Tuesday, February 10, 2009
More on Sandi
From the Earlier this summer, an open studio followed the company's final rehearsal of "In the Groove," a sassy jazz piece by Sandi Scheuber, a California-based choreographer. Scheuber spent a mere 11 hours over a weekend with dancers Lisa Bodwalk, Kristen Brewer, Sadie Carhart, Suzy DiSanto, Bridget Hendrix and Angela LaBorde, in intensive rehearsal sessions. The process of having a choreographer's vision "set" on dancers is demanding, engaging and rewarding work. During a break in the practice, Bodwalk offered to her fellow dancers, "This is really challenging with so many exits and entrances … it is such an adjustment from the practice in the studio to the rehearsal on the stage. There is such a difference between learning the movement and, finally, feeling the movement." At one point during the open studio, Scheuber commented to the audience, "This is the first time that I have seen the dancers smiling and laughing." |
