Putting It Together

 More clean up today and worked on some odds and ends. 

There is a sort of comical section in the piece where Don Juan goes on a bit of an ocean voyage. Once of the nice things about this ballet is that it keeps changing locations and background characters. So it is like reading a bunch of different short stories. You don't hang around long enough in one to get too comfortable. 

Today, we worked on a section where, within 2 minutes, we run into sailors, harem girls, geishas, and a couple of mer-people. The mermaid section had to be reworked because it used to be performed by 2 female dancers. This year, I decided to turn it into 1 mermaid and 1 merman. Why? Because I had a nice male dancer available and I thought, "Why not?" Of course that meant changing the choreography a bit, but that can be fun sometimes.

We had a guest come in and watch. The dancers are used to people dropping in, but I always feel as if I have to entertain them a bit. It all ended up working out for the best because I ended up running the Dream sequence (above). And the dancers need the daily repetition to help with stamina.

Hopefully by the end of the day tomorrow, we will have almost all of Acts 1 and 2 set.