March 25 2012

Rehearsal for Romance 2012. Photo by Manny Rotenburg. Dancers: Janica Smith and Robert Ryan. As the show was about romance, we decided to include the brief pas de deux for Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream for a few reasons.

Rehearsal for Romance 2012. Photo by Manny Rotenburg. Dancers: Janica Smith and Robert Ryan. A chief reason was that at the beginning of the season, we were considering remounting the entire ballet for a spring show. Unfortunately, my bout with kidney stones kept me out of rehearsals for about a week and a half. So we had to change plans. However, we still wanted to dip our feet into Midsummerland.

Rehearsal for Romance 2012. Photo by Manny Rotenburg. Dancers: Janica Smith and Robert Ryan. Another reason is that I have always been fond of my use of the interpolated music I chose for this pas de deux. There is no actual score for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Only incidental music that Mendelssohn wrote for a production of the play. So when you choreograph the ballet, you need to decide not just what you are going to keep, but what order you are going to put it in and if you are going to add anything to it.

Daily Stuff- It is threatening to rain tonight and tomorrow. We shall see.