First, Mel and Wesley are going to perform "Murmullo," from the musical, and then immediately after, we're going to get a sneak peek of the award winning choreography from "Qué Bueno, Baila Usted." Take it away. Thank you so much.
The sound came first. Choreographers worked so much with sound. They really worked to create the soundscape that is the rumble.
It's amazing. Anybody else, favorite, vibing with? choreography-wise. Oh, oh, I feel like I really haven't had too many mishaps.
Thank you. Thank you for making this a stage show. choreographer, and designers of a show that I have great admiration for, called "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder." And I knew I wanted to work with that team.
to hope? But where is my brain going? Choreographing the zombified moments that somehow came into my life.And as I said, even zombies go in a herd.
calls his cabinet he watched a lot of the westwing he calls them his cabinet the director Tommy kale the choreographer Andy blanken buer um and the orchestrator Alex LaMore these guys seem to share a brain a brain that moves unbelievably quickly it's like one of those westwing conversations where they're walking and talking at the same time on Fast
I think of old and new. The opening number is I would say 95% original with um the new choreography just layered into it. So it's great because those people that did see their first Broadway show with their grandfather who are now bringing their granddaughter to see their first Broadway show can say the opening number
and he does his own makeup, but then how would you adjust this to be a different cat then? That's an awesome question, choreography right away. Um and a lot of cardio to get ourselves ready to sing a
Meredith that's Meredith monk some people may know her as an amazing choreographer and composer and she comes to the West Coast periodically and I check in with her we sit around the table after the performance and she's surrounded by her acolytes they all have
Now is a very sweet moment of the season because we've done everything: all the physical work, putting together the choreographies, which is a lot of work, all the physical exertion. And now there are barely two months left to polish the details, perfect, and enjoy what it is. In the sport of high-level competition, going for
Which I don't know if every American I've ever encountered has that same sense of personal anguish Choreographer, set designer, costume designer, music director, all people of color because this is what I do.
It's not by choice. Choreography is the art of dancing-- to give it a quick summation.
It's not by choice. choreography is, if you like, enabling us to get found, if that's correct English.
And we did a workshop last summer, a four-week-long workshop where we pretty much staged the whole thing in a rehearsal studio with framework sets and even choreographed numbers and were memorized and all of that.And then did another reading last October of 2012, and then we started rehearsal in December.
yes if right if they don't come to you you seek them out and that's we have um a little bit from the dancer and choreographer Elizabeth streb I don't know whether any of you have seen her work but if you haven't you should go online just Google streb or go across the river to Brooklyn and see one of her shows it's an amazing you will see people diving through Pains of glass
weeks with uh it was a year and a half ago when Shin way was in town the great um Chinese um choreographer who choreographed The U most recent Olympics um he was in residence for 2 weeks and my students got us as a class invited tobe part of his um choreography and we none of us were well most of us were not trained dancers but we actually were
want it to start operating in predictable success immediately and it's put all these resources behind it. The business has got to grow through these natural stages. This choreography of – 'V', 'V O', 'V O P', 'V O P S' -- you can't skip that stuff and just germinate this perfect little business much as everybody would like to. male #13: What do you think are the most critical in that small paradigm? What do you think are the most critical pitfalls that small companies
They choreograph their own movement.
You choreograph . You're a DJ.
is choreographed in some way.
The choreographers you brought in, what was that experience like?
We choreography all the things, then we put it together to show Martin.
The choreography, Joshua Bergasse, Tony winner for "On the Town." And then we've got now, Christian Borle attached, two-time Tony winner as well.
So we have we are able to see a lot of different things on stage. And I think Andy incorporated that but using the original choreography but just making it more I don't know um Andy's sense of time is different than Jillian's. Jillian Lim the original choreographer has I would say you probably speak to it better as a dancer but a longer sense of
chesis choreography your word comes from God is like a circle dance so that's why
So for the choreographies, the Spanish brand is usually the passion with which we swim our choreographies, the innovation, the artistry that we put into them. And in this case, it was very easy because both our coaches, Yema, and I love flamenco.
The choreography was that she had to walk forward and then just stand for a moment.
Beautiful choreographed dance between humans, robots, all networked through these kind of extended networks.
It's not by choice. Is choreography an organized activity?
It's not by choice. The choreographer is, in a way, investigating the place that dancing has in our lives already.
It's not by choice. The choreographer is exhibiting that we are dancers to ourselves.
So choreography was something that was really easy for me when I was growing up.
your choreography because they adore the show.
for choreographic works in our copyright statute in the United States.
I need to choreograph them out of myself.
Do you choreograph as well?
What does the choreograph , the design, the costumes, what does that look like?
And Peter Diamond helped choreograph them with him.
I'm the choreographer of the show.
So the choreography-- Jennifer, question's for you.
Do you align your choreography with the set design?
And the choreographies were top notch.
All the choreography was Sherrie Silver.
And in wedding choreography-- now, obviously, South Asian weddings tend to be very elaborate and very extravagant and just go all out.
And as far as choreography is concerned, first of all, they have like-- isn't it three?
The dance was choreographed to that.
He's a famous choreographer in India.
you're also a choreographer, a novelist, a director, and a professor?
The exquisite choreography that is involved in getting all the right bits in the right places at the right time.
It's all choreographed . Every little step in order.