Rehearsal Reviews

These are the notes taken from rehearsals during the project. I have bolded areas of importance for me personally. Photos taken during rehearsals and devising.

12/01/10

First rehearsal with completed script.
- must be completely sure with the script otherwise script must be altered
- new song for rainbow crow, new tune, learn song know it
- main tain that energy
- try not to adlib

Personal improvements
As this was one of the last rehearsals it starts become very tense and with the confusion of the script and your own way of devising the intial narration one must be sure which one to go with.
Other circumstances this rehearsal lead to change of certain circumstances leading to new castings more roles. Therefore learning narration of rainbow crow personally I would prefer to go by the script seeing as this has been so late in the day.



5/01/10 - Shown to Chris L/loraine/Chris W
- Learn song completely
- neutral stance
- Always energy
- take the risk - always maintain the focus on even off stage
- No talking off stage
- Sort how the apple will be placed on and off stage
- Snake Link
- Coyote make more of a sound
- add a sound or visual for "quickly animals are coming"
- marry was the narration is to the physicality
- bring back the music
- narration for eagle
- horse spacing - sort narration overal for pigian warrior
- use the costume to house the snow fabric
- opening the clouds sound effect
- work together for billowing clouds
- narrator talk out to audience- develop echo in well
- make more of losing tail
- spin weasel
- buffalo music
- narration music

Personal Improvements
Continue to develop animal physicality and maintain both on and off stage,
aware of spacing throughout as narrator and as animal
more energy throughout.



15/12/09 - Shown to loraine

- Sort out the fabric too messy
- Further Chris Walker animal work
- Narrators in cue with eachother, no gaps, more narration
- Music for Coyote and the snake - Pick up Pace
- Narrators share with audience, move away from the side
- Deal with the singing of rainbrow crow- Discuss with Chris, animals react with rainbow crow
- Put more focus on Lakota and the Eagle
- Upstaging each other/ Notice Blocking!
- Woman in the sky
- More humour in the rabbit loosing tail
- Buffalo too many, 3 People not needed- More music in Buffalo
- Can musicians hand headdresses rather then characters
- Get sticks off stage, clean up
- Need music for returning storyteller

Personal Improvements from rehearsal
- Need to become more confident with the narration
- Aware of staging avoid blocking
- narrators sing with rainbow crow
- clearing stage correctly
- making rabbit more humourous
- Overal further animal work


Nov- Dec 09 Shown to Chris W

- fluidity with the warriors,
- too one sided on stage
- get to position early no fidgiting
- one movement
- wings need to be on time
- set a posture
- need to be on cue
- more music
- storyteller more music/magic
- still too still(hummingbird)
- Tree one movement
- music needed
- oragnise thistle bush
- more movement
- don't restrict arms too much
- flowers set pattern,simple routine
- work on coyote movement
- more music/ no dead noise
- change the levels between narrators and animals
- bring the clouds
- Use the space