and we get to learn whole new sets of skills.
One thing that we've been focusing on ALOT more with TGPBE than we did with TGPM is the dancing. Sure, there was dancing in TGPM, but with TGPBE, we've got a more distinctly stylized type of dance, and it's a style that none of us is all that familliar with, so we have to work it a little bit more.
Luckily for all of YOU, I pulled out the trusty iPhone during rehearsal last week, and captured a little bit of dance rehearsal. We were focusing on doing two person dance. Not just straight up dancing, though... more like 'scene as interpreted by dance.' So there's more communication between the dancers THROUGH dance, than just two dancers doing the same or complimentary things. Dance as a form of communication is actually really cool, especially when one of the dancers is a puppet.
But enough of my telling, let's have Jeff and Alan show you...
And don't worry, we're not laughing AT them, we're laughing at how awesome this whole process is, and at how much fun we're having doing it.
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